flourish/boom/prosper/thrive.导航词义：繁荣

1. flourish:v. 繁荣，兴旺.指经济、事业等发展迅速或取得巨大成功，也指植物茁壮成长。

His business seemed to be flourishing.

他的生意似乎很兴旺。

Township enterprises have flourished over the past 10 years.

在过去的10年里，乡镇企业蓬勃发展。

The service industry is flourishing day by day.

服务行业蒸蒸日上。

The plants are flourishing and the flowers are blooming.

植物繁茂，鲜花怒放。

2. boom:v. 迅速发展，繁荣.指商业、贸易等进入快速发展时期，规模更大、更成功。

The digital publishing industry is booming nowadays.

如今数字出版业迅猛发展。

The fishing industry of that country was booming in the 1890s.

那个国家的捕鱼业在19世纪90年代繁荣一时。

3. prosper:v. 兴旺，发达.指人、企业等经营有方，经济上获利颇丰。

With great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered.

他靠着坚毅顽强和勤劳不懈发达起来了。

The business prospered under the leadership of the new president.

在新任总裁的领导下公司生意兴隆。

His business prospered after introducing a new management system.

引进新的管理系统后，他的公司业务兴旺起来。

4. thrive:v. 兴旺，欣欣向荣.指人、动植物健康茁壮成长；也指经济繁荣发展，作此义解时常可与 flourish 或 prosper 换用。

Children thrive in the country air.

乡村的空气使孩子们茁壮成长。

The plants throve after the rain.

下过雨后这些植物长势喜人。

Now that the highway is finished, the shopping centre should thrive/flourish/prosper.

既然这条公路已经竣工，那个商业中心一定会兴隆起来。

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1·New businesses thrive in this area.

新商家在这一地区蓬勃兴起。《牛津词典》

2·Today her company continues to thrive.

如今，她的公司继续蓬勃发展。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·However, some birds thrive in noisy environments.

然而，有些鸟会在嘈杂的环境中茁壮成长。

4·I admire their thirst for knowledge and they seem to thrive on challenges.

我钦佩他们对知识的渴望，他们似乎在挑战之中成长。

5·They can thrive in soil with high concentrations of metals that are toxic to most other plants.

它们能在含有对大多数其他植物有毒的高浓度金属的土壤中茁壮成长。

6·Our society needs the full participation of its younger citizens if it is to continue to thrive.

我们的社会如果要继续繁荣下去，就需要年轻公民的充分参与。

7·Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive.

政府必须确保其主要城市获得繁荣发展所需的财政支持。

8·Instead of wordy, worthy strategies, future governments need to do more to provide the conditions for sport to thrive.

未来的政府需要做更多工作，为体育的繁荣提供条件，而不是提供有价值但冗长的战略。

9·A third group are known as crepuscular: they thrive in the low light of dawn and dusk and remain inactive at other hours.

第三组被称为黄昏组：他们在黎明和黄昏的微光中茁壮成长，而在其他时间则不活跃。

10·Meteorite impacts can be advantageous for some species, which thrive, and disastrous for other species, which become extinct.

陨石的撞击对某些物种是有利的，它们会茁壮成长；而对其他物种则是灾难性的，它们会灭绝。

繁荣

1·Our society needs the full participation of its younger citizens if it is to continue to thrive.

我们的社会如果要继续繁荣下去，就需要年轻公民的充分参与。

2·Instead of wordy, worthy strategies, future governments need to do more to provide the conditions for sport to thrive.

未来的政府需要做更多工作，为体育的繁荣提供条件，而不是提供有价值但冗长的战略。

3·The purpose is to help enough people wake up and live more consciously, so that humanity itself may continue to survive and thrive.

目的是为了帮助更多的人觉醒和更自觉而有意识地活着，因此人类本身能继续存活和繁荣。

4·If TV can combine scale with specificity, become more responsive to its audience and learn to aim adverts more recisely, it will continue to thrive.

如果电视能把规模和特性结合起来，更能和观众互动起来并且学着更精确地瞄准广告，它会继续繁荣。

5·Thanks to international campaigns against money laundering and illegal tax evasion, today's successful tax havens thrive not because of crookery, but because they are well run and well regulated.

