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root1

noun ruːtrut

  • 1The part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibres.

    根部；根茎，地下茎

    cacti have deep and spreading roots

    仙人掌有深而展开的根。

    a tree root

    树根。

    as modifier root growth
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her bare feet beat against the ground, stumbling over roots of the giant trees, until she came to a halt at the very center of the enormous trees.
    • Miles suddenly staggered forward, his foot caught on a root.
    • They help roots scavenge more nutrients and water from the soil in exchange for sugar to make the molecules they need to live and grow.
    • It can grow in soil with limited moisture because of its ability to send roots deep into the soil to tap water there.
    • But trees help control runoff by soaking water in through their roots and providing sturdy support against erosion.
    • I pulled myself onto the muddy bank with the tree roots and low hanging branches.
    • My little brother finally stopped fighting me and sprinted ahead himself, tripping over a root and diving head first into the dirt.
    • Don't plant trees with deep roots, especially invasive species such as willows.
    • When planted, the underground portion forms roots and the above ground portion forms branches and leaves.
    • Water at the roots will keep plant stems and leaves turgid and able to photosynthesize.
    • Rose looked behind herself to see that her foot had got caught in a root.
    • Wood is composed of bundles of microscopic tubes that were used to transport water from the roots of the tree to the leaves.
    • Stumbling forward unsteadily, he tripped over a tree root and hit the ground face-first.
    • The chickens were then brought to the edge of the stream and alongside a large tree which had its roots in the water.
    • Her foot caught on a root and she fell head first down the hill they were descending.
    • Where the path went over a root, steps were cut into the wood and passage along the path was easy.
    • This is the same process used by trees to carry water from their roots to their leaves.
    • She grunted as she hit the ground, a tree root digging into shoulder.
    • I thought of the liquid levels in the bottles as metaphors for the underground water table and the strings as the extended roots of plants finding water.
    • He swore and kicked at the trunk as it caught on an upthrust root, then swore again as it jerked free and slammed into his shin.
    Synonyms
    radicle, rhizome, rootstock, tuber, tap root, rootlet
    rare radicel
    1. 1.1 The persistent underground part of a plant, especially when fleshy and enlarged and used as a vegetable, e.g. a turnip or carrot.
      （尤指肉质肥大，通常用作蔬菜的）根；块根
      you should never wash roots before storing
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Outside the cavern I had viewed various edible herbs and plants such as onions and turnips as well as roots and grasses.
      • In this street market, celeriac, parsley root, arugula and frisée were available.
      • Women gathered roots, prairie turnips, bitterroot, and camas bulbs in the early summer.
      • It is basically young ginger roots preserved in syrup, so I tried and reproduce something similar using first-of-the-season young ginger.
      • Add the onions and parsley root and sauté until translucent.
      • In a saucepan, add veal shanks, tongue, leeks, parsnips, celery root, garlic, red wine and veal stock.
      • First, there are the crisp, watery roots, such as carrots, jicama, radishes, and lotus root.
      • Even the accompanying potato and turnip gratin play off tuber and root, the warmth of one, the tang of the other.
      • Reduce the heat, add the carrots, celeriac, leeks, and parsley root and simmer until tender, about three hours.
      • Leafy vegetables, roots, and fruits completed the traditional diet.
      • Add the carrot, celery root, onions, apples, and paprika and sauté until soft.
      • From the mid-16th century suckets were made in Britain from local fruits, vegetables, and roots of many kinds.
      • These include turnips, cabbage, mustard, cassava root, soybeans, peanuts, pine nuts and millet.
      • There actually looked to be enough meat left on the bones of her rabbit to cut up and fry along with some roots she found while hunting to supply a basic breakfast.
      • Parsnips also make a wonderful soup and terrific fritters, and their long, blond roots are irresistible if roasted until the skinny tails scorch to a crisp.
      • A few sweet roots, parsnips, carrots and a stalk of celery will add flavour to the pan juices.
      • In two medium saucepans, sauté the carrots and celery root with two tablespoons of butter separately.
      • Wash the roots and put them in a casserole dish with a lid.
      • Organisers also recognise ginger as ‘a root of empowerment in holistic medicine.’
      • These taste best when eaten raw, with the exception of lotus root, which should be thinly sliced and steamed or stir-fried.
    2. 1.2 Any plant grown for its root.
      根用作物
      roots like beet and carrot cannot be transplanted
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Just when we thought you couldn't screw-up chocolate, someone goes and adds things like ginkgo biloba and bilberry root.
      • Sarsaparilla root contains saponins, which reduce microbes and toxins.
      • Both echinacea and goldenseal root have natural antibiotic activity and are extremely safe, when used as indicated on the label.
      • This way, when you buy some valerian root or St. John's wort, you'll know if there are any adverse reactions that you could get by using the herbal medication.
      • Licorice root happens to look just like an old cheroot cigarette.
      • Millie picked up a piece of mandrake root and broke it.
      • Beer made from manioc root is offered, and the family meal is shared.
      • The diet of rural residents is based on the cassava root, which is called mandioca in Portuguese.
      • In three small studies, men taking nettle root reported slightly better urine flow than men who were given a placebo.
    3. 1.3 The embedded part of a bodily organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nail.
      （头发、牙齿、指甲等的）根，根部
      her hair was fairer at the roots

      她的头发根部更显金黄。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was a middle aged man of Chinese origin, his hair greying at the roots and his body starting the road to terminal shutdown many years from then.
      • Her head turned to the vanity mirror, eyeing the blond roots of her hair that were growing in.
      • Even his hair and teeth clung to their roots, unlike the others who suffered from malnutrition.
      • Start at the crown of your head, then flip your head upside down and lift your hair at the roots with your fingers.
      • Vitamins A, C and E facilitate the normal shedding of dead cells, and most B vitamins feed follicles and hair roots.
      • While electrolysis sounds more threatening, the premise behind this method is that a needle zaps the hair at its root and kills it.
      • He had short hair with brown roots and blonde tips and I'd have noted his eye color but he didn't look at me for very long and I hadn't been close enough to tell.
      • His two-toned blond hair with black roots was falling over his eyes and he tried to blow it upwards and out of his eyes, failing miserably.
      • Severe flaking results from sebaceous glands, which are the glands near the roots of our hair.
      • Waxing, on the other hand, pulls the entire hair out from the root.
      • The scarring types produce scars, which affect the hair root and destroy the papilla or matrix.
      • She had blonde hair from her roots to her shoulders, then the color drastically changed like a person playing two different characters in a play.
      • The root of the hair extends down into the follicle and widens into a bulb at its base, which is the center of hair growth.
      • I'd just sit in the little cuticle and chew my nails down to the roots, not caring if they put me in one of those straitjackets.
      • The shoulders of the young man lurched upwards in an irregular motion and his brows arched to the roots of his hair as he stared at his father.
      • I feel Mother's cold smile, her fingers releasing Nikola and his face relaxing when the roots of his hairs snap back into place in his skin.
      • She could feel the rough fingers gently cupping her neck and touching the roots of her hair.
      • Only later did the penny drop that there weren't enough molars to match the worn milk teeth, and that the roots of the teeth had resorbed to the point that indicated they had been shed naturally.
      • His lofty glance seemed to measure her from the roots of her hair to the tips of her toes, leaving the girl stifling with self-consciousness.
      • The brush-on pearlised colors in four shades are best applied on long hair when strands are held together and color stroked on from the root to the tip.
    4. 1.4 The part of a thing attaching it to a greater or more fundamental whole; the end or base.
      底部，基部
      a little lever near the root of the barrel

      接近桶底的一根小杆。

      they disappeared from sight behind the root of the crag
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When they experience pain in the middle of the night in bed or while sitting, this is due to interference in circulation to the nerve root and spinal cords where it has been compressed.
      • A little deviation, and you will hit the spinal cord or the nerve root or damage the pedicle that supports the screw.

  • 2The basic cause, source, or origin of something.

    根源，来源；原因

    money is the root of all evil

    金钱是万恶之源。

    jealousy was at the root of it

    嫉妒是此事的根源。

    as modifier the root cause of the problem

    这个问题的根本原因。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Pain is definitely at the root of weight gain for me.
    • Sexual drive is at the root of humanity, and it is extremely resilient at the worst of times.
    • The forces that shape history have their roots in the most basic conditions of social and economic life.
    • Kurosawa draws the best possible performances from these actors by staying true to the source's roots as a play.
    • This is very much a global liquidity crisis in the works, with unprecedented leveraged speculation at the root of the unfolding financial debacle.
    • ‘Failure to address added services at the point of origin is the root of payment failure,’ he says.
    • While money is supposedly the root of all evil, the wealthy are much less likely to argue about money than most folks.
    • At root, their differences reflected wildly divergent political perspectives, as well as contending visions of the future.
    • Perspectives are the root, the basic fiber, and the foundation of every social plague impoverishing us.
    • There are endemic and perhaps diverse reasons at the root of inflation.
    • Prejudice seems to be the chief root of discrimination.
    • That, I guess, is the root of my fascination with this era.
    • To Kaitlin, he looked like the root of all her nightmares.
    • The old saying, ‘Money is the root of all evil,’ came back to haunt her.
    • As no doctor could help, he began to examine himself in mirrors, eventually concluding that faulty postural habits lay at the root of his problem.
    • Technological innovation is an important source of variation in organizations and, in turn, a root of organizational adaptation.
    • If I had not experienced some degree of disappointment and been determined to find the root cause, I may not have gained important knowledge about myself.
    • But the desire for power comes from envy which is the root cause of all evil.
    • Charlie had dealt with the root of his anger problem.
    • ‘It is a complex issue that goes to the root of sexual health matters,’ she says.
    Synonyms
    source, origin, starting point, seed, germ, beginnings, genesis
    cause, reason
    base, basis, foundation, bottom, seat, fundamental
    core, nucleus, heart, kernel, nub, essence
    Latin fons et origo
    literary fountainhead, wellspring, fount
    rare radix
    1. 2.1roots Family, ethnic, or cultural origins.
      it's always nice to return to my roots

      回到我的祖籍地总使我很高兴。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Many Sansei long to know more about their cultural roots, although the ways of their grandparents are alien to them.
      • Colonization broke the power of the traditional rulers, but social status is still partially determined by a person's family roots.
      • You'll probably need to learn a lot more about each other's religious and ethnic roots, as well as introduce your children to a host of varied rituals.
      • So most nationals prefer not to talk about their cultural roots and very often do not even know their ancestral tree.
      • Many Americans of Bulgarian descent are re-discovering their ethnic roots.
      • Their region had most of the nation's industries, and their French cultural roots were considered an advantage.
      • I want to hold on to my roots, my origins, my family, my friends.
      • After a few aimless years of drifting, he tries to find and establish ethnic roots similar to his own in order to rekindle the principles his father tried to instill in him.
      • Dictators and other political powers often suppress art because it provides a point of critical resistance, building a new national identity by evoking cultural roots.
      • Either he must assimilate in order to succeed or he must forego success for his ethnic roots and familial ties.
      • They and their families have their historical roots in the original villages.
      • With her memory of the past, their aunt serves as the instrument of a gendered return to their ethnic roots carried out in strongly ambivalent terms.
      • Joey had curly brown hair and was as dark as an African American, but his family roots originate from Spain.
      • English cultural roots lie in a merging of Anglo-Saxon, Danish, and Norman French culture that has existed as a synthesis since the late Middle Ages.
      • As artists it is important that we be free no matter what our racial and ethnic roots are - to find and define and follow our aesthetic.
      • This was somewhat ironic, as I know for a fact that my family once had its roots in the moors of England as well, and that we were one of the wealthier families and reviled by many.
      • Children living on the street, the lack of family roots, and an increase in crime have brought tremendous social stresses to Latin American countries.
      • It's about my background and about roots, family, music and manhood.
      • People's sense of their cultural roots - a recognition of a place having a strong patina of age and strong local identity - is often instinctive.
      • In the broad Canadian scene, a diverse group of Baptists with different theological or ethnic roots has emerged.
      Synonyms
      origins, beginnings, family, ancestors, predecessors
      heritage
      birthplace, native land, motherland, fatherland, homeland, native country, native soil
    2. 2.2as modifier roots Denoting or relating to something from a particular ethnic or cultural origin, especially a non-Western one.
      （尤指音乐）与某民族（或某文化）有渊源的（尤指源自非西方民族或非西方文化）
      roots music

