4周搞定2000+托福核心词
flourishing = flour(花) + ish(造成…) + ing(形容词) = 兴旺的，繁盛的
demolish = de(去掉) + mol(堆) + ish(造成…) = 把堆起来的东西毁掉→毁坏
embellish = em(进入) + bell(美好) + ish(造成…) = 进入美好→装饰
花一样开放→繁荣
flourish
常考释义
About 5,000 years ago, Egypt really began to flourish out in the Nile River valley.
五千年前，埃及在尼罗河山谷真正开始兴旺繁荣。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL6 L4vi. 繁荣；兴旺；茁壮成长；盛行；猖獗；肆虐
Business flourished and within six months they were earning 18,000 roubles a day.
生意红火了起来，六个月里他们每天都要赚18,000卢布。
The plant flourishes particularly well in slightly harsher climates.
这种植物在气候条件稍差一点的地区长得尤为茂盛。
Racism and crime still flourish in the ghetto.
种族主义和犯罪活动在贫民窟里依然很猖獗。
They tell me this place used to flourish.
他们告诉我这个地方曾经很繁荣。
来自《康斯坦丁 第1季第3集》
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About 5,000 years ago, Egypt really began to flourish out in the Nile River valley.
五千年前，埃及在尼罗河山谷真正开始兴旺繁荣。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL6 L6Off and on throughout the Cretaceous (the last period of the Mesozoic era, during which dinosaurs flourished), large shallow seas covered extensive areas of the continents.
在整个白垩纪（中生代的最后的一段时间，这时恐龙正值繁盛），广阔的浅海覆盖了大量的陆地。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL8 P2The hard volcanic stone was a resource that had been in great demand for many years, at least since the rise of the Olmecs (a people who flourished between 1200 and 400 B.C.), and it apparently had a secure market.
那坚硬的火成岩在很多年内都是需求量极大的资源，至少从奥尔麦克人(一个在公元前1200到公元前400年间繁荣过的名族)的崛起之后就是这样了，显然它有着一个稳定的市场。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL8 P1Wildman and Niles were particularly interested in investigating the conditions under which reflection might flourish–a subject on which there is little guidance in the literature.
怀尔德曼和奈尔斯都特别喜欢研究在哪种情况下反思可能大量出现——一个几乎没有任何文献指导的课题。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL9 P2Now, other forms of life could take hold: ferns and mosses (two of the most ancient types of land plants) that flourish even in rock crevices.
现在其他形式的生命就可以安家了：蕨类植物和苔藓（两种最古老的陆地植物品种）甚至可以在岩石缝隙里繁衍。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL9 P3Here more sedentary and more complex societies flourished.
迁移性更低、更为复杂的社会在这里兴旺发展起来。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL20 P2Both of these conditions are often found on the ocean floors, where shelled invertebrates (organisms without spines) flourish and are covered by the continuous rain of sedimentary particles.
海底通常就具有上述的两方面条件，这里生活着很多带壳的无脊椎动物（没有脊椎的动物），不断累积的似雨的沉积颗粒会把它们掩埋起来。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL20 P3Furthermore, a species-rich ecosystem is more likely to have species with similar ecological functions, so that if a species is lost from an ecosystem, another species, probably a competitor, is likely to flourish and occupy its functional role.
此外，物种丰富的生态系统更可能包含有着类似生态系统的功能，因此，如果生态系统中的一个物种损失，另一个物种，可能是竞争对手，就有希望蓬勃发展，并取代它的作用。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL46 P3And as a consequence, algebra and other more sophisticated forms of mathematics start to flourish.
其结果就是，代数学及其他更加复杂的数学形式开始繁荣发展。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL51 L3A good example of a site which continued to flourish through the late Postclassic is the inland Mayan community of Lamanai, located in what is today the country of Belize in Central America.
玛雅文明内陆的一个名叫Lamanai的群体是后古典时期晚期兴盛繁荣的很好例证。这个群体位于今天中美洲国家伯利兹地区。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL52 L6But we’re continuing to find new evidence that in certain areas Mayan civilization flourished right up to the end of the Postclassic period, what we refer to as the late Postclassic period.
但是，我们一直在发现新的证据。这些证据表明玛雅文明的一些地区的兴盛期直到后古典时期末才结束。我们把这段时期称为后古典时期晚期。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL52 L6vi. 处于巅峰状态；处于全盛时期
Student: So basically, what you are saying is while other Mayan cities were collapsing or had already collapsed, Lamanai was one of those places that was flourishing?
学生：所以你的意思是说其他玛雅城市当时可能正在崩溃或者已经崩溃，但是Lamanai是最后还处于兴盛期的城市？
The arts flourished in this period.
艺术在这个时期达到了巅峰状态。
vt. 摇摆；舞动；摇动
He flourished the glass to emphasize the point.
他挥动着杯子用以强调自己的观点。
n. 招摇；炫耀；夸示
She liked to finish the dance with a flourish.
她喜欢在舞蹈结束时做一个惹人注目的动作。
He took his cap from under his arm with a flourish and pulled it low over his eyes.
他派头十足地从腋下取出帽子戴在头上，并且把帽檐压得很低。
n. 花饰
He scrawled his name across the bill, underlining it with a showy flourish.
他在账单上龙飞凤舞地写上名字，并在下面加了一道花饰。
vi. 处于健康状态；身强体健
vt. 吹响（号角等）
vt. 展示；展现；展露
vt. 润色；添彩；修饰
vt. 给（文字）加花饰
n. 华丽的展示；盛装游行
n. 华丽辞藻
n. 舞动；挥舞
n. 雄壮的乐曲【音】
a flourish of trumpets
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