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green thumb

绿拇指,绿色的拇指,绿色拇指,绿色大拇指

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.

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Examples

  • We’ve got painters, builders, rock climbers, musicians, board-game aficionados, green thumbs.

  • My dad has always had a green thumb, but it definitely skipped a generation.

  • It could be building raised garden beds outside if you have a green thumb and enjoy watching things grow.

  • Whether you’re in an office or a porch, keeping a plant alive doesn’t always come down to your green thumb.

  • I really wanted Trenchmouth to succeed and at the time wished we were as big as Green Day.

  • It’s cool because Trenchmouth opened for Green Day in the early ‘90s in Wisconsin.

  • I just did one [Geezer] with Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day.

  • It took me 1,015 strokes to see this shade of green in a world of orange, and my jaw nearly dropped.

  • At the highest navigable point of the Congo River, thick jungle creates an impenetrable wall of green around a large island.

  • With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.

  • The plant as a whole remains green until late in the autumn.

  • A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.

  • I could see only the stretch of green before me, and I felt as if I must walk on forever, without coming to the end of it.

  • It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.