      本土音乐。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • With their previous two albums, they had become the darlings of the roots rock scene.
      • It is not awful, but its steady flow of roots rock near-misses is, at the very least, disheartening.
      • For 10 years running, VP Records annually pumps out compilations that pull from their massive dancehall and roots reggae catalogue.
      • Offered without sound but backed by the movie's manic bump and grind roots rock, they grow dull quickly.
      • Walford Tyson's plaintive, soulful voice floats over deep roots grooves, sweet chord changes and juicy horn stabs; the production is warm, deep and crisp.
      • Their seminal blend of jazz, Afro-Cuban music and roots traditions continues to influence modern West and Central African music.
      • His output was a fusion of everything good in music at the time - chunky punk guitar, killer pop tunes and horns and baselines with a deep ska / roots influence.
      • One song was roots rock, the next featured reggae backbeats.
      • After signing with Zoë, a division of roots label Rounder, they returned re-energized with Open in 2001.
      • Bilyeu, along with his brother and cousins, play in Big Smith, a mountain roots band that bridge the gap between traditional Appalachian gospel and modern country.
      • Paul thought he would give this roots business one more chance.
      • The stage, however, plays host not to righteous roots reggae or foam-mouthed punk rock, but to a scattered group of girls in school uniform.
      • As the show ended and fans filed to the exits only one thing was missing from this roots reverie - just a little more time.
      • It's hard enough for most British bands to capture that roots vibe without sounding phoney or just plain ridiculous, but they pull it off and keep their own unique character too.
      • But that's not the typical response to this countrified roots rock.
    3. 2.3 (in biblical use) a scion; a descendant.
      〈圣经〉根苗，苗裔
      the root of David

      以色列国王大卫的苗裔。

    4. 2.4Linguistics A morpheme, not necessarily surviving as a word in itself, from which words have been made by the addition of prefixes or suffixes or by other modification.
      〔语言学〕词根
      many European words stem from this linguistic root

      许多欧洲词汇源于这个词根。

      as modifier the root form of the word

      这个单词的词根。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Significantly, the root of bahelawi is bahel, meaning culture.
      • It's pretty clear, based on Green's paper-doll explanation, that the root morpheme must have been puppet.
      • Words combine with words, or prefixes and suffixes combine with roots, in ways that over time drift away from perfect sense.
      • I do not intend ‘rational’, in this sense, but, rather, in the sense of its Latin root, ratio, meaning reason.
      • So, Eskimoan languages are really extraordinary in their productive word-building capability, for any root you might pick.
    5. 2.5Music The fundamental note of a chord.
      〔乐〕根音
      in the sequence the roots of the chords drop by fifths
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I have an idea of the flavour now - the root note of the melody, gently picked electric guitar, a line or two of vocals.
      • This is all captured in the toy sax sound that just honks the root note as if someone who can't really play the sax has been given one lesson and one take to give it their best shot.
      • Where there is no figure under a note, the convention is that this denotes the most common chord, which Mr Protheroe describes as a root-position chord; i.e a triad with a root note, the third above and the fifth above.
      • He's just about incompetent whenever he tries anything but the root of the chord, so it's not like we're getting much help from that side, either.
      • Smith's multitracked trumpets mimic the weary blare of the foghorns, often taking their pitches as the root notes for fantastic chords.

  • 3Mathematics
    A number or quantity that when multiplied by itself, typically a specified number of times, gives a specified number or quantity.

    〔数〕根

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's hard enough trying to remember cubed roots and the average lifespan of an amoeba.
    1. 3.1
      short for square root
    2. 3.2 A value of an unknown quantity satisfying a given equation.
      方程根
      the roots of the equation differ by an integer

      方程根会因整数不同而不同。

  • 4Computing
    often as modifier A user account with full and unrestricted access to a system.

    make sure that these files can only be accessed by the root user
    I need to log in as root on my system to resolve an issue
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I logged in as root and created an account for myself.
    • The greatest threat to a typical Linux installation, in my opinion, is a careless root user.
    • Run this command either with your normal user ID or as root; no command-line options are necessary.
    • The root account allows the user to perform any command and access any data.
    • Log on to the system as a user with root authority.

  • 5Australian Irish NZ vulgar slang An act of sexual intercourse.

    〈澳/新西兰，爱尔兰，粗俚〉性交

    1. 5.1with adjective A sexual partner of a specified ability.
      （有明确性能的）性交伙伴
verb ruːtrut
[with object]

  • 1Cause (a plant or cutting) to grow roots.

    使（植物，插枝）生根

    root your own cuttings from stock plants

    从繁殖用植物上剪下枝条，自己进行插枝培植。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They are easily rooted from cuttings, so I rarely bother gathering seeds from them.
    • An easy way to overwinter desirable varieties is to root cuttings in the fall.
    • I cut it back to bring indoors and rooted the cuttings.
    • To prepare an area in which to root cuttings you must first select a site.
    • When using the second method for rooting hardwood cuttings of deciduous plants you do everything exactly the same as you do with method number one, up to the point where you bury them for the winter.
    • A Yoshino cherry is propagated by grafting a cutting onto another cherry trunk or by rooting small cuttings.
    • The earlier the cuttings are rooted the taller will be the blooming plants.
    • The best way to propagate your favorites is to root stem cuttings taken from your own plants in spring.
    • Take geranium cuttings of two to four inches to root indoors.
    • To keep a variety indefinitely, root a few stem cuttings every year.
    • They are the easiest rose to start from seed, and also the easiest to root from cuttings.
    • I've heard of people rooting rose cuttings, but have never succeeded at it.
    • It's a good time to root stem cuttings so you will have new plants for the garden next spring.
    • About six months after you have rooted your cutting, you can transplant it directly into the garden, if you choose.
    • With all of that said, today it is possible to grow Pink Dogwoods by rooting cuttings under intermittent mist.
    • There are three different techniques for rooting cuttings of deciduous plants.
    • I have successfully rooted plumeria branches broken from my plants.
    Synonyms
    plant, bed out, sow
    1. 1.1no object (of a plant or cutting) establish roots.
      使（植物，插枝）生根
      large trees had rooted in the canal bank

      许多大树扎根在运河岸边。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Thicker layers may reduce the amount of oxygen in the soil and encourage plants to root in the mulch layer rather than in the soil.
      • Severe fires incinerate duff and all plants rooted there.
      • Supply high humidity, warmth and light in order for the cuttings to root within four to five weeks.
      • At the time the young plant, having rooted, is placed in a pot, where it will remain for some two to three months.
      • I had a sudden premonition of the proud tower reduced to a pile of rubble overgrown by the plants that had rooted in its mossy crevices.
      • Now is the right time of year to take cuttings of rosemary which roots very easily in sand.
      • The resulting soil is loose and fast draining, which encourages plants to root deeply, well away from the desiccating heat at the surface.
      • Once the stem has rooted it can be cut free of the mother plant.
      • The dome will keep the stems from drying out until the plant is rooted.
      • Dryland corn is rooting at the three foot depth and, even with high temperatures and lack of precipitation, it is looking good.
      • And remember, trees growing in lawns are rooted in the same soil as the grass and rarely require separate nitrogen fertilizer programs.
      • Once the succulents are rooted (in four weeks), he transfers them to pots or garden beds.
      • Cluster-forming bulbous plants, such as daffodils, can be split after they have rooted a few years.
      • Because it is busy rooting, any growth that you may have seen on the bulb will slow down until the plant is rooted - so don't panic of things seem to come to a dead halt.
      • Begin mowing when the lawn is firmly rooted, a month or two after planting.
      • The cuttings root very easily in sand or in a rooting medium.
      • The pool's dark surface is patterned with the reflection of a few bare trees that appear to be rooted within and just beyond the pool itself.
      • The system includes a root-repellent membrane to prevent plants from rooting in the roof, a drainage system and a growing medium that is lighter than the soil used on the ground.
      • Keep moist and a high percentage of the cuttings will root in four to five weeks.
      • These include the ability of mother plants to produce plenty of wood, the ease with which cuttings root, and also the ease with which they can be grafted.
      Synonyms
      take root, grow roots, become established, establish, strike, take

  • 2Establish deeply and firmly.

    扎根于，在…中根深蒂固

    vegetarianism is rooted in Indian culture

    素食主义在印度文化中根深蒂固。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Violence against women is a complex issue as it is rooted in masculinist structures of power.
    • Third, the acceptance of despotic rule and the rejection of effective constitutional limitations on government are deeply rooted in tradition and religion.
    • If it succeeds, the core will no longer be rooted in just one civilization (the West), but will span several continents in a global network of power and prosperity.
    • ‘We are rooted in the worlds of art and culture,’ she says.
    • Mental illness was rooted in a loss of existential freedom, leading to alienation and social exclusion.
    • After all, it is deeply rooted in discrimination.
    • The images suggested that the progress made by African Americans after the Civil War was rooted in the process of Americanization itself.
    • While his intentions are deeply rooted in exploring black masculinity, the context of his work becomes part of a larger dialogue concerning race in America today.
    • As a result, the design is rooted in two quite different yet familiar building types - the cottage and the loft.
    • While indigo is no longer a tool of oppression, it is still an area rooted in fiefdom and intolerance.
    • The whole essence of a gentleman is rooted in inequality.
    • Yet government-encouraged efforts to root Protestantism in Welsh culture were paying off by the end of the century.
    • Christianity, even as the dominant religion, has always had strains that cut against the mainstream, while still being rooted in and influenced by the culture and society of a particular time and place.
    • There, the death penalty is rooted in popular culture (even to the present).
    • It is a paradox that Augustine would not have accepted, but it is rooted in the pragmatic imagination as a workable metaphysics.
    • Such an approach has often been taken to be a break with the past, but is rooted in more than two millennia of logical and grammatical system-building.
    • Arthur is presented as a multifaceted figure, not one rooted in any particular area or with obvious historical roots.
    • Perceived as gender-neutral, these practices were rooted in old, idealised images of masculinity.
    • Swearing is rooted in the discourse of mortality.
    • The ultimate effect is the emerging sense of values that resonates from these stories rooted in the delicate areas of modern life.
    Synonyms
    embedded, fixed, firmly established, implanted
    deep-rooted, entrenched, ingrained, ineradicable
    1. 2.1be rooted in Have as an origin or cause.
      根源在于，由…产生
      the Latin verb is rooted in an Indo-European word

