go to seed

基本解释

• 退化；花谢结子；变得不修边幅

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• He's seventy now, and is beginning to go to seed.
  他现在七十岁了，开始衰老了…
• Six miles outside the town of Decorah, Iowa, an 890-acre stretch of rolling fields and woods called Heritage Farm is letting its crops go to seed.
  艾奥瓦州迪科拉城外六英里处，有一片占地890英亩、延绵起伏的田地与林地，唤作遗产农场（Heritage Farm），这儿的作物正任其结籽。
• What a pity you let all those cabbages go to seed. They're no use now.
  真可惜，你让那些卷心菜都结籽了，全都没用了。

权威例句

• General Motors let Buick go to seed because it could.
  FORBES: Can This Brand Be Saved?