| 单词 | nourish |
| 释义 | nour·ish transitive verb 1. a. < to save my boy, to nourish and bring him up — Shakespeare > < it was for Chaucer, nourished in other literatures … to make rapid advances on the road of English poetry — H.S.Bennett > < nourished in the old bootlegger days … demanded his cut from every pie — George Carter > b. archaic < episcopal visitors were recording … that it was scandalous to nourish hunting dogs in monasteries — G.G.Coulton > 2. < has nourished in us the dream of liberty — Liston Pope > < no occasions to exercise the feelings nor nourish passion — L.O.Coxe > 3. < wish she would not see fit to sit down and nourish her baby in my poor old bachelor drawing room — H.G.Wells > 4. a. < the human body can be nourished on any food — R.W.Emerson > < the rain which nourished the bushes — Laura Krey > < the heart speeds up and the blood pressure rises to better nourish the tissues — H.G.Armstrong > b. < the glow of a fire nourished by partially dried logs — P.A.Talbot > < this great work nourished American lawyers — Howard M. Jones > c. < thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen … and there will I nourish thee — Gen. 45:10-11 (Authorized Version) > < welfare committees whose task it is to nourish the social life of old people — M.A.Abrams > < their profits flow into the underworld and nourish other criminal activities — Beverly Smith > 5. a. archaic < nourished two locks, which graceful hung behind in equal curls — Alexander Pope > b. archaic < it's a' for the apple he'll nourish the tree — Robert Burns > 6. < nourished the hope that something might come of it later — L.C.Douglas > < nourish a shrewd distrust of anybody who looked like a big tycoon — F.L.Allen > < for many years had nourished the project of a trip abroad > intransitive verb 1. obsolete < grains and roots nourish more than the leaves — Francis Bacon > 2. < thrives and nourishes where poverty prevails — M.O.Purcell > Synonyms: see feed |
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