graft

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graft1 /ɡrɑːft $ ɡræft/ noun

1 [countableC]MH a piece of healthy skin or bone taken from someone’s body and put in or on another part of their body that has been damaged 移植的皮肤；移植的骨骼

Martha had to have several skin grafts.

玛莎不得不进行了多处皮肤移植。

2. [countableC]DLGTA a piece cut from one plant and tied to or put inside a cut in another, so that it grows there 〔嫁接用的〕接穗

3 [uncountableU] especially British EnglishBrE informalWORK HARD hard work 艰苦的工作

Our success has been due to sheer hard graft.

我们的成功全凭努力得来。

4 [uncountableU] especially American EnglishAmEDISHONEST the practice of obtaining money or advantage by the dishonest use of influence or power 贪污，受贿；以权谋私

He promised to end graft in public life.

他承诺要清除公务生活中的腐败行为。

Examples from the Corpus

graft• About 40 percent of her diseased liver was removed and replaced with a graft from a healthy liver.• In Springfield you could tell real fast which men were there for girls, games, and graft.• People once accepted government greed and graft with a shrug of resignation.• Murders, theft, rape, calumnies, graft - our daily bread.• Stevens was in court yesterday facing charges of graft and tax evasion.• A major investigation is underway to root out graft there, he said.• A major investigation is under way to root out graft there, they said.• I've got gravel wounds in my back and my leg hurts where they took a skin graft.• About 30 % of such grafts fail in two to five years and 50 % within 10 years.

skin grafts• Jay Burns has undergone 18 skin grafts since the horrible accident three years ago, an accident that nearly destroyed his life.

hard graft• Horses are not stupid and will soon grasp how to avoid hard graft!• All you need is £8,000 and about two months hard graft, as one Clwyd farmer found out.• A mere £8,000, plus two months of hard graft.• It's hard graft getting it out of her.• The bomb and the bullet of course provide more dramatic reportage than hard graft, the golf club and fishing rod.• You're standing hunched up with the dull awareness of the hard graft.• The hard graft may be persuading him or her to do the job.

Related topics: Hospital, Gardening, Agriculture

graft2 verb

1 [transitiveT]MH to remove a piece of skin, bone etc from part of someone’s body and put it onto or into a part of their body that has been damaged 移植〔皮肤、骨骼等〕

graft something onto/to something

The technique involves grafting a very thin slice of bone onto the damaged knee.

这种技术是把非常薄的骨片移植到受伤的膝盖上去。

2. [transitiveT + on/onto]DLGTA to join a part of a plant or tree onto another plant or tree 嫁接

3 MIX[transitiveT] to add something very different to something, so that it becomes part of it 引入，加入

graft something onto something

New elements are being grafted onto our traditional form of government.

我们传统的政府模式正被注入新的元素。

graft something on

It is a 17th-century farmhouse with some Victorian additions grafted on.

这是一座17世纪的农舍，后来又加盖了一些维多利亚时代风格的房子。

4. [intransitiveI] especially British EnglishBrE informalWORK HARD to work hard 努力地工作

5.graft off somebody phrasal verbphr v American EnglishAmE DISHONESTto get money or advantages from someone by the dishonest use of influence, especially political influence 〔尤指利用权势以不正当手段〕向〔某人〕索贿，牟取私利

Examples from the Corpus

graft• I made a note to myself to come back in early spring to get scions for grafting.• Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34, while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end.• By grafting in another eyecup another lens can be induced to form from the overlying layer.• If they are grafted on to existing vocational education-representing a change in name only-we will be worse off than when we started.• The political parade was grafted onto the Frontier Days celebration.• If one could only graft the best aspects of Scimone and Devos on to one another, the roof would really lift off!• After being grafted, the joints are dipped into paraffin wax for protection.• They grafted themselves, in fact, on to a much older, more primitive and powerful religious life.• Husbands and wives were bound by deep ties-like two branches grafted together.

graft something onto something• Clippings from the tree are being grafted onto existing seedlings.• Doctors grafted skin from Mike's arm onto his face where it was burned.

From Longman Business Dictionary

graftgraft1 /grɑːftgræft/ noun [uncountableU]

1British EnglishBrE informal hard work

He put his success down to stamina, resilience, and sheer hard graft.

2especially American EnglishAmE when money or advantage is obtained by using power or influence in a dishonest way

The whole system is full of corruption and graft.

graftgraft2 verb

British EnglishBrE informal to work hard

→ graft something onto something

Origin graft1

(1400-1500) graff “graft” ((14-19 centuries)), from Old French grafe “pencil, graft”, from Greek graphein “to write”; because a plant graft looks like a pencil

graft1 noungraft2 verb

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