单词	flowering
释义	floweringflow‧er‧ing /ˈflaʊərɪŋ/ noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS It is, in fact, the first flowering of fiscal revolt against the high taxes of the Nineties. The basis was laid for the flowering of secular literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► the flowering of something Reforms paved the way for a flowering of democracy in Eastern Europe. After all, indiscretion is only the flowering of desperation. By this I mean the secular humanism that has allowed the flowering of civil society in the West. In a way, we are witnessing the second coming of Graham Gooch, the flowering of an unfulfilled embryo. Ling At this time of year the moors turn purple with the flowering of heathers. The basis was laid for the flowering of secular literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The period of emancipation, the flowering of literary tradition, the Holocaust. Word family WORD FAMILYadjectivefloweredfloweryfloweringnounflowerfloweringverbflowerdeflower the flowering of something formal when something develops in a very successful way:  The 19th century saw a flowering of science and technology.
随便看	never-never never-never land nevertheless Nevis new New Age New Age traveller Newark newbie newborn New Brunswick newbuild New Caledonia Newcastle newcomer New Deal New Delhi New Democratic Party new economy New England New Englander New England Journal of Medicine, The New English Bible, The newfangled New Forest

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