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If something burgeons, it grows or develops quickly. The old picture behind the word is a bud pushing out into a shoot. People still sometimes use it of plants after rain, but today it is more often a picture-word for things that are not plants: a small shop that burgeons into a chain, a city that burgeons as people move in, an interest that burgeons overnight. You will very often see burgeoning in front of a noun: a burgeoning film industry, a burgeoning love of cooking. It is not a street word; it sounds a little , the kind of word a newspaper or a teacher might choose. It almost always suggests lively, fast growth, not something slow and careful.
蓬勃發展;急速成長(植物也可說萌芽)
組成From Middle English burjon / burjoun, “a shoot, a bud”, from Anglo-Norman burjun, from an old Frankish word for a sprout or offshoot, going back to a Germanic verb meaning “to raise up”. The verb in English comes by the same path, from Old French borjoner / burjuner, “to bud”.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
burgeonnoun詞源 1/ˈbɜː.d͡ʒən/
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obsoleteA bud, sprout, or shoot.
burgeonverb詞源 2/ˈbɜː.d͡ʒən/
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To grow or expand.
- Gradually, the town burgeoned into a thriving city.
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To swell to the point of bursting.
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archaicOf plants, to bloom, bud.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。