      拉丁文dubitare源自一个印欧语系单词。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • With him abstract work came from within, while figurative work and even abstraction from nature were rooted in external stimuli.
      • Their method of art practice was rooted in political protest that rejected the more readily legible and democratic tropes of social realism.
      • Panofsky's contention that Van Eyck literally painted a marriage certificate was rooted in two early accounts of the picture.
      • His humour and his mad, mad giggle were rooted in an irreverence that couldn't let him take anything too seriously - especially himself.
      • His concerns were rooted in society, not theology.
      • Together, they harness decades of experience in a variety of styles to make a musical statement that is rooted in tradition but with no fear of improvisation.
      • No, the whole lack of pre-marriage activity (to be blunt: the total lack of a social life) was what my puzzlement was rooted in.
      • And part of our decision-making about what to publish and what to pursue is rooted in those unanswered questions.
      • The origins of the new disaster were rooted in Menem's years.
      • Many of these clinical problems are already recognized as being rooted in, or exacerbated by, stress; it is Sarno's association of these disease entities with repressed rage that makes his theory unique.
      • This abstract world gains its power from being rooted in very real emotions and anxieties that have haunted cinema since The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, another powerful film about the fragile nature of identity in the face of fantasy.
      • This social gaze is rooted in and reinforces moral assumptions that link being a good mother to caring and being a good father to earning.
      • So when, during a lecture on D.H. Lawrence, Bill mentioned that the writer's sexual problems were rooted in his relationship with his mother, there was dead silence.
      • Those strange new paintings were rooted in the Maori figurative traditions that emerged on the East Coast in the late 19th century.
      • His work was rooted in a landscape, religion and a rural way of life.
      • The origins of convivial practices on the mainland appear to have been rooted in the private sphere of elite social values, which emphasized generosity and hospitality in the framework of direct, reciprocal transactions.
      • Who I am now is rooted in where I began and has been developed by where I have been since, and to ask my fromness is to ask my identity.
      • My beef, as it would be, is rooted in your first two sentences.
      • The ideological context of these exchanges over public policy is rooted in, and sustained by, references to the past.
      • Food and farming, after all, are rooted in living plants and animals.

  • 3often as adjective rooted Cause (someone) to stand immobile through fear or amazement.

    （因畏惧、惊奇而）生了根似的不动；一动不动

    she found herself rooted to the spot in disbelief

    她发觉自己因怀疑而站在那里一动不动。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His only thoughts were to escape, but fear rooted him to the spot.
    • Lizzie didn't touch her jacket; she was frozen, rooted to her seat, trapped in a strange coma-like state.
    • He was momentarily speechless, rooted to the ground in the middle of the spacious air conditioned bedroom.
    • Then he stopped at the last cage, rooted to the ground in shock.
    • May was inching slowly closer to David, who stood rooted to the spot.
    • But for some reason she couldn't move, as though she were rooted to the spot.
    • I feel like I should go running after the little girl, but suddenly I'm rooted to the spot.
    • Torn by conflicting emotions, I stood rooted to the spot.
    • Stunned at this cover-up, I was rooted to the spot.
    • As it was, I stood rooted to the spot with shock and it missed.
    • We stood rooted to the spot, staring at each other.
    • But her feet seemed rooted to the ground and the spectacle of that great, angry crowd tearing towards her paralysed her with terror.
    • Like a cornered animal, she remained rooted in place, gripping her purse.
    • Waiting until the snake was only a foot or two away, while I stood rooted to the ground with fright, he took careful aim at it, and missed - twice.
    • The four other students stood rooted to the spot.
    • I felt as though cold water had just been dumped over my head, shocking me and rooting me to the spot.
    • She froze in place, her arms and legs locking together, her feet rooted to the ground.
    • Lizzie didn't know what to do, she was as surprised as he, and her feet seemed rooted to the ground.
    • It will root you in your seat, when it doesn't have you on the edge of it, or leaping up and cheering.
    • I stood rooted to the ground, not knowing how or what to react to my current feeling.
    Synonyms
    unable to move from, frozen to, riveted to, paralysed to, glued to, fixed to
    stock-still, as still as a statue, as if turned to stone, motionless, unmoving

  • 4Computing
    Gain access to the root account of (a smartphone or computer)

    we explained how to manually root almost any Android device
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The proportion of people who want to recompile their phone OS is even smaller than the number who want to root their phone.
    • The program allows you to customize your user interface without having to root the device.
    • If I want to root my device, there's a very small chance that it's because I want to copy a movie, and a good chance that I want to take a screenshot of my widget setup, or play with a faster ROM.
    • Before you can start to do anything to your phone, you'll need to root it, which means basically to unlock the security settings put in place in the OS to prevent it from being altered.
    • I personally cannot wait to root the phone and run custom ROMs.

  • 5Australian Irish NZ vulgar slang Have sexual intercourse with.

    〈澳/新西兰，爱尔兰，粗俚〉与…性交

    1. 5.1 Exhaust (someone) or frustrate their efforts.
      使精疲力竭；挫败，使受挫折
      grab a pew—you must be rooted

Phrases

  • at root

    • Basically; fundamentally.

      实际上，根本上，本质上

      it is a moral question at root

      这实质上是个道德问题。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Psychoanalysis defines subjectivity as ‘the history of one's identifications,’ which are at root violent and subject to inversion.
      • But because the subordination is inspired at root by anxiety and denial, it is not a peaceable subordination.
      • They don't exist independently of their sources; they are a direct reflection of source activity - and therefore, at root, a tediously self-fulfilling prophecy.
      • Those of us pining for the sensuality of the tropical island often forget that paradise is, at root, a religious notion.
      • Despite the length of my approach to it the question is, at root, quite a short one.
      • And let's not get into the limitations of narrative structure and formulas of what makes a good story, since, of course, they're fairly archetypal (that is, repetitive) at root.
      • Ignoring the physical, technological underpinnings for now, we assert that the library is, at root, a collection of information selected for use of, and made useable for, a particular community.
      • But these are cavils and, at root, only the difference between fact and a greater, truth-telling fiction.
      • And if in spite or because of new learning people still inhabit that universe then it's going to have a very profound effect on whether you accept at root the fundamental principles of western psychology for dealing with your problems.
      • But there is at root here something far more fundamental.

  • get rooted

    • vulgar slang often in imperativeGo away (used as an expression of anger or impatience)

      anyone who disagrees can go and get rooted

  • put down roots

    • 1(of a plant) begin to draw nourishment from the soil through its roots.

      （植物）扎根

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Some varieties, however, will spend their first year putting down roots vis-a-vis growing stems and flowers.
      1. 1.1(of a person) begin to have a settled life in a particular place.
        （人）安家落户；开始定居下来过稳定的生活
        I think it's time I put down some roots
        they have married, put down roots
        Example sentencesExamples
        • We stayed, bought a house and started a family, happy to be putting down roots in such a lovely city.
        • More than 1,300 a week may visit the site, but of those, only 530 bothered to sign up to request further information on the possibilities and practicalities of putting down roots in Scotland.
        • Against this background, amid this natural wonder, men have chosen to settle themselves and put down roots.
        • World War II wrought the second transformation, when defence industries began putting down roots.
        • If the parents who turned up for the talk are a snap shot of the families which are putting down roots in Newbridge, then the school building and its surroundings are also a microcosm of the booming town.
        • In putting down roots, we decide where we want to be buried.
        • You think they're not talking about it, but they are putting down roots.
        • Or is it something much more ephemeral, a sense of comfort, of forming bonds and putting down roots in an alien landscape?
        • Temporary visas mean life in limbo, with no prospect of family reunion or settling, and putting down roots.
        • The olive oil produced here is world-class, and Britons in search of la dolce vita are putting down roots in the area.
        Synonyms
        settle, become established, establish oneself, make one's home, set up home

  • root and branch

    • Used to express the thorough or radical nature of a process or operation.

      全部的（地），完全的（地）；彻底的（地）

      root-and-branch reform of personal taxation

      个人所得税的彻底改革。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The United States and other countries should be working to eradicate it, root and branch.
      • We need a council of the Church that includes both the laity and the bishops and the clergy to get at this problem root and branch.
      • But there is another possibility altogether: An individual or a community may entirely reject its own visceral code, root and branch, for the sake of what it has come to see as an ethically superior plane of existence.
      • This, of course, is a post hoc error, one that most Americans reject, root and branch.
      • The place really is in dire need of root and branch reform.
      • This show demonstrates the determination of these artists not simply to rewrite the rules of fine art, but to recreate every aspect of their visual world, root and branch.
      • Mr Davis takes issue with this claim root and branch.
      • Pakistan, which is not a member of this grouping, has also been expressing its resolve to destroy the menace root and branch.
      • You see, when someone attacks our caravans, we go after 'em root and branch.
      • While one might want to ridicule a particular expression of curiosity, he would be careful of dismissing curiosity root and branch.
      Synonyms
      completely, entirely, wholly, totally, utterly, thoroughly
      complete, total, entire, utter, thorough

  • root someone's boot

    • vulgar slang An exclamation of exasperation.

      root my boot, what a night

  • strike at the root (or roots) of

    • Affect in a vital area with potentially destructive results.

      摧毁…的基础，根绝

      the proposals struck at the roots of community life

      这些建议摧毁了社区生活的基础。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The elimination of the peasants' opposition, therefore, struck at the roots of the October Revolution.
      • But, he went on to say that the recent events ‘are of far greater concern because they strike at the roots of our free society, one aspect of which is our market-driven economy’.
      • Others had more strident critiques of American society and envisioned radical social changes that struck at the root of inequality.
      • Taken to the limit, of course, this line of reasoning would strike at the root of all empirical knowledge.
      • Connective aesthetics strikes at the root of this alienation by dissolving the mechanical division between self and the world that has prevailed during the modern epoch.
      • The Attorney-General's contention, if correct, strikes at the root of this basic principle.
      • This is a poverty that strikes at the root of national prosperity.…
      • The objective is to strike at the root of psychosomatic problems.
      • Always suspicious to the point of paranoia, Constantius struck at the roots of conspiracy.
      • I see the ability to be alone in the wild as an achievement, something truly radical that strikes at the root of our increasingly presumptuous levels of socialization.

  • take root

    • 1(of a plant) begin to grow and draw nourishment from the soil through its roots.

