Graft

(noun.) the act of grafting something onto something else.

(noun.) (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient.

(verb.) cause to grow together parts from different plants; 'graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree'.

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• If he could but graft the girl on to some tree of utterance before he died, he would have fulfilled his responsibility. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They excelled in horticulture, knowing how to graft and how to produce new varieties of fruit and flowers. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It is an accretion of power around a center of influence, cemented by patronage, graft, favors, friendship, loyalties, habits,--a human grouping, a natural pyramid. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Is it not possible that graft is the cracking and bursting of the receptacles in which we have tried to constrain the business of this country? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• This body has three heads; one in the middle and two others grafted at the base of the neck of the first. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• No explanation can be given of these facts, any more than why certain trees cannot be grafted on others. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• On the other hand, certain species of Sorbus, when grafted on other species, yielded twice as much fruit as when on their own roots. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Although many distinct genera within the same family have been grafted together, in other cases species of the same genus will not take on each other. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The pear can be grafted far more readily on the quince, which is ranked as a distinct genus, than on the apple, which is a member of the same genus. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn stops for an instant and repeats with some little emphasis grafted upon his usual monotony, Real flesh and blood, Miss Dedlock. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The common gooseberry, for instance, cannot be grafted on the currant, whereas the currant will take, though with difficulty, on the gooseberry. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• These bud variations, as they may be named, can be propagated by grafts, offsets, etc. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I am aware of the contract-grafts, the franchise-steals, the dirty streets, the bribing and the blackmail, the vice-and-crime partnerships, the Big Business alliances of Tammany Hall. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The method most commonly practiced in working with apple trees is called bud-grafting, and consists of transferring a plate of bark, with one or more buds attached, from one tree to another. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The amazingly large number of different varieties which we have today have all been brought into existence through the discovery of the process of grafting. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• There are a half a dozen or more different methods of grafting. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• As in reciprocal crosses, the facility of effecting an union is often very far from equal, so it sometimes is in grafting. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Noble, for instance, informs me that he raises stocks for grafting from a hybrid between Rhod. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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