词汇释义
verdantUK /ˈvɜː.dənt/ US /ˈvɝː.dənt/TEM8 GRE
adj, If you describe a place as verdant, you mean that it is covered with green grass, trees, and plants.草木覆盖的，长满绿色植物的
外刊例句
1. But for me, on holiday to the verdant, fruit-strewn island, the conflict seemed remote.(The Guardian - Travel)
2. But a verdant sprawl of 54 acres on the hill's crest is not available for money of any heft or colour.(The Guardian)
3. Raise your eyes and a verdant patch of forest comes into view - like a mirage in a desert.(The Guardian)
4. Public parks, verdant hills, salt-pans, school compounds, private garden plots, beaches, mangroves – nothing was spared.(The Guardian)
5. South Africa, for example, offers world-class service and technology from the air-conditioned offices and verdant lawns of Johannesburg's main banking district.(The Economist)
6. Residents say the government's aim was to bring good luck, but many regret that the once verdant view from the hill, looking away from the city, is now a mine-scarred dust bowl.(The Economist)
7. Farmers and fishermen in Grand'Anse, a verdant department that was hit badly by a recent hurricane, have seen sales plummet as customers spurn local foodstuffs.Potential investors are also being scared off by cholera, even though it can be easily prevented with good sanitation and clean drinking water (or treated by oral rehydration).(The Economist)
8. "In 20 years this will all be desert," says the owner of a vineyard near the Cape, standing among verdant vines. At the same time Africa's population, unlike Asia's, is growing fast.(The Economist)
9. The fact that so many allegedly green groups are keeping mum about this merely shows that the verdant left thinks getting Democrats elected is more important than the environment.That is a pity.(The Economist)
10. They also argue that, as the 2013 review must be held anyway, the net effect of Mr Obama's retreat is more ozone pollution. In this section A choice of medicines Prime-time Perry Off-track in Middletown In the pea soup Excellence for fewer Pungent pests That sinking feeling ReprintsPolluters are cock-a-hoop and so are the Republicock-a-hoop and becock-a-hoop and verdant sonce the recession begare.(The Economist)
11. Those drivers will pay about half the fees, suburban commuters and commercial vehicles the rest. Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's verdant governor, and Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, both sent messages of support to the mayor.(The Economist)
12. The first five months of this year was the driest such period in the valley in its 118 years of record-keeping, the authority said. Even normally verdant Florida, regularly battered by hurricanes and tropical storms that can dump up to 50 inches (1.3 metres) of rain annually, is feeling the pinch.(The Economist)
13. The oddest couple of all Jerry Taylor of the libertarian Cato Institute and Dan Becker of the deeply verdant Sierra Club have just issued a joint call for a radically different energy policy: a market-based, "zero subsidy" energy bill.(The Economist)
14. THE Uganda Cancer Institute is on a hilltop with a fine view of the verdant capital, Kampala.(The Economist)
词汇搭配
verdant hill, island, lawn, place
词汇来源
1580s, "green in color; green with vegetation," from French virdeant "becoming green," present participle of Old French verdeiier "become green," from Vulgar Latin *viridiare "grow green, make green," from Latin viridis "green" (see verdure). Related: Verdantly; verdancy.
近义词
green, grown, leafy, lush, luxuriant, overgrown
反义词
barren, leafless
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