flourishing的意思|flourishing的解释-里氏词典

flourishing ['flɚɪʃ]

a. 繁茂的, 隆盛的, 繁荣的

Our village has blossomed into a flourishing town.
我们的村子已发展成繁荣的市镇。
The period during which a person, school, or movement was most active or flourishing.
繁盛期一个人、一所学校或一种运动最具活力或最繁荣的时期
An anonymous poet who flourished in the tenth century; painted when Impressionism was flourishing.
一位活跃在10世纪的无名诗人；在印象主义最蓬勃的时期作画

flourishing

[ adj ]
very lively and profitable
<adj.all>
flourishing businessesa palmy time for stockbrokers
a prosperous new business
doing a roaring trade
a thriving tourist center
did a thriving business in orchids

Flourish \Flour"ish\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flourished}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Flourishing}.] [OE. florisshen, flurisshen, OF.
flurir, F. fleurir, fr. L. florere to bloom, fr. flos,
floris, flower. See {Flower}, and {-ish}.]
1. To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy
growing plant; a thrive.

A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . .
soil. --Bp. Horne.

2. To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort,
happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be
prominent and influental; specifically, of authors,
painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or
production.

When all the workers of iniquity do flourish. --Ps.
xcii 7

Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that
by the means of their wickedness. --Nelson.

We say
Of those that held their heads above the crowd,
They flourished then or then. --Tennyson.

3. To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures
and lofty expressions; to be flowery.

They dilate . . . and flourish long on little
incidents. --J. Watts.

4. To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements,
by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with
fantastic and irregular motion.

Impetuous spread
The stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head.
--Pope.

5. To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write
graceful, decorative figures.

6. To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by
way of ornament or prelude.

Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus? --Shak.

7. To boast; to vaunt; to brag. --Pope.

The Internet itself is the network of computers that exchanges information by using the same interconnection rules. The Web has a flourishing 'commercial district' as hundreds of companies begin to promote their wares over the Internet's global links.
We're not too worried about the kind of patriotism flourishing in the land this weekend.
Komatsu cited increased public-works spending in Japan and "flourishing private-sector housing investment."
Venezuelan government ministers present a staggering amount of macroeconomic statistics to show that Venezuela's private sector is flourishing, without realizing that a free market cannot flourish under the central government's planning.
A flourishing black market in undersized scallops, illegal fishing in spawning areas and allegations that some trawlers carry nets with illegally tight mesh.
And Koranic courses and religious schools are flourishing, turning out what one newspaper described as "an inflation of imams."
The embargo has not only decimated a once flourishing bilateral trade but hindered passage along the Danube and cut income from transit traffic to and from southern Europe and the Middle East.
Although no direct trade links exist between Taiwan and China, the Nationalists tolerate a flourishing trade through third countries that could reach a record $2 billion this year.
It has a flourishing underground economy in marijuana.
However, that has brought about a flourishing black market, much of it centered in this Mediterranean port of 600,000 people 360 miles east of the capital, Tripoli.
One of the most flourishing minor industries of the world is known as business ethics.
Recently, the country has witnessed a flourishing of illegal publishing houses.
The result: Britain now has flourishing colour television and car industries. True, sad things have happened to British companies in those industries.
WHEN INVESTORS start to get interested in penny shares, that is often the sign of a flourishing bull market.
His security business is "not flourishing" because potential clients are avoiding it, he said.
The sands were the center of a flourishing salt trade many years ago.
These and other figures from a 62,000-household survey conducted by the Census Bureau describe a flourishing economy in which the fruits of prosperity aren't equally shared by all Americans.
He quit two months ago to join Algeria's flourishing underground economy.
Glass, trash and toppled light poles littered the streets of Panama City, a flourishing international banking center just two years ago.
Low-cost private schools that cater to blacks are flourishing as many black parents, dissatisfied with public education, seek affordable alternatives.
Regionalism is not the only force that keeps outer-island music from flourishing away from home.
A second purpose is to beat down prices on the flourishing black market.
Joe Belew, president of the bankers group, said the poll suggests "such legislation is unneccessary" and indicates check-cashing services are not flourishing because banks have shunned poor customers.
"Let's make sure this revolution keeps on flourishing, but let us not allow anyone to smear dirt on its peaceful face," playwright Vaclav Havel said, speaking from a tiny balcony above a sea of faces and flags filled like sails in the frosty wind.
You have to make a large value judgment about what life 'should' be like, and about our model of what a successful, flourishing person is, before you can claim that Prozac provides it.
Marriott Corp., deciding to concentrate on its flourishing hotel and service divisions, announced a restructuring that calls for the sale of its weaker fast-food and family restaurant divisions.
A Texas Air spokesman declines to say what income, if any, the parent company is drawing from this flourishing new unit.
Unemployment, even when the economy is flourishing, is disproportionately high among Britain's ethnic minority communities; the recession is aggravating the problem and worsening other social tensions.
Italy, meanwhile, has established a flourishing test-tube baby program despite the Roman Catholic Church's objections to artificial reproduction.
But this time, with commercial aircraft orders flourishing and military markets drying up, Lockheed is sure to resist signing a pact that's as generous as what Boeing can afford.

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