词汇 | bear fruit |
释义 | Idiom bear fruit Theme: RESULTS to yield results; to give (literal or figurative) fruit.Our apple tree didn't bear fruit this year.I hope your new plan bears fruit.We've had many good ideas, but none of them has borne fruit. Idiom bear fruit 1. to produce a result that is wanted or desired. Some of the changes in the election laws are already bearing fruit. 2. to produce successful results. Opening a new store in San Francisco has already borne fruit for the company. Etymology: based on the idea that getting results is like getting fruit from a plant bear fruit1. Literally, to produce fruit, as of certain trees and plants. Now that the tree in our back yard is bearing fruit, the kids love picking apples from it. 2. By extension, to yield desired results. Donna is convinced that this plan will bear fruit if we just keep working on it, but it's been a year—the rest of us are officially skeptical. bear fruit1. Lit. [for a plant or tree] to yield fruit. Our apple tree didn't bear fruit this year. 2. Fig. to yield results. I hope your new plan bears fruit. We've had many good ideas, but none of them has borne fruit. bear fruitYield results, have a favorable outcome, as in This new idea of his is bound to bear fruit. This metaphoric term, first recorded in 1879, transfers the production of fruit by a tree or plant to other kinds of useful yield. bear fruitFORMALCOMMON If an action bears fruit, it produces good results. The strategy of concentrating the company's efforts on a smaller range of businesses is now beginning to bear fruit. It remains to be seen whether the economic reforms will bear fruit. bear fruithave good results.This expression is a biblical metaphor, found, for example, in Matthew 13:23: ‘But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty’. bear ˈfruithave the desired result; be successful: The tireless efforts of campaigners have finally borne fruit and the prisoners are due to be released tomorrow. |
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