英语释义

1. the usually underground part of a seed plant body that originates usually from the hypocotyl, functions as an organ of absorption, aeration, and food storage or as a means of anchorage and support, and differs from a stem especially in lacking nodes, buds, and leaves

2. any subterranean plant part (such as a true root or a bulb, tuber, rootstock, or other modified stem) especially when fleshy and edible

3. the part of a tooth within the socket also any of the processes into which this part is often divided — see tooth illustration

4. the enlarged basal part of a hair within the skin

5. the proximal end of a nerve

6. the part of an organ or physical structure by which it is attached to the body
the root of the tongue

7. something that is an origin or source (as of a condition or quality)
the love of money is the root of all evil
— 1 Timothy 6:10 (King James Version)

8. one or more progenitors of a group of descendants —usually used in plural

9. an underlying support basis

10. the essential core heart —often used in the phrase at root

11. close relationship with an environment tie —usually used in plural
they put down roots in a farming community

12. a quantity taken an indicated number of times as an equal factor
2 is a fourth root of 16

13. a number that reduces an equation to an identity when it is substituted for one variable

14. the lower part base

15. the part by which an object is attached to something else

16. the simple element inferred as the basis from which a word is derived by phonetic change or by extension (such as composition or the addition of an affix or inflectional ending)

17. the lowest tone of a chord (such as C in a C minor chord) when the tones are arranged in ascending thirds

18. a level of access to a computer system that allows complete access to files on the system and complete control over the system's functions —usually used before another noun
root userroot directory

19. to furnish with or enable to develop roots

20. to fix or implant by or as if by roots

21. to remove altogether by or as if by pulling out by the roots —usually used with out
root out dissenters

22. to grow roots or take root

23. to have an origin or base

24. to turn up or dig in the earth with the snout grub

25. to poke or dig about

26. to turn over, dig up, or discover and bring to light —usually used with out
root out the cause of the problem

27. to noisily applaud or encourage a contestant or team cheer

28. to wish the success of or lend support to someone or something

29. Elihu 1845–1937 American lawyer and statesman

30. the part of a plant that grows underground, gets water from the ground, and holds the plant in place

31. the part of a tooth, hair, fingernail, etc., that is attached to the body

32. the cause or source of something

33. the leafless underground part of a plant that absorbs water and minerals, stores food, and holds the plant in place

34. the part of something by which it is attached
The tooth's root is anchored in bone.

35. source sense 1
Money is the root of all evil.

36. the ancestors of a person or group of people

37. a special relationship
They have roots in the community.

38. core entry 1 sense 3
We finally got to the root of the problem.

39. a word or part of a word from which other words are obtained by adding a prefix or suffix
The word “hold” is the root of “holder.”

40. to form or cause to form roots
The seedlings rooted quickly.

41. to attach by or as if by roots
He was rooted to his chair.

42. to remove by or as if by pulling out the roots
The mayor promised to root out crime.

43. to turn up or dig with or as if with the snout
She rooted in her desk for a pen.

44. to wish for the success of
We're rooting for the underdog.

45. the usually underground part of a seed plant body that functions as an organ of absorption, aeration, and food storage or as a means of anchorage and support and that differs from a stem especially in lacking nodes, buds, and leaves

46. any subterranean plant part (as a true root or a bulb, tuber, rootstock, or other modified stem) especially when fleshy and edible

47. the part of a tooth within the socket

48. any of the processes into which the root of a tooth is often divided

49. the enlarged basal part of a hair within the skin — called also hair root

50. the proximal end of a nerve especially one or more bundles of nerve fibers joining the cranial and spinal nerves with their respective nuclei and columns of gray matter — see dorsal root, ventral root

51. descendant

52. per stirpes

片语

baseless无根据的；无基础的

unwarranted无根据的；无保证的

英汉例句

• When we criticize American rootlessness we tend to forget that it is a result of ideals we admire, namely, social mobility and optimism about the future.

  我们对美国人的无根性指指点点的时候，常常忘了这恰是我们的理想，即社会流动和对未来的乐观带来的结果。

• I had no feeling of rootlessness because each time I moved, the next job offered a higher status or salary.

  每当我到另一个地方的时候，也没有毫无依托的感觉，我的下一份工作总有更好的职位和收入。

• The smiling face of rootlessness are the 300,000 French expats who line their pockets in the City of London when the stock market booms.

  面带微笑的漂泊者是30万流亡的法国人，当股市大涨时，他们在伦敦市大发横财。

• In these battles, particular as they are to different national political arenas, liberalism can throw off the caricature of unpatriotic rootlessness and self-righteous political correctness.

  在这些战斗中(不同国家政治舞台上的战斗都各有不同)，自由主义可以摆脱那种冷言热语——讽刺自由主义者不爱国、没有根、坚持自以为是的政治正确。

• The incapacity to overcome this rootlessness has urgently prompted me to rediscover and 「re-define」 our 「roots and origins」 today.

  对这种毫无根基感的无能为力迫使我对现时「根源」的重新发现和重新定义。