网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的词汇:

 

词汇 green fingers
释义

Definition of green fingers in English:

green fingers

plural noun
British informal
  • Natural ability in growing plants.

    〈英,非正式〉天赋的种植技能,种植花木蔬菜的天赋

    you really do have green fingers
    North American term green thumb
    orchids are the supreme test for green fingers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The sunny south-westerly garden should appeal to those with green fingers.
    • Running a garden centre requires special skills, and is also very labour intensive as anyone with green fingers will know.
    • Everyone from five to 95 can get involved and nobody is so busy or lacking in green fingers that they can't plant a window-box.
    • Hemant himself loved gardening and was born with green fingers.
    • I need to do quite a lot of digging and planting very soon, but I really haven't got green fingers.

Derivatives

  • green-fingered

  • adjective
    British informal
    • She was never very green-fingered, and when the plant arrived with me it was in a sorry state and infested with red spider mite.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is one of the hardiest house plants known to man or woman, which should endear it at once to everyone who isn't green-fingered.
      • Organisers hope green-fingered gardeners will be hard at work to ensure that come July, the borough is blooming.
      • The arts and craft fair committee want green-fingered villagers to contribute to the plant stall by growing seeds or taking cuttings.
      • Botanical experts are urging green-fingered homeowners to help save endangered native species.

Definition of green fingers in US English:

green fingers

plural nounˌɡrin ˈfɪŋɡərz
British informal
  • Natural ability in growing plants; a green thumb.

    〈英,非正式〉天赋的种植技能,种植花木蔬菜的天赋

    you really do have green fingers
    orchids are the supreme test for green fingers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Hemant himself loved gardening and was born with green fingers.
    • Everyone from five to 95 can get involved and nobody is so busy or lacking in green fingers that they can't plant a window-box.
    • Running a garden centre requires special skills, and is also very labour intensive as anyone with green fingers will know.
    • The sunny south-westerly garden should appeal to those with green fingers.
    • I need to do quite a lot of digging and planting very soon, but I really haven't got green fingers.
随便看

 

春雷网英语在线翻译词典收录了464360条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2000-2024 Sndmkt.com All Rights Reserved 更新时间:2024/12/28 0:03:05