sprouts

英 [spraʊts]

美 [spraʊts]

v.  发芽; 抽芽; 抽条; 生长; 出现; (使)涌现出; 长出(某物); (某物)长出
n.  苗; 新芽; 嫩枝
sprout的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB (植物、蔬菜、种子)发芽，抽芽，长芽
  When plants, vegetables, or seedssprout, they produce new shoots or leaves.
  1. It only takes a few days for beans to sprout.
     豆子只要几天就能发芽。
• VERB (叶子、芽或植株)生长
  When leaves, shoots, or plantssproutsomewhere, they grow there.
  1. Leaf-shoots were beginning to sprout on the hawthorn...
     山楂树上开始长出叶芽。
  2. Birch trees sprouted from the rubble and grew into a dense young wood.
     桦树从瓦砾中长出来，形成了一片茂密的新林。
• VERB 使生长
  If a garden or other area of landsproutsplants, they start to grow there.
  1. ...the garden, which had had time to sprout a shocking collection of weeds.
     久而久之便野草丛生的花园
• VERB (出于食用目的)使(豆子、种子等)发芽
  If yousproutbeans or seeds, you make them grow small shoots before eating them. You usually do this by soaking them in water.
  1. When you sprout seeds their nutritional content increases...
     让种子发芽后，其营养含量会提高。
  2. Sprouted beans only need to be cooked for 1-2 minutes.
     豆芽只需烹炒一到两分钟。
• V-ERG (毛发等)生长，长出
  If something such as hairsproutsfrom a person or animal, or if theysproutit, it grows on them.
  1. She is very old now, with little, round, wire-rimmed glasses and whiskers sprouting from her chin...
     她现在很老了，戴着圆圆的金属架小眼镜，下巴上还长出了胡须。
  2. As well as sprouting a few grey hairs, Kevin seems to be suffering the occasional memory loss.
     除长出了些许白发外，凯文似乎还患上了间歇性失忆。
• V-ERG 大量涌现;迅猛发展
  If a large number of things have appeared or developed somewhere, you can say that theyhave sproutedthere or that the placehas sproutedthem.
  1. More than a million satellite dishes have sprouted on homes across the country...
     100 多万个卫星接收器迅速出现在了全国各地的家庭用户中。
  2. Since its first shop was opened in 1976, it has sprouted outlets in 39 countries.
     自从 1976 年开设第一家店以来，它已经在 39 个国家里开设了大量分店。
• 抱子甘蓝;球芽甘蓝
  Sproutsare vegetables that look like tiny cabbages. They are also calledbrussels sprouts.
• N-COUNT 新芽;子苗;嫩枝
  Sproutsare new shoots on plants.
  1. After eleven days of growth the number of sprouts was counted.
     经过11天的生长后，对新芽的数量进行了计数。

双语例句

• Enough with the broccoli and Brussels sprouts, Milloy wrote this week in the Washington Post.
  米洛伊本周在《华盛顿邮报》中写道：关于吃花椰菜和球芽甘蓝的宣传，我们已经听够了。
• She threw the bean sprouts into the frying pan.
  她丢了些豆芽在锅内。
• No cabbages, lettuce leaves or bean sprouts, no celery or root vegetables.
  也不吃卷心菜、莴苣叶、豆芽、芹菜和块根类蔬菜（萝卜）。
• As your choice of meat is cooking, add the bean sprouts, peppers, onions, and garlic.
  当肉炒熟之后，加入豆芽，辣椒和洋葱还有蒜一起翻炒；
• He suggests that the bushes are being cloned from sprouts of other bushes.
  他提出这些灌木从其它的灌木的牙克隆而来。
• Well, I like pancakes and alfalfa sprouts and lemonade.
  呃，我喜欢薄烤饼，苜蓿芽，柠檬水。
• That's because after the tree is cut, there will be new sprouts coming out.
  因为这种树被砍了之后，很快就会长出新的枝条来。
• If the sprouts smell, or taste, mouldy or acidic do not eat them.
  如果甘蓝闻着或吃着有霉味或酸味，请勿食用。
• Brussels sprouts with mustard, apples and caraway.
  芥末苹果、抱子甘蓝和香芹。
• They are preparing to begin studies in Japan to test broccoli sprouts in people infected with Helicobacter pylori.
  他们正准备在日本进行研究，来检验椰菜芽对感染了幽门螺旋菌的病人所起的作用。