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单词 vegetate
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vegetate
verb[I]
uk
/ˈvedʒ.ɪ.teɪt/us
/ˈvedʒ.ə.teɪt/
tolivein a way that has nophysicalandmentalactivity:
过呆板单调的生活；懒散地生活
Areourkidsspendingtoo muchtimevegetating infrontof the TV?孩子们无所事事地看电视的时间是不是太多了？
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(Definition ofvegetatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

vegetate| American Dictionary

vegetate
verb[I]
us
/ˈvedʒ·ɪˌteɪt/
(slangveg (out),us/ˈvedʒ ˈɑʊt/)
toliveorspendtimein a way thatlacksphysicalandmentalactivityandeffort:
Thechildrenjust vegetate infrontof the TV allmorning.
(Definition ofvegetatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvegetate

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This facilitates early germination of the cane sets, whichvegetatein the controlled traffic lanes until the spring season.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It occurs almost exclusively in slow-moving, heavily vegetated waters and is often found in the very shallowest water present.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This band is in the near infrared part of the spectrum which gives a strong contrast between vegetated, non-vegetated and water surfaces.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Prior to the road works, exposure 16 was rather small and densely vegetated.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Where socialists and employers saw vegetating humanity, communists saw activists.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Their presence requires a host plant on which they will feed, limiting the field study to vegetated areas.
From theCambridge English Corpus
We have the ability to nurture and destroy, to create and tovegetate.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Several blanks were used, including field blanks (ambient air at remote, near sampling and vegetated sites), laboratory air blanks and procedural blanks.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Keeping a man permanently without hope of release until he vegetates into old age is a terrible thing.
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As a result of continuing battles, supplies of food to the camps are interrupted, and refugees are left tovegetatein terrible conditions.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
This is not a matter that can be left vegetating for a long time.
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All justvegetateand seem lost to the world.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Television has given us the perfect excuse tovegetatein our own homes without speaking.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The refugees are condemned tovegetatein poverty, usually without employment, while their children grow up illiterate.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
She invented pollen so that the bare land could be vegetated for the animals to live upon.
From the
Hansard archive
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