多亏反对洗钱和非法逃税的国际行动，今天成功的避税港的繁荣，不是因为欺诈，而是因为他们进行良好的经营以及监管。

茁壮成长

1·They can thrive in soil with high concentrations of metals that are toxic to most other plants.

它们能在含有对大多数其他植物有毒的高浓度金属的土壤中茁壮成长。

2·Unfortunately, the adaptations that enable carnivorous plants to thrive in marginal habitats also make them exquisitely sensitive.

不幸的是，使食肉植物在边缘栖息地茁壮成长的适应性也使它们变得异常敏感。

3·Working-class parents, meanwhile, believe their children will naturally thrive, and give them far greater independence and time for free play.

与此同时，工薪阶层的父母相信他们的孩子会自然而然地茁壮成长，给予他们更多的独立性和自由玩耍的时间。

4·The remaining trees draw a greater share of the available moisture, so they grow and thrive, restoring the forest's capacity to pull carbon from the air.

剩下的树木吸收了更多的可用水分，因此它们茁壮成长，恢复了森林从空气中吸收碳的能力。

5·This was an important innovation, because the camel's abilities to thrive in harsh desert conditions and to carry large loads cheaply made it an effective and efficient means of transportation.

这是一项重要的创新，因为骆驼能够在恶劣的沙漠条件下茁壮成长，并以低廉成本搬运大量货物，这使它成为一种有效且高效的运输工具。

兴旺

1·The places that thrive today are those with the highest velocity of ideas, the highest density of talented and creative people, the highest rate of metabolism,” which are found in cities.

今天兴旺的地方是那些思想有着最高速率，人们有着最丰富的才能和创造力，新陈代谢有着最高速率的地方。’ 而所有这些都能在城市中发现的。

2·The places that thrive today are those with the highest velocity of ideas, the highest density of talented and creative people, the highest rate of metabolism, which are found in cities.

今天兴旺的地方是那些思想有着最高速率，人们有着最丰富的才能和创造力，新陈代谢有着最高速率的地方。而所有这些都能在城市中发现的。

3·If the sociological aspects of building a community are limited by a too-restrictive governance process, then the community will not thrive.

如果构建一个社区的社会性方面受限于一个太过于限制的治理流程，那这一社区将不会兴旺。

4·Information about shipbuilding in the Yangzi Dalta (including Shanghai), however, shows that the industry continued to thrive despite unrestricted competition from new carriers.

然而长江三角洲(包括上海)的造船信息表明，尽管其与新的运输工具进行竞争，但该行业仍继续兴旺。

5·India's firms mostly thrive in spite of the weak state; they need to make sure they do not thrive because of it.

大多数印度企业面临衰弱的国情依然兴旺发达，需要确认的是，后者不能成为前者的缘由。

兴盛

1·If these enterprises are to thrive, they need to demonstrate their success, both financially and in terms of social change.

如果这些企业要兴盛，它们需要证明它们在财务和社会变化方面的成功。

2·Largely because of the legal grey zone in which they thrive, pachinko parlour operators are not listed on the stock exchange. The producers of the machines, however, are tipped to perform strongly.

博彩业的兴盛主要是因为他们处于法律灰色地带，弹球游戏的经营者尚未上市，然而，这个游戏机器的制造商却表现势头强劲。

3·Like other large carnivores, tigers need ample space and prey to thrive: Each animal might eat 50 deer a year.

类似于其他大型食肉动物，老虎的兴盛需要足够的空间和食物：每只老虎一年可能要吃50只鹿。

4·When OS X rolled around, Apple seemed to have realized that in order for its future platform to thrive, it couldn't afford to have the means for creating great software controlled by someone else.

当OS X日益兴起，苹果公司似乎意识到，为了未来操作平台的兴盛，它负担不起发开软件主动权被他人控制的代价。

5·Industries thrive where coal abounds; thus you will find coal mines and many factories side by side.

多煤的地方工业兴盛，因此你可以见到煤矿和许多工厂并立着。

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