      （植物）扎根

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Samphire extract is derived from the Samphire plant that takes root and thrives in rocky coastal areas.
      • A shallow, bleached pit in the center marks the spot where a cluster of trees once took root.
      • The scattered seeds take root and grow to their full potential.
      • Still, there are signs that the field is beginning to take root.
      • Over time, the ivy will take root in the moss, and will continue to grow, so you'll need to continue pinning the ivy to the moss as it grows, and maybe cut it back if it starts to take over.
      • The living roof itself is a compost based system, usually a base of straw left to decompose within which native or introduced plants can then take root.
      • With wear, the soles release seeds, some of which take root and clean the environment through phytoremediation, a process by which certain natural plants can destroy hazardous contaminants in the ground.
      • Cotton was to have been the establishing crop of the Ord development, and it took root robustly.
      • Others spread aggressively by stolons (stems that creep along the soil surface, taking root and forming new plants at intervals).
      • It spread over the floor with a fecund exuberance that brought to mind cypress vines, plants that take root wherever they touch the ground.
      Synonyms
      begin to germinate, begin to sprout, establish, strike, take
      1. 1.1Become fixed or established.
        扎根；被牢固树立；固定不动
        the idea had taken root in my mind

        这个想法在我的头脑里扎了根。

        Example sentencesExamples
        • Democracy took root by fits and starts thereafter, until 1990 when a new constitution restored constitutional monarchy and established a multi-party system of parliamentary government, which is now firmly in place.
        • Because he had little to say about social need and there was no legislative provision for subsidising loss-making services, the idea took root that the issue had simply been ignored.
        • Our tour guide was exceptional, explaining the economic and political changes that had swept over Honduras since democracy took root.
        • Hence, petrarchismo never took root in Milan; even when Arcadian poetics held sway in Bologna and Rome in the eighteenth century, dialect poetry was prominent in Milan.
        • Spatial sequences merging across the shifting levels prevent fixed identities from taking root anywhere.
        • I quickly stomped on that idea before it fully took root.
        • Of course, generations of American thinkers had fertilized the soil in which Coué's ideas took root.
        • Nevertheless, the idea took root in their minds.
        • As these ideas took root, they were accompanied by a change in philosophy regarding the ruler and the subject.
        • Predictably, that opening rang the death knell for our store, which sat empty until a flea market took root behind the by-then broken and boarded windows, while the parking lot became a haven for drug deals.
        Synonyms
        become established, establish itself, become fixed, take hold

Phrasal Verbs

  • root something out

    • 1Dig or pull up a plant by the roots.

      连根挖起，连根拔起

      they are rooting up hawthorn bushes
      they make a mess, root up plants and flowers
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was told to root the plants out immediately.
      • If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day… fifty the day after that… and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions.
      Synonyms
      uproot, tear something up by the roots, pull something up, grub something out
      1. 1.1Find and get rid of someone or something pernicious or dangerous.
        根除，铲除，根绝
        a campaign to root out corruption

        一场根除腐败的运动。

        Example sentencesExamples
        • He once said, ‘The country will see no hope if regional grudges are not rooted out.’
        • We will either root it out and extinguish it wherever it may hide, or it will find us and strip us of our safety, happiness and everything we cherish.
        • He urged the taxi industry to forge close links with the police so that these elements could be rooted out once and for all.
        • A whole rethink and development of policies which will put the nation on the road to economic recovery is necessary, so that poverty can be rooted out.
        • We can all do our part to defend against them and to root them out.
        • After decades of struggle by activists the government finally accepted that institutional racism exists and promised that it would root it out of public bodies.
        • There were pockets of corruption, but our efforts to root it out are beginning to yield results.
        • If he doesn't present himself, we're going to root him out, and we'll defeat him in kind that way.
        • Typos appear in virtually every book, and it's up to the proofreaders and typesetters to root them out.
        • One-in-three claiming to have been hit by untraced drivers drop their claims upon investigation by the bureau - 400 dodgy claims are rooted out in the initial stages of investigation every year.
        • But the breadth of corruption makes the challenge of rooting it out more difficult.
        • Basically, the government should get tougher with those who send such e-mails for their own profits and a national campaign should be launched until the evil practice is rooted out.
        • Rome abhorred the practice and rooted it out when encountered among others, although when writing of the Druidic rituals of the Celts and the taking of heads for trophies they probably exaggerated for propaganda purposes.
        • Our goal is to help our readers recognize this aberrant species of leader, effectively deal with them, and then hopefully root them out of the workplace.
        • In line with this policy, they handed her over to be tried as a witch by a combination of a Church Court and the Holy Roman Inquisition, set up to maintain the absolute divine authority of the Church by rooting out all heresy.
        • With frightening swiftness, nearly all enemy agents inside Confederation borders were rooted out, systematically hunted down, and then eliminated.
        • Until they can be rooted out, hopes for lasting peace will have hardly advanced at all.
        • The sooner they are rooted out and dealt with the sooner we may be able to curtail what is now a worrying trend.
        • If there are anti-competitive practices in the professions which are hurting consumers and damaging our economy then we must identify them and root them out.
        • The local authorities have to do the main job of finding these gangs and rooting them out.
        Synonyms
        eradicate, get rid of, eliminate, weed out, remove, destroy, put an end to, do away with, wipe out, stamp out, extirpate, abolish, extinguish
        unearth, dig up, dig out, turn up, bring to light, uncover, discover, dredge up, ferret out, hunt out, nose out, expose

Derivatives

  • rootage

    • noun

  • rootedness

    • noun ˈruːtɪdnəsˈrudədnəs
    mass noun

    • The quality of being rooted or firmly established.

      country music offers a deep sense of rootedness
      Example sentencesExamples
      • our rootedness in tradition
      • There is a real emotional rootedness to the style of the acting, and a whimsical fantasy element to it.
      • Mixed with the reminiscence of its unique history, the rootedness of traditional art and design, and dominant western design influence, it is still exploring and experimenting with new ways in design.
      • This thematic interest also informs her precise, measured lines, which unravel into music as they take hold of meaning, seeking at once rootedness and flight.

  • rootlet

    • noun ˈruːtlɪtˈrutlət
    • During surgery, the tumor appeared firmly attached to the posterior nerve rootlets, but gross total resection of the tumor was performed with sparing of the nerves.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Below the cervical enlargement, the dorsal rootlets, roots and ganglia diminish rapidly in size.
      • The barley was first allowed to germinate, or sprout rootlets, in a moist environment.
      • The rootlet then drills into the branch and spreads its developing roots under the bark and into the living tissue.
      • Most of the commercially valuable wild species derive their nourishment from the rootlets of living trees in a mutually beneficial relationship called mycorrhiza.

  • root-like

    • adjective
    • All this indicates that the thorns possess a root-like function.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • An image of a brain, with its root-like pathways, leads her to suggest that humans are ‘just like trees’.
      • It obviously never roots in the soil but has root-like structures which penetrates the bark of the tree and then extracts water and essential chemicals.
      • Most Paleozoic crinoids lived attached to the sea-floor by a flexible stem, which may be either cemented to the sea-floor, or have a root-like system buried into the sediment.
      • Inside, the peas are more like little drums than perfect spheres, and as you pop them off they pull little root-like stalks with them, which you don't see on the frozen ones you get out of a bag.

  • rooty

    • adjectiverootiest, rootier
    • It is a branchy, brushy, rooty tree, without leaves.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But the trail is a continuous series of undulations, and the tread way itself is very rocky and rooty, with short, steep climbs.
      • It's a little rooty, a little mossy, rarely muddy - a mild recipe that would call for skinny semi-slicks, save for the frequent pockets of deep sand.
      • Then a steep path, rooty and mountain-bike churned, led up to a main forest track of smooth crushed and compacted limestone.
      • So he decides the rooty sweetness of beetroot nestled in a pile of soupy yet nuttily resistant rice is both good and interesting.

Origin

Late Old English rōt, from Old Norse rót; related to Latin radix, also to wort.

  • This is an Old English word related to Latin radix (see radical) and wort, which is used in the names of plants such as St John's wort. Root and branch, used to emphasize how thoroughly something is dealt with, goes back to the biblical book of Malachi: ‘The day cometh that shall burn them up…that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.’ See also money. Root used of an animal turning up the ground with its snout in search of food is a completely different word, that may ultimately be linked to Latin rodere ‘gnaw’ (see rodent). Someone backing a candidate for a post may be said to be rooting for them—perhaps with the idea of trying to dig up further support through their efforts.

Rhymes

acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute

root2

verb ruːtrut

  • 1no object, with adverbial (of an animal) turn up the ground with its snout in search of food.

    （动物）用鼻（或嘴）拱土觅食

    stray dogs rooting around for bones and scraps

    用鼻拱土四处寻找骨头和残羹剩饭的流浪狗。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • On the Bowling Green near Manhattan's southern tip, for instance, stood a vacant pedestal enclosed by an iron fence around which stray pigs often rooted.
    • We passed through a narrow gate, left open, and saw an empty cattle shed, and next to it a circular pig sty, with a few great swine rooting through the strawy mud.
    • At night we saw dogs rooting in the shadows, and men walking in the cold, their hands drifting out of warm pockets reaching for what?
    1. 1.1 Search unsystematically through an untidy mass or area; rummage.
      翻找；搜寻
      she was rooting through a pile of papers

      她在一堆文书里翻找东西。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Bounding to the bathroom, he rooted through the cabinets, stuffing everything he found into pockets and hiding places in his sweaters and tunic.
      • He looks over at Tim, who is wearing a pair of headphones over one ear and is rooting around in his jeans pockets for something, probably food.
      • She sighed and started rooting though her rations pack looking for more food.
      • Laura, in her nightgown, notices that Tom's bed is empty while he roots around in his pockets on the fire escape in search of his key.
      • These young designers root through junk piles and garage sales to create one-of-a-kind, quirky pieces of furniture.
      • We had to root around a bit to find food first, but had good luck eventually.
      • The girl rushes to join her mother, who is rooting through some old piles of lace handkerchiefs.
      • He was rooting through his pack for matches when Pierre-Jacques, no doubt assuming he was doing us a favor, soaked the assemblage in gasoline and ignited it with a cigarette lighter.
      • Ignoring his morals and his upbringings, Brad continued to root through the drawer in search of the gun.
      • There was a big pile of stuff in the corner and I rooted through it and felt like a dog searching for a bone or a pig looking for a truffle.
      • The burden would then be on them to root through all their files in search of infringing items.
      • He turned and rooted through a pile of folders on a table beside him.
      • She handed him her brown bag and he rooted through it.
      • With shaking limbs, she rose from her bed, stumbled to the small wardrobe that held her few remaining possessions and started rooting through them, searching frantically.
    2. 1.2root something outwith object Find or extract something by rummaging.
      找出；查出；发掘出
      he managed to root out the cleaning kit

      他设法找出了那套打扫用具。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I thought I'd rooted out all the hidden food in our kitchen.
      • The small band of loyal fans like me (I was born the same year as Myra) were reduced to rooting out his records only in 19-cent remainder bins.
      • It is a specialist search tool, specifically refined to root out the bargains you're looking for and leave out the items you're not.
noun ruːtrut

  • An act of rooting.

    翻找；搜寻；发掘

    I had a root through the open drawers

    我翻找了一下拉开的抽屉。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They had a bloody good root in all our stuff, just for the hell of it.

