go to seed
基本解釋
- 退化;花謝結(jié)子;變得不修邊幅
英漢例句
- He's seventy now, and is beginning to go to seed.
他現(xiàn)在七十歲了,開始衰老了… - Six miles outside the town of Decorah, Iowa, an 890-acre stretch of rolling fields and woods called Heritage Farm is letting its crops go to seed.
艾奧瓦州迪科拉城外六英里處,有一片占地890英畝、延綿起伏的田地與林地,喚作遺產(chǎn)農(nóng)場(Heritage Farm),這兒的作物正任其結(jié)籽。 - What a pity you let all those cabbages go to seed. They're no use now.
真可惜,你讓那些卷心菜都結(jié)籽了,全都沒用了。 - General Motors let Buick go to seed because it could.
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