词为我用 - burgeon

词汇释义

burgeon UK  /ˈbɜː.dʒən/ US  /ˈbɝː.dʒən/TEM8TOFEL    GRE

verb, If something burgeons, it grows or develops rapidly. 迅速生长，快速发展

外刊例句

1. But as Web pages burgeon with ever more complex designs and fancy features to show information, writers of HTML are starting to feel as if they are trying to do calculus with an abacus.(The Economist)

2. Oilfield-service companies started to burgeon in the 1980s when big companies thought it wise to outsource drilling and other aspects of production.(The Economist)

3. Expect the black market to burgeon again.(The Economist)

4. The last American combat troops departed in December, 2011, leaving behind an array of unresolved problems that, after a period of relative calm, have begun to burgeon again.(The New Yorker)

5. Flannery relates horrifying tales of the staggering amount of gelatinous, infrastructure-clogging tonnage currently in the ocean because over-fishing and other ecological changes have allowed jellyfish populations to burgeon out of control.(The New Yorker)

6. "And when we got there, it was just starting to burgeon".(The New York Times)

词汇搭配

start, begin to burgeon

词汇来源

early 14c., "grow, sprout, blossom," from Anglo-French burjuner, Old French borjoner "to bud, sprout," from borjon "a bud, shoot, pimple" (Modern French bourgeon), a word of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *burrionem (nominative *burrio), from Late Latin burra "flock of wool," itself of uncertain origin. Some sources (Kitchin, Gamillscheg) say either the French word or the Vulgar Latin one is from Germanic (compare Old High German burjan "to raise, lift up"). The English verb is perhaps instead a native development from burjoin (n.) "a bud" (c. 1300), from Old French. According to OED, it died out by 18c. except as a technical term in gardening, and was revived early 19c. in poetry. Related: Burgeoned; burgeoning.

近义词

accelerate, accumulate, appreciate, balloon, boom, build up, climb, enlarge, escalate, expand, gain, increase, mount, multiply, mushroom, proliferate, rise, roll up, snowball

反义词

contract, decrease, diminish, dwindle, lessen, recede, wane

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