Phrasal Verbs

  • root for

    • Support or hope for the success of (a person or group entering a contest or undertaking a challenge)

      〈非正式〉支持；赞助；声援（个人或团体参加比赛或接受挑战）

      the whole of this club is rooting for him

      这个俱乐部里所有的人都在支持他。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I rooted for the main characters and hoped the bad ones would meet a bad end.
      • But you know, I think your point is that I think maybe some of the jurors are sort of rooting for him secretly.
      • As the crowd applauds, you can't help rooting for him, too.
      • By the end you'll be rooting for our British hope and begging for the romantic payoff.
      • And you've got to know so many people are rooting for you and your family.
      • So rooting for a team becomes a display of patriotism.
      • The room exploded with shouts and cheers as people rooted for their favorite.
      • And yet… could they really trust the happy reaction of a hometown crowd so inclined to root for their success?
      • They root for the hero, exult at his successes, are anxious for his triumph, and suffer at his reversals.
      • If he roots for anything, he says, it is for hard-luck cases, big comebacks - in other words, ‘a good story.’
      Synonyms
      cheer, applaud, cheer on, support, encourage, urge on, shout for

  • root someone on

    〈北美，非正式〉为…欢呼；为…鼓气

    • Cheer or spur someone on.

      〈北美，非正式〉为…欢呼；为…鼓气

      his mother rooted him on enthusiastically from ringside

      他的母亲从台边区拼命为他加油。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Your father, who had won a bronze medal in the Olympics in 1956, was one of those rooting you on.
      • If you sponsor races or leagues, ensure that at least one club employee attends the events and makes it known to members that he or she is there rooting them on.
      • The others were rooting Jerry on by saying, ‘Go Jerry!’
      • I didn't play my best, but the knowledge that a friendly face was in the stands, rooting me on, definitely helped.
      • I was rooting him on, along with the others in his small but fervent peanut gallery.
      • ‘There's a lot of instant gratification, with other people rooting them on, like a game show,’ Bloom says.
      • There were fans screaming and yelling and rooting us on.
      • And Spencer Tracy, he told me once, would visit the set of other movies being shot and root them on.
      • Just tell me who was there rooting you on when you were even trying out for those rinky-dink teams?
      • So he can come watch me fight and he can keep on rooting me on.

Origin

Old English wrōtan, of Germanic origin; related to Old English wrōt 'snout', German Rüssel 'snout', and perhaps ultimately to Latin rodere 'gnaw'.

noun.1
phr.
phr.v.
verb.1
phr.v.

root1

nounro͞otrut

  • 1The part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibers.

    根部；根茎，地下茎

    cacti have deep and spreading roots

    仙人掌有深而展开的根。

    a tree root

    树根。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They help roots scavenge more nutrients and water from the soil in exchange for sugar to make the molecules they need to live and grow.
    • Her foot caught on a root and she fell head first down the hill they were descending.
    • Stumbling forward unsteadily, he tripped over a tree root and hit the ground face-first.
    • He swore and kicked at the trunk as it caught on an upthrust root, then swore again as it jerked free and slammed into his shin.
    • Rose looked behind herself to see that her foot had got caught in a root.
    • She grunted as she hit the ground, a tree root digging into shoulder.
    • Wood is composed of bundles of microscopic tubes that were used to transport water from the roots of the tree to the leaves.
    • I thought of the liquid levels in the bottles as metaphors for the underground water table and the strings as the extended roots of plants finding water.
    • My little brother finally stopped fighting me and sprinted ahead himself, tripping over a root and diving head first into the dirt.
    • Her bare feet beat against the ground, stumbling over roots of the giant trees, until she came to a halt at the very center of the enormous trees.
    • It can grow in soil with limited moisture because of its ability to send roots deep into the soil to tap water there.
    • When planted, the underground portion forms roots and the above ground portion forms branches and leaves.
    • Don't plant trees with deep roots, especially invasive species such as willows.
    • I pulled myself onto the muddy bank with the tree roots and low hanging branches.
    • Where the path went over a root, steps were cut into the wood and passage along the path was easy.
    • The chickens were then brought to the edge of the stream and alongside a large tree which had its roots in the water.
    • This is the same process used by trees to carry water from their roots to their leaves.
    • Water at the roots will keep plant stems and leaves turgid and able to photosynthesize.
    • But trees help control runoff by soaking water in through their roots and providing sturdy support against erosion.
    • Miles suddenly staggered forward, his foot caught on a root.
    Synonyms
    radicle, rhizome, rootstock, tuber, tap root, rootlet
    1. 1.1 The persistent underground part of a plant, especially when fleshy and enlarged and used as a vegetable, e.g. a turnip or carrot.
      （尤指肉质肥大，通常用作蔬菜的）根；块根
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Leafy vegetables, roots, and fruits completed the traditional diet.
      • In two medium saucepans, sauté the carrots and celery root with two tablespoons of butter separately.
      • Wash the roots and put them in a casserole dish with a lid.
      • It is basically young ginger roots preserved in syrup, so I tried and reproduce something similar using first-of-the-season young ginger.
      • In a saucepan, add veal shanks, tongue, leeks, parsnips, celery root, garlic, red wine and veal stock.
      • Add the carrot, celery root, onions, apples, and paprika and sauté until soft.
      • There actually looked to be enough meat left on the bones of her rabbit to cut up and fry along with some roots she found while hunting to supply a basic breakfast.
      • Add the onions and parsley root and sauté until translucent.
      • A few sweet roots, parsnips, carrots and a stalk of celery will add flavour to the pan juices.
      • Outside the cavern I had viewed various edible herbs and plants such as onions and turnips as well as roots and grasses.
      • These taste best when eaten raw, with the exception of lotus root, which should be thinly sliced and steamed or stir-fried.
      • Organisers also recognise ginger as ‘a root of empowerment in holistic medicine.’
      • Women gathered roots, prairie turnips, bitterroot, and camas bulbs in the early summer.
      • Even the accompanying potato and turnip gratin play off tuber and root, the warmth of one, the tang of the other.
      • Parsnips also make a wonderful soup and terrific fritters, and their long, blond roots are irresistible if roasted until the skinny tails scorch to a crisp.
      • From the mid-16th century suckets were made in Britain from local fruits, vegetables, and roots of many kinds.
      • In this street market, celeriac, parsley root, arugula and frisée were available.
      • Reduce the heat, add the carrots, celeriac, leeks, and parsley root and simmer until tender, about three hours.
      • These include turnips, cabbage, mustard, cassava root, soybeans, peanuts, pine nuts and millet.
      • First, there are the crisp, watery roots, such as carrots, jicama, radishes, and lotus root.
    2. 1.2 Any plant grown for its edible root.
      根用作物
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In three small studies, men taking nettle root reported slightly better urine flow than men who were given a placebo.
      • Beer made from manioc root is offered, and the family meal is shared.
      • Just when we thought you couldn't screw-up chocolate, someone goes and adds things like ginkgo biloba and bilberry root.
      • Licorice root happens to look just like an old cheroot cigarette.
      • Millie picked up a piece of mandrake root and broke it.
      • Sarsaparilla root contains saponins, which reduce microbes and toxins.
      • The diet of rural residents is based on the cassava root, which is called mandioca in Portuguese.
      • Both echinacea and goldenseal root have natural antibiotic activity and are extremely safe, when used as indicated on the label.
      • This way, when you buy some valerian root or St. John's wort, you'll know if there are any adverse reactions that you could get by using the herbal medication.
    3. 1.3 The embedded part of a bodily organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nail.
      （头发、牙齿、指甲等的）根，根部
      her hair was fairer at the roots

      她的头发根部更显金黄。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • She could feel the rough fingers gently cupping her neck and touching the roots of her hair.
      • While electrolysis sounds more threatening, the premise behind this method is that a needle zaps the hair at its root and kills it.
      • The shoulders of the young man lurched upwards in an irregular motion and his brows arched to the roots of his hair as he stared at his father.
      • He had short hair with brown roots and blonde tips and I'd have noted his eye color but he didn't look at me for very long and I hadn't been close enough to tell.
      • His two-toned blond hair with black roots was falling over his eyes and he tried to blow it upwards and out of his eyes, failing miserably.
      • The scarring types produce scars, which affect the hair root and destroy the papilla or matrix.
      • Even his hair and teeth clung to their roots, unlike the others who suffered from malnutrition.
      • Vitamins A, C and E facilitate the normal shedding of dead cells, and most B vitamins feed follicles and hair roots.
      • Severe flaking results from sebaceous glands, which are the glands near the roots of our hair.
      • His lofty glance seemed to measure her from the roots of her hair to the tips of her toes, leaving the girl stifling with self-consciousness.
      • The root of the hair extends down into the follicle and widens into a bulb at its base, which is the center of hair growth.
      • Waxing, on the other hand, pulls the entire hair out from the root.
      • I'd just sit in the little cuticle and chew my nails down to the roots, not caring if they put me in one of those straitjackets.
      • Her head turned to the vanity mirror, eyeing the blond roots of her hair that were growing in.
      • The brush-on pearlised colors in four shades are best applied on long hair when strands are held together and color stroked on from the root to the tip.
      • He was a middle aged man of Chinese origin, his hair greying at the roots and his body starting the road to terminal shutdown many years from then.
      • Start at the crown of your head, then flip your head upside down and lift your hair at the roots with your fingers.
      • I feel Mother's cold smile, her fingers releasing Nikola and his face relaxing when the roots of his hairs snap back into place in his skin.
      • She had blonde hair from her roots to her shoulders, then the color drastically changed like a person playing two different characters in a play.
      • Only later did the penny drop that there weren't enough molars to match the worn milk teeth, and that the roots of the teeth had resorbed to the point that indicated they had been shed naturally.
    4. 1.4 The part of a thing attaching it to a greater or more fundamental whole; the end or base.
      底部，基部
      a little lever near the root of the barrel

      接近桶底的一根小杆。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • A little deviation, and you will hit the spinal cord or the nerve root or damage the pedicle that supports the screw.
      • When they experience pain in the middle of the night in bed or while sitting, this is due to interference in circulation to the nerve root and spinal cords where it has been compressed.

  • 2The basic cause, source, or origin of something.

