graft

noun

/ɡrɑːft/

/ɡræft/

[countable] a piece cut from a living plant and fixed in a cut made in another plant, so that it grows there; the process or result of doing this接穗；嫁接
- A healthy shoot should form a strong graft.健康的嫩枝可作强壮的接穗。
Topics Plants and treesc2
[countable] a piece of skin, bone, etc. removed from a living body and placed in another part of the body that has been damaged; the process or result of doing this移植物，移植片（皮肤或骨骼等）；移植
- Linda had to undergo four skin grafts.琳达必须接受 4 次植皮手术。
- If the skin graft takes, surgeons will do another operation a few weeks later.如果皮肤移植成功，几周后外科医生就会施行另一项手术。
Wordfinder
- amputate
- anaesthetic
- graft
- operation
- procedure
- scalpel
- scrubs
- stitch
- surgery
- transplant
Topics Medicinec2
Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- bone
- skin
verb + graft
- do
- undergo
graft + verb
- take
[uncountable] (British English, informal) hard work艰苦的工作
- Their success was the result of years of hard graft.他们的成功是多年艰苦奋斗的结果。
- Most of the graft was done for them by their assistants.大部份艰苦的工作都是由他们的助手做的。
- Starting a new business involves a lot of hard graft.新开办一家公司需要付出大量艰辛的努力。
Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- hard
verb + graft
- do
[uncountable] (especially North American English) the use of illegal or unfair methods, especially bribery, to gain advantage in business, politics, etc.; money obtained in this way行贿；贿赂；受贿；赃款
- He promised an end to graft and corruption in public life.他承诺结束公共事务中的贿赂和腐败行为。
Topics Crime and punishmentc2

词源noun senses 1 to 2 late Middle English graff, from Old French grafe, via Latin from Greek graphion ‘stylus, writing implement’ (with reference to the tapered tip of the scion), from graphein ‘write’. The final -t is typical of phonetic confusion between -f and -ft at the end of words; compare with tuft. noun sense 3 mid 19th cent.: perhaps related to the phrase spade's graft ‘the amount of earth that one stroke of a spade will move’, based on Old Norse grǫftr ‘digging’. noun sense 4 mid 19th cent.: of unknown origin.

graft

verb

/ɡrɑːft/

/ɡræft/

动词形式

present simple I / you / we / they graft	/ɡrɑːft/ /ɡræft/
he / she / it grafts	/ɡrɑːfts/ /ɡræfts/
past simple grafted	/ˈɡrɑːftɪd/ /ˈɡræftɪd/
past participle grafted	/ˈɡrɑːftɪd/ /ˈɡræftɪd/
-ing form grafting	/ˈɡrɑːftɪŋ/ /ˈɡræftɪŋ/

[transitive] graft something (onto/to/into something) | graft something (on) (from something) to take a piece of skin, bone, etc. from a living body and attach it to a damaged part移植（皮肤、骨骼等）
- newly grafted tissue新移植的组织
- New skin had to be grafted on from his back.需从他的背部移植新皮肤。
Topics Medicinec2
[transitive] graft something (onto something) to cut a piece from a living plant and attach it to another plant嫁接
[transitive] graft something (onto something) to make one idea, system, etc. become part of another one使（思想、制度等）成为（…的一部分）；植根
- Old values are being grafted onto a new social class.旧的价值观念正植根于新的社会阶层。
[intransitive] (British English, informal) to work hard卖力地工作
- She’s been grafting all day.她整天都在努力工作。

词源verb senses 1 to 3 late Middle English graff, from Old French grafe, via Latin from Greek graphion ‘stylus, writing implement’ (with reference to the tapered tip of the scion), from graphein ‘write’. The final -t is typical of phonetic confusion between -f and -ft at the end of words; compare with tuft. verb sense 4 mid 19th cent.: perhaps related to the phrase spade's graft ‘the amount of earth that one stroke of a spade will move’, based on Old Norse grǫftr ‘digging’.