Dormant的意思|Dormant的解释-里氏词典

dormant ['dɒ:mәnt]

a. 睡眠状态的, 静止的

[医] 休眠的, 不活动的, 休止的

A protective case, covering, or structure, such as a plant bud, in which an organism remains dormant for the winter.
离体条芽一种保护性的外壳、表皮或结构，例如植物的芽，在其内部一个有机体处于冬眠状态
He would try to awake their dormant and sluggish faculties.
这位教授应该试图唤醒他们沉睡和懒散的天赋。
Many dormant branches of our organization are now springing to active life.
我们组织中有许多沉寂的部门现在突然活跃起来。

dormant

[ adj ]

(of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct

<adj.all>

a dormant volcano

in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation

<adj.all>

dormant buds

a hibernating bear

torpid frogs

lying with head on paws as if sleeping

<adj.all>

inactive but capable of becoming active

<adj.all>

her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened

Dormant \Dor"mant\, n. [See {Dormant}, a.] (Arch.)
A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of
the other timbers rest or `` sleep.'' --Arch. Pub. Soc. --
Called also {dormant tree}, {dorman tree}, {dormond}, and
{dormer}. --Halliwell.

All 11 members of the Eelavur Democratic Front resigned from Parliament today. "We do not want to be dormant spectators who witness the tormentation of our people," they said in a statement.
Though the subject lies dormant now, there are more than 200 communities with some form of residential rent controls, most adopted during periods of rapid general inflation in the 1970s, and most in the Northeast and California.
Though the total Camel franchise has been dormant, its share of filter cigarette sales grew to 3.1% last year from 2.6% in 1987.
Scientists are trying to understand just what triggers a latent virus to start reproducing itself, in hopes of finding ways to keep it dormant.
Nearly 130 miles to the north, the line traced by a wandering pencil on a seismograph at the University of Washington was first interpreted as evidence of a tremor 75 miles southeast of the dormant volcano.
About 60 reporters were handed hardhats, goggles and tiny radiation monitors as Philadelphia Electric Co., operator of the dormant plant on the Susquehanna River, conducted its first media tour of the facility.
The figurative skill and knowledge are there, and the discipline too, though dormant.
The issue, dormant for decades, was resurrected in the 1970s when Armenian extremists began more than a decade of attacks against Turkish diplomats abroad, saying they were avenging the massacre of their ancestors.
I am the sole director and majority shareholder of United Chemicals Ltd, which is now dormant.
"There could come a day in the far distant future, or not too distant future, when Old Faithful will become less faithful and may become a dormant geyser," agreed Yellowstone spokeswoman Joan Anzelmo.
The head of the federal agency that regulates stocks, bonds and other securities said Thursday he'll travel to Europe later this month to sign an international cooperation agreement in Luxembourg and help reopen the long dormant Budapest Stock Exchange.
The rally in wheat prices was moderated by weekend rains in relatively dry sections of the Southern Plains, where the hard red winter wheat variety is in its dormant stage.
One panel is charged with a 'comprehensive programme of disarmament', but that committee is dormant. In Vienna, consultative groups work on implementation of the CFE and Open Skies accords.
The bulls believe inflation will lie dormant for the next one or two years as the economy remains weaker than normal. Longer-term trends are also moving in the bond market's favour, says Ms Pinto.
The Reagan administration will allow U.S. farmers to bring millions of dormant acres back into production next year to rebuild the nation's drought-depleted stockpiles of corn and other feed grains.
However, there have been and there are governments that release the economic energy dormant in talented and diligent people.
Sen. Paul Simon finally jumped on the Michael Dukakis bandwagon Wednesday, formally ending his own dormant quest for the Democratic presidential nomination and nudging his remaining delegates toward the certain nominee.
The concert, which has been dormant for the last two years, was organized by Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young.
Libel suits frequently are filed but become dormant because of the high cost of litigation.
April 1990 _ Sony Corp. announces it will reopen the dormant plant to produce large-screen television tubes.
The Lebanese Forces had vowed to block his return to power, saying he would certainly seek to rekindle the dormant civil war.
Until recently, traditional conflicts among ethnic groups with different languages and cultures lay mostly dormant under slogans trumpeting the international solidarity of socialism.
It might have been a surge of bioenergy that some mystics believe lies dormant in us all.
Lonquimay, a peak in the Andes foothills about 400 miles south of Santiago, had been dormant for a century when it erupted on Christmas Day.
"For the last several years agricultural markets were dormant.
Three years ago, a new management team led by Cooper began reshuffling TCF's loan portfolio and closing unprofitable branches. TCF revived its nearly dormant mortgage lending operation and found a comfortable niche in consumer finance.
In late 1989, the government gave a green light to resurrect dormant stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen, a special economic zone adjacent to Hong Kong.
Winter wheat is planted in the fall and normally is dormant during midwinter cold before starting to grow again when warmer weather returns.
The government has urged the ANC to formally suspend its largely dormant armed struggle.
Pre-tax profitability in financial services has risen steadily from 16 per cent in 1988/89 to 27.2 per cent in 1991/92. Out of 2.4m cardholder accounts, M&S estimates that 10 per cent are dormant, with no activity for the last six months.

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