    根源，来源；原因

    love of money is the root of all evil

    金钱是万恶之源。

    jealousy was at the root of it

    嫉妒是此事的根源。

    as modifier the root cause of the problem

    这个问题的根本原因。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • While money is supposedly the root of all evil, the wealthy are much less likely to argue about money than most folks.
    • Pain is definitely at the root of weight gain for me.
    • Kurosawa draws the best possible performances from these actors by staying true to the source's roots as a play.
    • Technological innovation is an important source of variation in organizations and, in turn, a root of organizational adaptation.
    • Prejudice seems to be the chief root of discrimination.
    • Charlie had dealt with the root of his anger problem.
    • To Kaitlin, he looked like the root of all her nightmares.
    • The forces that shape history have their roots in the most basic conditions of social and economic life.
    • As no doctor could help, he began to examine himself in mirrors, eventually concluding that faulty postural habits lay at the root of his problem.
    • At root, their differences reflected wildly divergent political perspectives, as well as contending visions of the future.
    • If I had not experienced some degree of disappointment and been determined to find the root cause, I may not have gained important knowledge about myself.
    • The old saying, ‘Money is the root of all evil,’ came back to haunt her.
    • ‘It is a complex issue that goes to the root of sexual health matters,’ she says.
    • Perspectives are the root, the basic fiber, and the foundation of every social plague impoverishing us.
    • That, I guess, is the root of my fascination with this era.
    • This is very much a global liquidity crisis in the works, with unprecedented leveraged speculation at the root of the unfolding financial debacle.
    • There are endemic and perhaps diverse reasons at the root of inflation.
    • Sexual drive is at the root of humanity, and it is extremely resilient at the worst of times.
    • But the desire for power comes from envy which is the root cause of all evil.
    • ‘Failure to address added services at the point of origin is the root of payment failure,’ he says.
    Synonyms
    source, origin, starting point, seed, germ, beginnings, genesis
    1. 2.1 The essential substance or nature of something.
      根本；实质；本质
      matters at the heart and root of existence

      生存的核心和根本问题。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The basic root of copyright may well be to protect the ownership of a certain book, play, etc., from reproduction without the consent of the author.
      • Nonetheless, it is a language game whose root is very clear.
    2. 2.2roots Family, ethnic, or cultural origins, especially as the reasons for one's long-standing emotional attachment to a place or community.
      （尤指培育了个人对某一地点或地区居民长期深厚感情的家庭、民族及文化的）渊源，根；原籍
      it's always nice to return to my roots

      回到我的祖籍地总使我很高兴。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Colonization broke the power of the traditional rulers, but social status is still partially determined by a person's family roots.
      • Many Sansei long to know more about their cultural roots, although the ways of their grandparents are alien to them.
      • English cultural roots lie in a merging of Anglo-Saxon, Danish, and Norman French culture that has existed as a synthesis since the late Middle Ages.
      • As artists it is important that we be free no matter what our racial and ethnic roots are - to find and define and follow our aesthetic.
      • I want to hold on to my roots, my origins, my family, my friends.
      • Their region had most of the nation's industries, and their French cultural roots were considered an advantage.
      • In the broad Canadian scene, a diverse group of Baptists with different theological or ethnic roots has emerged.
      • It's about my background and about roots, family, music and manhood.
      • Many Americans of Bulgarian descent are re-discovering their ethnic roots.
      • People's sense of their cultural roots - a recognition of a place having a strong patina of age and strong local identity - is often instinctive.
      • With her memory of the past, their aunt serves as the instrument of a gendered return to their ethnic roots carried out in strongly ambivalent terms.
      • Children living on the street, the lack of family roots, and an increase in crime have brought tremendous social stresses to Latin American countries.
      • So most nationals prefer not to talk about their cultural roots and very often do not even know their ancestral tree.
      • Dictators and other political powers often suppress art because it provides a point of critical resistance, building a new national identity by evoking cultural roots.
      • This was somewhat ironic, as I know for a fact that my family once had its roots in the moors of England as well, and that we were one of the wealthier families and reviled by many.
      • Joey had curly brown hair and was as dark as an African American, but his family roots originate from Spain.
      • They and their families have their historical roots in the original villages.
      • After a few aimless years of drifting, he tries to find and establish ethnic roots similar to his own in order to rekindle the principles his father tried to instill in him.
      • Either he must assimilate in order to succeed or he must forego success for his ethnic roots and familial ties.
      • You'll probably need to learn a lot more about each other's religious and ethnic roots, as well as introduce your children to a host of varied rituals.
      Synonyms
      origins, beginnings, family, ancestors, predecessors
    3. 2.3as adjective roots Denoting or relating to something from a particular ethnic or cultural origin, especially a non-Western one.
      （尤指音乐）与某民族（或某文化）有渊源的（尤指源自非西方民族或非西方文化）
      roots music

      本土音乐。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The stage, however, plays host not to righteous roots reggae or foam-mouthed punk rock, but to a scattered group of girls in school uniform.
      • Bilyeu, along with his brother and cousins, play in Big Smith, a mountain roots band that bridge the gap between traditional Appalachian gospel and modern country.
      • Their seminal blend of jazz, Afro-Cuban music and roots traditions continues to influence modern West and Central African music.
      • His output was a fusion of everything good in music at the time - chunky punk guitar, killer pop tunes and horns and baselines with a deep ska / roots influence.
      • One song was roots rock, the next featured reggae backbeats.
      • After signing with Zoë, a division of roots label Rounder, they returned re-energized with Open in 2001.
      • Offered without sound but backed by the movie's manic bump and grind roots rock, they grow dull quickly.
      • With their previous two albums, they had become the darlings of the roots rock scene.
      • As the show ended and fans filed to the exits only one thing was missing from this roots reverie - just a little more time.
      • Walford Tyson's plaintive, soulful voice floats over deep roots grooves, sweet chord changes and juicy horn stabs; the production is warm, deep and crisp.
      • It's hard enough for most British bands to capture that roots vibe without sounding phoney or just plain ridiculous, but they pull it off and keep their own unique character too.
      • It is not awful, but its steady flow of roots rock near-misses is, at the very least, disheartening.
      • For 10 years running, VP Records annually pumps out compilations that pull from their massive dancehall and roots reggae catalogue.
      • But that's not the typical response to this countrified roots rock.
      • Paul thought he would give this roots business one more chance.
    4. 2.4 (in biblical use) a scion; a descendant.
      〈圣经〉根苗，苗裔
      the root of David

      以色列国王大卫的苗裔。

    5. 2.5Linguistics A morpheme, not necessarily surviving as a word in itself, from which words have been made by the addition of prefixes or suffixes or by other modification.
      〔语言学〕词根
      many European words stem from this linguistic root

      许多欧洲词汇源于这个词根。

      as modifier the root form of the word

      这个单词的词根。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's pretty clear, based on Green's paper-doll explanation, that the root morpheme must have been puppet.
      • Significantly, the root of bahelawi is bahel, meaning culture.
      • I do not intend ‘rational’, in this sense, but, rather, in the sense of its Latin root, ratio, meaning reason.
      • So, Eskimoan languages are really extraordinary in their productive word-building capability, for any root you might pick.
      • Words combine with words, or prefixes and suffixes combine with roots, in ways that over time drift away from perfect sense.
    6. 2.6Music The fundamental note of a chord.
      〔乐〕根音
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I have an idea of the flavour now - the root note of the melody, gently picked electric guitar, a line or two of vocals.
      • Where there is no figure under a note, the convention is that this denotes the most common chord, which Mr Protheroe describes as a root-position chord; i.e a triad with a root note, the third above and the fifth above.
      • He's just about incompetent whenever he tries anything but the root of the chord, so it's not like we're getting much help from that side, either.
      • Smith's multitracked trumpets mimic the weary blare of the foghorns, often taking their pitches as the root notes for fantastic chords.
      • This is all captured in the toy sax sound that just honks the root note as if someone who can't really play the sax has been given one lesson and one take to give it their best shot.

  • 3Mathematics
    A number or quantity that when multiplied by itself, typically a specified number of times, gives a specified number or quantity.

    〔数〕根

    find the cube root of the result

    求出这个答数的立方根。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's hard enough trying to remember cubed roots and the average lifespan of an amoeba.
    1. 3.1
      short for square root
    2. 3.2 A value of an unknown quantity satisfying a given equation.
      方程根
      the roots of the equation differ by an integer

      方程根会因整数不同而不同。

  • 4Computing
    often as modifier A user account with full and unrestricted access to a system.

    make sure that these files can only be accessed by the root user
    I need to log in as root on my system to resolve an issue
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Run this command either with your normal user ID or as root; no command-line options are necessary.
    • Log on to the system as a user with root authority.
    • The greatest threat to a typical Linux installation, in my opinion, is a careless root user.
    • I logged in as root and created an account for myself.
    • The root account allows the user to perform any command and access any data.
verbro͞otrut
[with object]

  • 1Cause (a plant or cutting) to grow roots.

    使（植物，插枝）生根

    root your own cuttings from stock plants

    从繁殖用植物上剪下枝条，自己进行插枝培植。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They are the easiest rose to start from seed, and also the easiest to root from cuttings.
    • The best way to propagate your favorites is to root stem cuttings taken from your own plants in spring.
    • The earlier the cuttings are rooted the taller will be the blooming plants.
    • A Yoshino cherry is propagated by grafting a cutting onto another cherry trunk or by rooting small cuttings.
    • When using the second method for rooting hardwood cuttings of deciduous plants you do everything exactly the same as you do with method number one, up to the point where you bury them for the winter.
    • I've heard of people rooting rose cuttings, but have never succeeded at it.
    • To prepare an area in which to root cuttings you must first select a site.
    • An easy way to overwinter desirable varieties is to root cuttings in the fall.
    • It's a good time to root stem cuttings so you will have new plants for the garden next spring.
    • I have successfully rooted plumeria branches broken from my plants.
    • I cut it back to bring indoors and rooted the cuttings.
    • To keep a variety indefinitely, root a few stem cuttings every year.
    • With all of that said, today it is possible to grow Pink Dogwoods by rooting cuttings under intermittent mist.
    • They are easily rooted from cuttings, so I rarely bother gathering seeds from them.
    • Take geranium cuttings of two to four inches to root indoors.
    • About six months after you have rooted your cutting, you can transplant it directly into the garden, if you choose.
    • There are three different techniques for rooting cuttings of deciduous plants.
    Synonyms
    plant, bed out, sow
    1. 1.1no object (of a plant or cutting) establish roots.
      使（植物，插枝）生根
      large trees had rooted in the canal bank

      许多大树扎根在运河岸边。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Supply high humidity, warmth and light in order for the cuttings to root within four to five weeks.
      • Once the stem has rooted it can be cut free of the mother plant.
      • Now is the right time of year to take cuttings of rosemary which roots very easily in sand.
      • These include the ability of mother plants to produce plenty of wood, the ease with which cuttings root, and also the ease with which they can be grafted.
      • Severe fires incinerate duff and all plants rooted there.
      • Once the succulents are rooted (in four weeks), he transfers them to pots or garden beds.
      • The resulting soil is loose and fast draining, which encourages plants to root deeply, well away from the desiccating heat at the surface.
      • I had a sudden premonition of the proud tower reduced to a pile of rubble overgrown by the plants that had rooted in its mossy crevices.
      • Keep moist and a high percentage of the cuttings will root in four to five weeks.
      • The cuttings root very easily in sand or in a rooting medium.
      • Begin mowing when the lawn is firmly rooted, a month or two after planting.
      • At the time the young plant, having rooted, is placed in a pot, where it will remain for some two to three months.
      • And remember, trees growing in lawns are rooted in the same soil as the grass and rarely require separate nitrogen fertilizer programs.
      • Cluster-forming bulbous plants, such as daffodils, can be split after they have rooted a few years.
      • The system includes a root-repellent membrane to prevent plants from rooting in the roof, a drainage system and a growing medium that is lighter than the soil used on the ground.
      • The dome will keep the stems from drying out until the plant is rooted.
      • Because it is busy rooting, any growth that you may have seen on the bulb will slow down until the plant is rooted - so don't panic of things seem to come to a dead halt.
      • The pool's dark surface is patterned with the reflection of a few bare trees that appear to be rooted within and just beyond the pool itself.
      • Thicker layers may reduce the amount of oxygen in the soil and encourage plants to root in the mulch layer rather than in the soil.
      • Dryland corn is rooting at the three foot depth and, even with high temperatures and lack of precipitation, it is looking good.
      Synonyms
      take root, grow roots, become established, establish, strike, take

  • 2be rooted inEstablish deeply and firmly.

