Flourish

(noun.) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; 'he entered to a flourish of trumpets'; 'her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare'.

(noun.) the act of waving.

(noun.) a display of ornamental speech or language.

(noun.) a showy gesture; 'she entered with a great flourish'.

(noun.) an ornamental embellishment in writing.

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• The business may still flourish with good management, and the master become as rich as any of the company. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• What will flourish on Rushedge? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• To which he added, in a small complicated hand, ending with a long lean flourish, not unlike a lasso thrown at all the rest of the names: Blandois. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The plan will flourish in spite of them, and then they'll be glad to come in. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I have seen generations born, flourish, and expire! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Her happiness is no object to me, sir,' said Benjamin Allen, with a flourish of the hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• But he'll flourish here, and everywhere,' said Rigaud, with an exulting look and snap of his fingers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He was undeniably a prosperous man, bore his drinking better than others bore their moderation, and, on the whole, flourished like the green bay-tree. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He flourished back and got his cup and set it down triumphantly, and said: Just try that mixture once, Captain Duncan. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Those fisheries, upon this account, have had all the encouragement which freedom can give them, and they have flourished accordingly. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Imported horses were introduced at Buenos Ayres in 1537, and so flourished in the wild state that in 1580 they were found as far south as the Strai t of Magellan. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• She told me that these people had presumably flourished over a hundred thousand years before. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• There flourished the first temples and the first priest-rulers that we know of among mankind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• For some time Buddhism flourished in India. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The opposition has gradually ceased, and the Franklinian system is now universally adopted where science flourishes. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• There were no flourishes, but the individual letters would not bear close inspection. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But upon my soul I can't make flourishes, and I would rather be disappointed than try. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I found that the vertical style, with each letter separate and without any flourishes, was the most rapid, and that the smaller the letter the greater the rapidity. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It is the soil in which invention flourishes and the organized knowledge of science attains its greatest reality. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• And with that he made his heavy halberd to play around his head as a shepherd boy flourishes his light crook. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It is in communities like this that Jesuit humbuggery flourishes. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• His loss is deeply felt in the flourishing colony. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• As it was, you would have fancied he was a flourishing, large parson of the Church of England. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• One of his most intimate friends was a merchant, who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The ribbon, flourishing in puffs and bows about the head, was of the sort called love-ribbon. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Feudalism in its most flourishing age was anything but systematic. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Such people there are living and flourishing in the world--Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and main. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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