propagate
英 [ˈprɒp.ə.ɡeɪt]
美 [ˈprɑː.pə.ɡeɪt]
- vt. 传播;传送;繁殖;宣传
- vi. 繁殖;增殖
1、pro- "forth" + pag- + -ate.
2、步步为营、稳扎稳打、环环相扣地向前,使其生生不息、香火不灭、永保不虞、连续不断。
3、该词的原始含义是用压条法生根繁殖植物,后来,含义在此基础上进行了引申扩展。
4、压条法就是将植物的枝条向前逐节地压入土中,以繁殖更多的植物。
propagate 宣传,传播,繁殖,增殖来自拉丁语propagare,延伸,扩展,繁殖,来自pro-,向前,-pag,固定,词源同page,compact.比喻用法,原指使植物新芽繁殖,扩大种植,引申词义宣传,传播。
- propagate (v.)
- 1560s, "to cause to multiply," from Latin propagatus, past participle of propagare "to set forward, extend, procreate" (see propagation). Intransitive sense "reproduce one's kind" is from c. 1600. Related: Propagated; propagating.
- 1. The political party started the newspaper to propagate its ideas.
- 那个政党创办一份报纸来宣传该党的观点.
- 2. Most plants propagate by seeds.
- 大多数植物都是通过种子繁殖的.
- 3. Insects propagate themselves by means of eggs.
- 昆虫以产卵繁殖后代.
- 4. Rabbits propagate [ breed ] rapidly.
- 兔子 繁殖 迅速.
- 5. Chinese citizens enjoy the freedom to believe in religion and the freedom not to believe in it and to propagate atheism.
- 中国公民有信仰宗教的自由和不信仰宗教、宣传无神论的自由.