    扎根于，在…中根深蒂固

    vegetarianism is rooted in Indian culture

    素食主义在印度文化中根深蒂固。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • If it succeeds, the core will no longer be rooted in just one civilization (the West), but will span several continents in a global network of power and prosperity.
    • There, the death penalty is rooted in popular culture (even to the present).
    • As a result, the design is rooted in two quite different yet familiar building types - the cottage and the loft.
    • Yet government-encouraged efforts to root Protestantism in Welsh culture were paying off by the end of the century.
    • Third, the acceptance of despotic rule and the rejection of effective constitutional limitations on government are deeply rooted in tradition and religion.
    • Perceived as gender-neutral, these practices were rooted in old, idealised images of masculinity.
    • Such an approach has often been taken to be a break with the past, but is rooted in more than two millennia of logical and grammatical system-building.
    • Christianity, even as the dominant religion, has always had strains that cut against the mainstream, while still being rooted in and influenced by the culture and society of a particular time and place.
    • Arthur is presented as a multifaceted figure, not one rooted in any particular area or with obvious historical roots.
    • Violence against women is a complex issue as it is rooted in masculinist structures of power.
    • After all, it is deeply rooted in discrimination.
    • The images suggested that the progress made by African Americans after the Civil War was rooted in the process of Americanization itself.
    • While his intentions are deeply rooted in exploring black masculinity, the context of his work becomes part of a larger dialogue concerning race in America today.
    • ‘We are rooted in the worlds of art and culture,’ she says.
    • While indigo is no longer a tool of oppression, it is still an area rooted in fiefdom and intolerance.
    • The whole essence of a gentleman is rooted in inequality.
    • Mental illness was rooted in a loss of existential freedom, leading to alienation and social exclusion.
    • It is a paradox that Augustine would not have accepted, but it is rooted in the pragmatic imagination as a workable metaphysics.
    • Swearing is rooted in the discourse of mortality.
    • The ultimate effect is the emerging sense of values that resonates from these stories rooted in the delicate areas of modern life.
    Synonyms
    embedded, fixed, firmly established, implanted
    1. 2.1be rooted in Have as an origin or cause.
      根源在于，由…产生
      the Latin dubitare is rooted in an Indo-European word

      拉丁文dubitare源自一个印欧语系单词。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Together, they harness decades of experience in a variety of styles to make a musical statement that is rooted in tradition but with no fear of improvisation.
      • And part of our decision-making about what to publish and what to pursue is rooted in those unanswered questions.
      • My beef, as it would be, is rooted in your first two sentences.
      • His concerns were rooted in society, not theology.
      • So when, during a lecture on D.H. Lawrence, Bill mentioned that the writer's sexual problems were rooted in his relationship with his mother, there was dead silence.
      • His humour and his mad, mad giggle were rooted in an irreverence that couldn't let him take anything too seriously - especially himself.
      • Who I am now is rooted in where I began and has been developed by where I have been since, and to ask my fromness is to ask my identity.
      • The origins of the new disaster were rooted in Menem's years.
      • Many of these clinical problems are already recognized as being rooted in, or exacerbated by, stress; it is Sarno's association of these disease entities with repressed rage that makes his theory unique.
      • The origins of convivial practices on the mainland appear to have been rooted in the private sphere of elite social values, which emphasized generosity and hospitality in the framework of direct, reciprocal transactions.
      • This social gaze is rooted in and reinforces moral assumptions that link being a good mother to caring and being a good father to earning.
      • Food and farming, after all, are rooted in living plants and animals.
      • No, the whole lack of pre-marriage activity (to be blunt: the total lack of a social life) was what my puzzlement was rooted in.
      • The ideological context of these exchanges over public policy is rooted in, and sustained by, references to the past.
      • With him abstract work came from within, while figurative work and even abstraction from nature were rooted in external stimuli.
      • This abstract world gains its power from being rooted in very real emotions and anxieties that have haunted cinema since The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, another powerful film about the fragile nature of identity in the face of fantasy.
      • Their method of art practice was rooted in political protest that rejected the more readily legible and democratic tropes of social realism.
      • Those strange new paintings were rooted in the Maori figurative traditions that emerged on the East Coast in the late 19th century.
      • Panofsky's contention that Van Eyck literally painted a marriage certificate was rooted in two early accounts of the picture.
      • His work was rooted in a landscape, religion and a rural way of life.

  • 3often as adjective rootedCause (someone) to stand immobile through fear or amazement.

    （因畏惧、惊奇而）生了根似的不动；一动不动

    she found herself rooted to the spot in disbelief

    她发觉自己因怀疑而站在那里一动不动。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I feel like I should go running after the little girl, but suddenly I'm rooted to the spot.
    • His only thoughts were to escape, but fear rooted him to the spot.
    • May was inching slowly closer to David, who stood rooted to the spot.
    • We stood rooted to the spot, staring at each other.
    • He was momentarily speechless, rooted to the ground in the middle of the spacious air conditioned bedroom.
    • The four other students stood rooted to the spot.
    • I felt as though cold water had just been dumped over my head, shocking me and rooting me to the spot.
    • Lizzie didn't touch her jacket; she was frozen, rooted to her seat, trapped in a strange coma-like state.
    • I stood rooted to the ground, not knowing how or what to react to my current feeling.
    • She froze in place, her arms and legs locking together, her feet rooted to the ground.
    • As it was, I stood rooted to the spot with shock and it missed.
    • Waiting until the snake was only a foot or two away, while I stood rooted to the ground with fright, he took careful aim at it, and missed - twice.
    • Stunned at this cover-up, I was rooted to the spot.
    • But for some reason she couldn't move, as though she were rooted to the spot.
    • But her feet seemed rooted to the ground and the spectacle of that great, angry crowd tearing towards her paralysed her with terror.
    • Like a cornered animal, she remained rooted in place, gripping her purse.
    • Torn by conflicting emotions, I stood rooted to the spot.
    • Then he stopped at the last cage, rooted to the ground in shock.
    • It will root you in your seat, when it doesn't have you on the edge of it, or leaping up and cheering.
    • Lizzie didn't know what to do, she was as surprised as he, and her feet seemed rooted to the ground.
    Synonyms
    unable to move from, frozen to, riveted to, paralysed to, glued to, fixed to

  • 4Computing
    Gain access to the root account of (a smartphone or computer)

    we explained how to manually root almost any Android device
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The program allows you to customize your user interface without having to root the device.
    • The proportion of people who want to recompile their phone OS is even smaller than the number who want to root their phone.
    • Before you can start to do anything to your phone, you'll need to root it, which means basically to unlock the security settings put in place in the OS to prevent it from being altered.
    • I personally cannot wait to root the phone and run custom ROMs.
    • If I want to root my device, there's a very small chance that it's because I want to copy a movie, and a good chance that I want to take a screenshot of my widget setup, or play with a faster ROM.

Phrases

  • at root

    • Basically; fundamentally.

      实际上，根本上，本质上

      it is a moral question at root

      这实质上是个道德问题。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • But there is at root here something far more fundamental.
      • But these are cavils and, at root, only the difference between fact and a greater, truth-telling fiction.
      • Psychoanalysis defines subjectivity as ‘the history of one's identifications,’ which are at root violent and subject to inversion.
      • And let's not get into the limitations of narrative structure and formulas of what makes a good story, since, of course, they're fairly archetypal (that is, repetitive) at root.
      • Ignoring the physical, technological underpinnings for now, we assert that the library is, at root, a collection of information selected for use of, and made useable for, a particular community.
      • Despite the length of my approach to it the question is, at root, quite a short one.
      • They don't exist independently of their sources; they are a direct reflection of source activity - and therefore, at root, a tediously self-fulfilling prophecy.
      • Those of us pining for the sensuality of the tropical island often forget that paradise is, at root, a religious notion.
      • And if in spite or because of new learning people still inhabit that universe then it's going to have a very profound effect on whether you accept at root the fundamental principles of western psychology for dealing with your problems.
      • But because the subordination is inspired at root by anxiety and denial, it is not a peaceable subordination.

  • put down roots

    • 1(of a plant) begin to draw nourishment from the soil through its roots.

      （植物）扎根

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Some varieties, however, will spend their first year putting down roots vis-a-vis growing stems and flowers.
      1. 1.1(of a person) begin to have a settled life in a particular place.
        （人）安家落户；开始定居下来过稳定的生活
        Example sentencesExamples
        • World War II wrought the second transformation, when defence industries began putting down roots.
        • If the parents who turned up for the talk are a snap shot of the families which are putting down roots in Newbridge, then the school building and its surroundings are also a microcosm of the booming town.
        • More than 1,300 a week may visit the site, but of those, only 530 bothered to sign up to request further information on the possibilities and practicalities of putting down roots in Scotland.
        • Against this background, amid this natural wonder, men have chosen to settle themselves and put down roots.
        • Or is it something much more ephemeral, a sense of comfort, of forming bonds and putting down roots in an alien landscape?
        • You think they're not talking about it, but they are putting down roots.
        • In putting down roots, we decide where we want to be buried.
        • The olive oil produced here is world-class, and Britons in search of la dolce vita are putting down roots in the area.
        • Temporary visas mean life in limbo, with no prospect of family reunion or settling, and putting down roots.
        • We stayed, bought a house and started a family, happy to be putting down roots in such a lovely city.
        Synonyms
        settle, become established, establish oneself, make one's home, set up home

  • root and branch

    • Used to express the thorough or radical nature of a process or operation.

      全部的（地），完全的（地）；彻底的（地）

      root and branch reform of personal taxation

      个人所得税的彻底改革。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The place really is in dire need of root and branch reform.
      • This, of course, is a post hoc error, one that most Americans reject, root and branch.
      • Pakistan, which is not a member of this grouping, has also been expressing its resolve to destroy the menace root and branch.
      • You see, when someone attacks our caravans, we go after 'em root and branch.
      • The United States and other countries should be working to eradicate it, root and branch.
      • We need a council of the Church that includes both the laity and the bishops and the clergy to get at this problem root and branch.
      • Mr Davis takes issue with this claim root and branch.
      • But there is another possibility altogether: An individual or a community may entirely reject its own visceral code, root and branch, for the sake of what it has come to see as an ethically superior plane of existence.
      • While one might want to ridicule a particular expression of curiosity, he would be careful of dismissing curiosity root and branch.
      • This show demonstrates the determination of these artists not simply to rewrite the rules of fine art, but to recreate every aspect of their visual world, root and branch.
      Synonyms
      completely, entirely, wholly, totally, utterly, thoroughly
      complete, total, entire, utter, thorough

  • strike at the root (or roots) of

    • Affect in a vital area with potentially destructive results.

      摧毁…的基础，根绝

      the proposals struck at the roots of community life

      这些建议摧毁了社区生活的基础。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • But, he went on to say that the recent events ‘are of far greater concern because they strike at the roots of our free society, one aspect of which is our market-driven economy’.
      • Others had more strident critiques of American society and envisioned radical social changes that struck at the root of inequality.
      • The objective is to strike at the root of psychosomatic problems.
      • Always suspicious to the point of paranoia, Constantius struck at the roots of conspiracy.
      • Connective aesthetics strikes at the root of this alienation by dissolving the mechanical division between self and the world that has prevailed during the modern epoch.
      • I see the ability to be alone in the wild as an achievement, something truly radical that strikes at the root of our increasingly presumptuous levels of socialization.
      • The elimination of the peasants' opposition, therefore, struck at the roots of the October Revolution.
      • Taken to the limit, of course, this line of reasoning would strike at the root of all empirical knowledge.
      • This is a poverty that strikes at the root of national prosperity.…
      • The Attorney-General's contention, if correct, strikes at the root of this basic principle.

