seed
seed
英[siːd]美[siːd]
n.种子，子孙，起源，（尤指网球比赛）种子选手；
vt.播种，抽出种子选手，除去…之种子，确定（某人）为种子选手；
vi.结籽，（种子）繁殖；
复数：seeds;
第三人称单数：seeds;
过去式：seeded;
过去分词：seeded;
现在分词：seeding;
例句
It’s shocking how he has gone to seed in last few years.近年来他衰颓的程度令人吃惊。
In the spring I use the rake to make a good seed bed.春天我用耧耙耘好地作好苗床。
Even if you plant the seed upside down,the roots will still grow down.即使你把种子倒过来种,根须还是往下长。
We sowed our vegetable seed yesterday.Have you sown yours?昨天我们播下了菜籽, 你也播了吗?
Some plants will not seed in a cold climate.有些植物在寒冷的气候条件下不能结果实。
The younger Williams is the top seed at Wimbledon.小威廉姆斯是温布尔登网球公开赛的头号种子选手。
After the harvest, the peasants began to prepare the soil for seed.收割后, 农民就开始整地以便播种。
The farmer has grown the seed a big tree.这个农民种下的种子长成了大树。
By the end of a year the little seed and grain shop had developed its trade considerably.到年底,那个卖种子和粮食小店的生意有了相当大的发展。
Wang Nan was the No.１ seed in the table-tennis championship.王楠是这次乒乓球锦标赛中的第一号种子选手。
英语六级真题
There is a view that modern humans are inevitably sowing the seeds of a global Grand Banks-style disaster.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Other birds unknowingly carry seeds that cling to them for the ride.
出自-2016年12月听力原文Have we really gotten to the point that planting a seed can lead to a high-stakes Supreme Court patent lawsuit?
出自-2013年12月阅读原文But Monsanto, the agricultural giant, insists it has a patent on the kind of genetically modified seeds Bowman used―and that the patent continues to all of the progeny (后代)of those seeds.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文If farmers like Bowman are able to use these seeds without paying the designated fee, it will remove the incentives for companies like Monsanto to innovate.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文He used genetically modified seeds to feed his cattle
出自-2013年12月阅读原文He obtained Monsanto's patented seeds by illegal means.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文Abolish the patent law concerning genetically engineered seeds
出自-2013年12月阅读原文Bowman cannot plant the seeds without Monsanto's consent.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文Monsanto has the right to recover the costs of its patented seeds
出自-2013年12月阅读原文Patent law on genetically modified seeds should not be challenged.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文Whether patent for seeds is harmful to agricultural production
出自-2013年12月阅读原文In short, savings are the seed corn of a good economic harvest.
出自-2012年12月阅读原文What does the author mean by saying "savings are the seed corn of a good economic harvest" (Lines 3-4, Para
出自-2012年12月阅读原文In the seed world, that makes them rare, because most seeds from flowering plants are quite robust.
2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section BThe bird Clark's nutcracker, for example, hides up to 100, 000 seeds per year, up to 30 kilometers away from the seed source, and has a very close symbiotic(共生的) relationship with several pine species, most 32 notably the whitebark pine.
2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section AThese practices include grazing animals on grasses grown from the pastureland's natural seed bunk, and fertilized by the cows' own fertilizer.
2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
N-VAR
籽;种子
A seed is the small, hard part of a plant from which a new plant grows.
例句
...a packet of cabbage seed...一包卷心菜籽I sow the seed in pots of soil-based compost.我把种子种在几盆掺有堆肥的土里。VERB
在(地里)播种
If you seed a piece of land, you plant seeds in it.
例句
Men mowed the wide lawns and seeded them...人们割了大片草地的草，然后在上面播种。The primroses should begin to seed themselves down the steep hillside.报春花应该开始沿着陡峭的山坡一路撒播种子了。N-PLURAL
(感情、过程的)起源，开端，萌芽
You can refer to the seeds of something when you want to talk about the beginning of a feeling or process that gradually develops and becomes stronger or more important.
例句
He raised questions meant to plant seeds of doubts in the minds of jurors...他提出几个问题意欲引起陪审员的疑心。He considered that there were, in these developments, the seeds of a new moral order.他认为在这些事态发展中包蕴着一种新的道德秩序的萌芽。N-COUNT
(网球、羽毛球等体育项目中的)种子选手
In sports such as tennis or badminton, a seed is a player who has been ranked according to his or her ability.
例句
...Pete Sampras, Wimbledon's top seed and the world No.1...皮特·桑普拉斯，温布尔登网球锦标赛的头号种子，世界排名第一In the final Capriati, the third seed, defeated Katerina Maleeva.在决赛中，三号种子选手卡普里亚蒂击败了凯特林娜·马莉娃。VERB
将(选手或参赛队)排列名次
When a player or a team is seeded in a sports competition, they are ranked according to their ability.
例句
In the UEFA Cup the top 16 sides are seeded for the first round...在欧洲联盟杯比赛中，排名前 16 位的球队已按位次进入首轮。He is seeded second, behind Brad Beven...他被列为二号种子选手，位居布拉德·贝文之后。PHRASE
开花结籽
If vegetable plants go to seed or run to seed, they produce flowers and seeds as well as leaves.
例句
If unused, winter radishes run to seed in spring.如果不去动的话，冬萝卜会在春天开花结籽。PHRASE
衰老;风光不再;衰退;退化
If you say that someone or something has gone to seed or has run to seed, you mean that they have become much less attractive, healthy, or efficient.
例句
He says the economy has gone to seed...他说经济已经走向衰退。He was a big man in his forties; once he had a lot of muscle but now he was running to seed.他 40 多岁时很魁梧，曾经肌肉发达，但如今身体逐渐衰弱了。英汉词典释义
n.
种子
The farmers are scattering seed.农夫们在播种。(尤指网球比赛)种子选手
The younger Williams is the top seed at Wimbledon.小威廉姆斯是温布尔登网球公开赛的头号种子选手。子孙, 后裔
起源；起因；萌芽；开端
精液
vt.
播种
They seeded the field with wheat.他们在这块地里种下了小麦。除去…之种子
Seed the cherries before you put them in the pie.樱桃去籽之后才能做馅饼。抽出种子选手
I'm afraid he hasn't been seeded.恐怕他没有被选为种子选手吧。确定（某人）为种子选手
vi.
结籽
Some plants will not seed in a cold climate.有些植物在寒冷的气候条件下不能结果实。（种子）繁殖
英英词典释义
Noun
1. a small hard fruit
2. a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
3. one of the outstanding players in a tournament
4. anything that provides inspiration for later work
5. the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
Verb
1. go to seed; shed seeds;
"The dandelions went to seed"2. help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
3. bear seeds
4. place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth;
"She sowed sunflower seeds"5. distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
6. sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain;
"seed clouds"7. inoculate with microorganisms
8. remove the seeds from;
"seed grapes"行业词典
体育： 种子选手；
医学： 种子，籽：系开花植物的成熟胚珠；精液：同semen；种子形小管：用黄金或其他适当材料制成的圆柱状小管，用在放射疗法上；接种：将微生物接种在培养基上；
哲学： 种子；
旅游： 种子选手；
植物学： 种子；
药学： 种子；种子植物的胚珠经受精后长成的结构。；
