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thriving 音標拼音: [θr'ɑɪvɪŋ] n. 欣欣向榮 欣欣向榮 thriving adj 1: very lively and profitable; " flourishing businesses"; " a palmy time for stockbrokers"; " a prosperous new business"; " doing a roaring trade"; " a thriving tourist center"; " did a thriving business in orchids" [ synonym: { booming}, { flourishing}, { palmy}, { prospering}, { prosperous}, { roaring}, { thriving}] Thrive \ Thrive\ ( thr[ imac] v), v. i. [ imp. { Throve} ( thr[= o] v) or { Thrived} ( thr[ imac] vd); p. p. { Thrived} or { Thriven} ( thr[ i^] v"' n); p. pr. & vb. n. { Thriving}.] [ OE. [ thorn] riven, Icel. [ thorn] r[ imac] fask; probably originally, to grasp for one' s self, from [ thorn] r[ imac] fa to grasp; akin to Dan. trives to thrive, Sw. trifvas. Cf. { Thrift}.] 1. To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry. [ 1913 Webster] Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold. -- I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To prosper in any business; to have increase or success. " They by vices thrive." -- Sandys. [ 1913 Webster] O son, why sit we here, each other viewing Idly, while Satan, our great author, thrives? -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] And so she throve and prospered. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil. [ 1913 Webster] 72 Moby Thesaurus words for " thriving": abundance, abundant, advancing, balmy, blooming, blossoming, booming, bountiful, budding, burgeoning, bursting, bursting out, clear, copious, creative, crescent, developed, ease, easy, exuberant, fair, fat, fecund, fertile, florescent, flourishing, flowering, fructiferous, fruitful, fruiting, full- fledged, full- grown, fully developed, generous, going strong, growing, grown, grown- up, halcyon, hypertrophied, in full swing, in good case, lush, luxuriant, mature, overdeveloped, overgrown, palmy, piping, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, productive, progressing, proliferous, prolific, prospering, prosperous, rich, roaring, robust, rosy, seminal, sleek, sprouting, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thrifty, uberous, vigorous, well- being
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