root
root 英 [ru:t] 美 [rut, rʊt]
n. 根;根源;
进行时:rooting 过去式:rooted 过去分词:rooted 第三人称单数:roots 名词复数:roots
- The root is the part of the plant that's underground. Dig up a potato, and you will unearth its roots. Just pull them off before you cook the potato.
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- n. 根;根源;
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1. deep spreading roots
扎得很深的根
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2. Tree roots can cause damage to buildings.
树根会给大楼造成损害。
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3. Money is said to be the root of all evil.
有人说钱和爱钱是万恶之源。
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4. I'm proud of my Italian roots.
我为我的意大利血统感到骄傲。
- root (n.) "underground part of a plant," late Old English rot, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse rot "root," figuratively "cause, origin," from Proto-Germanic *wrot (source also of Old English wyrt "root, herb, plant," Old High German wurz, German Wurz "a plant," Gothic waurts "a root," with characteristic Scandinavian loss of -w- before -r-), from PIE root *wrad- "branch, root." The usual Old English words for "root" were wyrttruma and wyrtwala.
- root (v.1) "dig with the snout," 1530s, from Middle English wroten "dig with the snout," from Old English wrotan "to root up," from Proto-Germanic *wrot- (source also of Old Norse rota, Swedish rota "to dig out, root," Middle Low German wroten, Middle Dutch wroeten, Old High German ruozian "to plow up"), from PIE root *wrod- "to root, gnaw."
- root (v.2) "cheer, support," 1889, American English, originally in a baseball context, probably from root (v.1) via intermediate sense of "study, work hard" (1856). Related: Rooted; rooting.
- root (v.3) "fix or firmly attach by roots" (often figurative), early 13c., from root (n.); sense of "pull up by the root" (now usually uproot) also is from late 14c. Related: Rooted; rooting.
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