take root

英语

动词

take root (第三人称单数简单现在时 takes root，现在分词 taking root，过去式 took root，过去分词 taken root)

1. (不及物，书面) 扎根

   Those tulip bulbs have taken root.

   这些郁金香的鳞茎已经生根了。

2. (不及物，比喻义) 生根、建立。

   The new regulations have yet to take root.

   新的规则需要建立起来。

   • 1599, Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 3

     You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest.