roots

单词音标

roots音标[ru:t]

汉语翻译

n. 乡土感情, 归根之情

词型变化

名词:rooter动词过去式:rooted过去分词:rooted现在分词:rooting第三人称单数:roots

词意辨析

origin, source, root

这些名词均有“起源、起因、根源”之意。

origin: 侧重指事物的起源或由来，也指人的出身。

source: 本义指河流或瀑布的源头，引申指某事的来源出处，但更多指抽象事物的根源或来源。

root: 通常指事物产生的原因或根源。

英语解释

名词 roots:

the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage

名词 root:

(botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground

同义词：root

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

同义词：root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical

the place where something begins, where it springs into being

同义词：beginning, origin, root, rootage, source

a number that when multiplied by itself some number of times equals a given number

同义词：root

the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation

同义词：solution, root

someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

同义词：ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root

a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes

同义词：etymon, root

the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support

同义词：root, tooth root

动词 root:

take root and begin to grow

同义词：root

come into existence, originate

同义词：root

plant by the roots

同义词：root

dig with the snout

同义词：rout, root, rootle

take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for

同义词：side, pull, root

become settled or established and stable in one\'s residence or life style

同义词：settle, root, take root, steady down, settle down

cause to take roots

同义词：root

例句

Who\'s been rooting about among my papers?

谁翻过我的文件了？

Unhappiness is the root cause of his illness.

不开心是他生病的根源。

Do you think the new rosebush has taken root?

你看新栽的玫瑰长根了吗？