  • take root

    • 1(of a plant) begin to grow and draw nourishment from the soil through its roots.

      （植物）扎根

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The living roof itself is a compost based system, usually a base of straw left to decompose within which native or introduced plants can then take root.
      • Cotton was to have been the establishing crop of the Ord development, and it took root robustly.
      • Others spread aggressively by stolons (stems that creep along the soil surface, taking root and forming new plants at intervals).
      • Samphire extract is derived from the Samphire plant that takes root and thrives in rocky coastal areas.
      • With wear, the soles release seeds, some of which take root and clean the environment through phytoremediation, a process by which certain natural plants can destroy hazardous contaminants in the ground.
      • It spread over the floor with a fecund exuberance that brought to mind cypress vines, plants that take root wherever they touch the ground.
      • A shallow, bleached pit in the center marks the spot where a cluster of trees once took root.
      • Over time, the ivy will take root in the moss, and will continue to grow, so you'll need to continue pinning the ivy to the moss as it grows, and maybe cut it back if it starts to take over.
      • Still, there are signs that the field is beginning to take root.
      • The scattered seeds take root and grow to their full potential.
      Synonyms
      begin to germinate, begin to sprout, establish, strike, take
      1. 1.1Become fixed or established.
        扎根；被牢固树立；固定不动
        the idea had taken root in my mind

        这个想法在我的头脑里扎了根。

        Example sentencesExamples
        • Democracy took root by fits and starts thereafter, until 1990 when a new constitution restored constitutional monarchy and established a multi-party system of parliamentary government, which is now firmly in place.
        • Nevertheless, the idea took root in their minds.
        • Spatial sequences merging across the shifting levels prevent fixed identities from taking root anywhere.
        • Predictably, that opening rang the death knell for our store, which sat empty until a flea market took root behind the by-then broken and boarded windows, while the parking lot became a haven for drug deals.
        • Of course, generations of American thinkers had fertilized the soil in which Coué's ideas took root.
        • Because he had little to say about social need and there was no legislative provision for subsidising loss-making services, the idea took root that the issue had simply been ignored.
        • As these ideas took root, they were accompanied by a change in philosophy regarding the ruler and the subject.
        • Our tour guide was exceptional, explaining the economic and political changes that had swept over Honduras since democracy took root.
        • I quickly stomped on that idea before it fully took root.
        • Hence, petrarchismo never took root in Milan; even when Arcadian poetics held sway in Bologna and Rome in the eighteenth century, dialect poetry was prominent in Milan.
        Synonyms
        become established, establish itself, become fixed, take hold

Phrasal Verbs

  • root something out

    • 1Dig or pull up a plant by the roots.

      连根挖起，连根拔起

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was told to root the plants out immediately.
      • If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day… fifty the day after that… and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions.
      Synonyms
      uproot, tear something up by the roots, pull something up, grub something out
      1. 1.1Find and get rid of someone or something regarded as pernicious or dangerous.
        根除，铲除，根绝
        a campaign to root out corruption

        一场根除腐败的运动。

        Example sentencesExamples
        • After decades of struggle by activists the government finally accepted that institutional racism exists and promised that it would root it out of public bodies.
        • In line with this policy, they handed her over to be tried as a witch by a combination of a Church Court and the Holy Roman Inquisition, set up to maintain the absolute divine authority of the Church by rooting out all heresy.
        • The local authorities have to do the main job of finding these gangs and rooting them out.
        • With frightening swiftness, nearly all enemy agents inside Confederation borders were rooted out, systematically hunted down, and then eliminated.
        • One-in-three claiming to have been hit by untraced drivers drop their claims upon investigation by the bureau - 400 dodgy claims are rooted out in the initial stages of investigation every year.
        • He urged the taxi industry to forge close links with the police so that these elements could be rooted out once and for all.
        • If he doesn't present himself, we're going to root him out, and we'll defeat him in kind that way.
        • If there are anti-competitive practices in the professions which are hurting consumers and damaging our economy then we must identify them and root them out.
        • There were pockets of corruption, but our efforts to root it out are beginning to yield results.
        • Our goal is to help our readers recognize this aberrant species of leader, effectively deal with them, and then hopefully root them out of the workplace.
        • Until they can be rooted out, hopes for lasting peace will have hardly advanced at all.
        • He once said, ‘The country will see no hope if regional grudges are not rooted out.’
        • But the breadth of corruption makes the challenge of rooting it out more difficult.
        • The sooner they are rooted out and dealt with the sooner we may be able to curtail what is now a worrying trend.
        • Rome abhorred the practice and rooted it out when encountered among others, although when writing of the Druidic rituals of the Celts and the taking of heads for trophies they probably exaggerated for propaganda purposes.
        • A whole rethink and development of policies which will put the nation on the road to economic recovery is necessary, so that poverty can be rooted out.
        • Basically, the government should get tougher with those who send such e-mails for their own profits and a national campaign should be launched until the evil practice is rooted out.
        • We can all do our part to defend against them and to root them out.
        • Typos appear in virtually every book, and it's up to the proofreaders and typesetters to root them out.
        • We will either root it out and extinguish it wherever it may hide, or it will find us and strip us of our safety, happiness and everything we cherish.
        Synonyms
        eradicate, get rid of, eliminate, weed out, remove, destroy, put an end to, do away with, wipe out, stamp out, extirpate, abolish, extinguish
        unearth, dig up, dig out, turn up, bring to light, uncover, discover, dredge up, ferret out, hunt out, nose out, expose

Origin

Late Old English rōt, from Old Norse rót; related to Latin radix, also to wort.

root2

verbro͞otrut

  • 1no object, with adverbial (of an animal) turn up the ground with its snout in search of food.

    （动物）用鼻（或嘴）拱土觅食

    stray dogs rooting around for bones and scraps

    用鼻拱土四处寻找骨头和残羹剩饭的流浪狗。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We passed through a narrow gate, left open, and saw an empty cattle shed, and next to it a circular pig sty, with a few great swine rooting through the strawy mud.
    • On the Bowling Green near Manhattan's southern tip, for instance, stood a vacant pedestal enclosed by an iron fence around which stray pigs often rooted.
    • At night we saw dogs rooting in the shadows, and men walking in the cold, their hands drifting out of warm pockets reaching for what?
    1. 1.1 Search unsystematically through an untidy mass or area; rummage.
      翻找；搜寻
      she was rooting through a pile of papers

      她在一堆文书里翻找东西。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • These young designers root through junk piles and garage sales to create one-of-a-kind, quirky pieces of furniture.
      • With shaking limbs, she rose from her bed, stumbled to the small wardrobe that held her few remaining possessions and started rooting through them, searching frantically.
      • Bounding to the bathroom, he rooted through the cabinets, stuffing everything he found into pockets and hiding places in his sweaters and tunic.
      • She handed him her brown bag and he rooted through it.
      • He was rooting through his pack for matches when Pierre-Jacques, no doubt assuming he was doing us a favor, soaked the assemblage in gasoline and ignited it with a cigarette lighter.
      • The girl rushes to join her mother, who is rooting through some old piles of lace handkerchiefs.
      • She sighed and started rooting though her rations pack looking for more food.
      • He looks over at Tim, who is wearing a pair of headphones over one ear and is rooting around in his jeans pockets for something, probably food.
      • He turned and rooted through a pile of folders on a table beside him.
      • Ignoring his morals and his upbringings, Brad continued to root through the drawer in search of the gun.
      • The burden would then be on them to root through all their files in search of infringing items.
      • We had to root around a bit to find food first, but had good luck eventually.
      • There was a big pile of stuff in the corner and I rooted through it and felt like a dog searching for a bone or a pig looking for a truffle.
      • Laura, in her nightgown, notices that Tom's bed is empty while he roots around in his pockets on the fire escape in search of his key.
    2. 1.2root something outwith object Find or extract something by rummaging.
      找出；查出；发掘出
      he managed to root out the cleaning kit

      他设法找出了那套打扫用具。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The small band of loyal fans like me (I was born the same year as Myra) were reduced to rooting out his records only in 19-cent remainder bins.
      • I thought I'd rooted out all the hidden food in our kitchen.
      • It is a specialist search tool, specifically refined to root out the bargains you're looking for and leave out the items you're not.
nounro͞otrut

  • An act of rooting.

    翻找；搜寻；发掘

    I have a root through the open drawers

    我翻找了一下拉开的抽屉。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They had a bloody good root in all our stuff, just for the hell of it.

Phrasal Verbs

  • root for

    • Support or hope for the success of (a person or group entering a contest or undertaking a challenge)

      〈非正式〉支持；赞助；声援（个人或团体参加比赛或接受挑战）

      the whole of this club is rooting for him

      这个俱乐部里所有的人都在支持他。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • By the end you'll be rooting for our British hope and begging for the romantic payoff.
      • If he roots for anything, he says, it is for hard-luck cases, big comebacks - in other words, ‘a good story.’
      • So rooting for a team becomes a display of patriotism.
      • I rooted for the main characters and hoped the bad ones would meet a bad end.
      • They root for the hero, exult at his successes, are anxious for his triumph, and suffer at his reversals.
      • But you know, I think your point is that I think maybe some of the jurors are sort of rooting for him secretly.
      • And you've got to know so many people are rooting for you and your family.
      • And yet… could they really trust the happy reaction of a hometown crowd so inclined to root for their success?
      • The room exploded with shouts and cheers as people rooted for their favorite.
      • As the crowd applauds, you can't help rooting for him, too.
      Synonyms
      cheer, applaud, cheer on, support, encourage, urge on, shout for

  • root someone on

    〈北美，非正式〉为…欢呼；为…鼓气

    • Cheer or spur someone on.

      〈北美，非正式〉为…欢呼；为…鼓气

      his mother rooted him on enthusiastically from ringside

      他的母亲从台边区拼命为他加油。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The others were rooting Jerry on by saying, ‘Go Jerry!’
      • I was rooting him on, along with the others in his small but fervent peanut gallery.
      • I didn't play my best, but the knowledge that a friendly face was in the stands, rooting me on, definitely helped.
      • Your father, who had won a bronze medal in the Olympics in 1956, was one of those rooting you on.
      • And Spencer Tracy, he told me once, would visit the set of other movies being shot and root them on.
      • Just tell me who was there rooting you on when you were even trying out for those rinky-dink teams?
      • If you sponsor races or leagues, ensure that at least one club employee attends the events and makes it known to members that he or she is there rooting them on.
      • So he can come watch me fight and he can keep on rooting me on.
      • There were fans screaming and yelling and rooting us on.
      • ‘There's a lot of instant gratification, with other people rooting them on, like a game show,’ Bloom says.

Origin

Old English wrōtan, of Germanic origin; related to Old English wrōt ‘snout’, German Rüssel ‘snout’, and perhaps ultimately to Latin rodere ‘gnaw’.

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