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N-VAR
籽;種子
A seed is the small, hard part of a plant from which a new plant grows.
例句
...a packet of cabbage seed...
一包卷心菜籽
I sow the seed in pots of soil-based compost.
我把種子種在幾盆摻有堆肥的土里。
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VERB
在(地里)播種
If you seed a piece of land, you plant seeds in it.
例句
Men mowed the wide lawns and seeded them...
人們割了大片草地的草，然后在上面播種。
The primroses should begin to seed themselves down the steep hillside.
報春花應該開始沿著陡峭的山坡一路撒播種子了。
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N-PLURAL
(感情、過程的)起源，開端，萌芽
You can refer to the seeds of something when you want to talk about the beginning of a feeling or process that gradually develops and becomes stronger or more important.
例句
He raised questions meant to plant seeds of doubts in the minds of jurors...
他提出幾個問題意欲引起陪審員的疑心。
He considered that there were, in these developments, the seeds of a new moral order.
他認為在這些事態發展中包蘊著一種新的道德秩序的萌芽。
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N-COUNT
(網球、羽毛球等體育項目中的)種子選手
In sports such as tennis or badminton, a seed is a player who has been ranked according to his or her ability.
例句
...Pete Sampras, Wimbledon's top seed and the world No.1...
皮特·桑普拉斯，溫布爾登網球錦標賽的頭號種子，世界排名第一
In the final Capriati, the third seed, defeated Katerina Maleeva.
在決賽中，三號種子選手卡普里亞蒂擊敗了凱特林娜·馬莉娃。
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VERB
將(選手或參賽隊)排列名次
When a player or a team is seeded in a sports competition, they are ranked according to their ability.
例句
In the UEFA Cup the top 16 sides are seeded for the first round...
在歐洲聯盟杯比賽中，排名前 16 位的球隊已按位次進入首輪。
He is seeded second, behind Brad Beven...
他被列為二號種子選手，位居布拉德·貝文之后。
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PHRASE
開花結籽
If vegetable plants go to seed or run to seed, they produce flowers and seeds as well as leaves.
例句
If unused, winter radishes run to seed in spring.
如果不去動的話，冬蘿卜會在春天開花結籽。
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PHRASE
衰老;風光不再;衰退;退化
If you say that someone or something has gone to seed or has run to seed, you mean that they have become much less attractive, healthy, or efficient.
例句
He says the economy has gone to seed...
他說經濟已經走向衰退。
He was a big man in his forties; once he had a lot of muscle but now he was running to seed.
他 40 多歲時很魁梧，曾經肌肉發達，但如今身體逐漸衰弱了。