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🇺🇸 /dɪvˈɛlʌp/ 🇬🇧 /dɪˈvɛl.əp/

verb 编号: D01073 牛津3000 BNC #400 COCA #484

表示事物逐步展开、成长或形成，也可表示主动促进发展、制定计划，以及在特定领域中使某物显现或展开。

💡 记忆钩子

可以把它想成“把包住的东西一层层展开”：事情自己展开，就是逐渐发展、变成另一种状态；人主动把它展开，就是培育资源、制定计划或培养能力；隐藏在胶片里的影像被显现出来，也用这个词。其他专业义项只是把“展开、摆开”的画面用在棋类、台球和数学上。

📝 学习建议

先掌握“事物逐渐发展”和“发展、培养某物”这两条主线，再记“制定计划”“冲洗胶片”等固定用法。
不要把 develop 一律译成“发展”：develop a plan 通常是“制定计划”，develop an accent 通常是“逐渐形成口音”。

📖 中文释义

verb

rare 揭开；查明

📖 表示把原本隐藏的事实揭开、查明，属于古旧用法，现代英语中通常不用它表达这个意思。

archaic impersonal transitive
core 逐渐发展；演变

📖 表示事情或局势沿着某种方向逐渐变化，重点是过程自然展开，而不是某个人直接制造结果。

💡 常用“事情、局势、情况 + develop”或“看看事情如何发展”的结构。它通常是不及物用法，不能在这里直接接宾语；语气中性，适合日常对话和正式写作。不要只把它理解成“变好”，它也可以表示向任何明确方向变化。

intransitive

Let's see how things develop before we make a decision.

我们先看看事情如何发展，再作决定。

The situation developed differently from what we expected.

事态的发展和我们预想的不一样。
core 逐阶段发展成

📖 表示人、动物、事物经过一连串阶段逐步成长或转变，常强调从一种状态进入下一种状态。

💡 常用“develop into + 名词”表示“发展成……”，也可用“from A to B”说明阶段变化。这个用法可作不及物或及物，接宾语时通常说明某物经历了怎样的成长过程。不要把它误解为一次性的突然变成。

ambitransitive

The small idea developed into a successful business.

这个小想法逐渐发展成了一项成功的业务。

The young plant developed several strong branches.

这株幼苗逐渐长出了几根粗壮的枝条。
core 促进发展；培育

📖 表示主动投入时间、资源或努力，使某种能力、资源、业务等得到成长和充分利用。

💡 常用“develop + 资源、能力、业务、人才”等名词，表示有计划地培育或推进。这个及物用法比单纯的“使用”更强调让对象变得更成熟、更有潜力，正式和日常语境都能用。说人的能力时，不能只译成“发现”，而要理解为持续培养。

transitive

The company is developing new skills among its staff.

这家公司正在培养员工的新技能。

We need to develop local resources more carefully.

我们需要更合理地开发当地资源。
common 制定；创立

📖 表示经过思考和组织，把一个想法变成具体的计划、方法、系统或产品；这里的重点是形成并完善成果。

💡 常用“develop + plan、strategy、system、product”等结构。它比单纯的“写出”更强调构思、组织和逐步完善，适合工作、学习和项目语境。中文里的“发展计划”不一定对应这个意思，表示制定计划时应直接说 develop a plan。

transitive

We are developing a plan to reduce energy use.

我们正在制定一项减少能源使用的计划。
common 冲洗胶片

📖 表示通过化学处理使胶片上原本潜藏的影像显现出来，是“展开、显现”这一核心画面的摄影用法。

💡 常用“develop + 胶卷或胶片”以及“develop a roll of film”的结构。这个义项主要用于传统摄影；现代数码照片通常不这样说。不要把它理解成“拍摄”或“打印”，它指的是把胶片中的影像冲洗显现出来。

transitive

I found an old roll of film and had it developed.

我找到了一卷旧胶卷，便把它拿去冲洗了。
common 逐渐养成；获得

📖 表示某人在一段时间内逐渐形成某种习惯、口音、兴趣、问题或特征，而不是瞬间得到它。

💡 常用“develop + habit、interest、accent、problem”等名词，表示随着经历或时间逐步出现。它既可用于积极结果，也可用于疾病、问题等不利结果。若强调有意识地练习培养能力，可根据语境使用 develop；若只是偶然得到某物，则不宜机械套用这个词。

transitive

She developed a strong interest in local history.

她逐渐对当地历史产生了浓厚兴趣。
rare 展开棋子；出子

📖 在国际象棋中，指把棋子从起始位置积极布置到更有作用的位置，像把棋盘上的力量展开。

transitive
rare 打出更开放的球路

📖 在台球或斯诺克中，指通过移动球或打开球堆，让之后更容易击打，属于“把局面展开”的专门用法。
rare 展开数学式

📖 在数学中，指按规定运算把代数式改写成另一种形式，同时保持原来的值不变。

develops present,singular,third-person developing participle,present developed participle,past developed past developt archaic,participle,past,rare developt archaic,past,rare

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 21 组

come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); ; ;

同义词集: grow develop produce get acquire

He grew a beard

The patient developed abdominal pains

I got funny spots all over my body

Well-developed breasts

上位: change 下位: cut, feather, fledge, leaf, pod, spring, sprout, stock, stool, tiller

change the use of and make available or usable; ;

同义词集: build up develop

develop land

The country developed its natural resources

The remote areas of the country were gradually built up

上位: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate 下位: settle

expand in the form of a series

同义词集: develop

Develop the function in the following form

上位: expand

grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment; ; ;

同义词集: develop

A flower developed on the branch

The country developed into a mighty superpower

The embryo develops into a fetus

This situation has developed over a long time

上位: grow 下位: advance, age, bloom, blossom, blossom forth, blossom out, bud, build, build up, come along, come on, differentiate, evolve, flower, get along, get on, grow, maturate, mature, progress, senesce, shape up, spike, spike out, unfold, work up

cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development;

同义词集: develop make grow

The perfect climate here develops the grain

He developed a new kind of apple

上位: alter, change, modify 下位: check, condition, discipline, elaborate, grow, train, work out

happen;

同义词集: break recrudesce develop

Report the news as it develops

These political movements recrudesce from time to time

上位: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place 参见: break out, erupt

be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest

同义词集: develop

The plot developed slowly

上位: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place

elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme

同义词集: develop

develop the melody and change the key

上位: complicate, elaborate, rarify, refine

become technologically advanced;

同义词集: modernize modernise develop

Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace

Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly

上位: change

grow emotionally or mature;

同义词集: develop grow

The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten

When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior

上位: change 下位: make

gain through experience; ; ;

同义词集: develop acquire evolve

I acquired a strong aversion to television

Children must develop a sense of right and wrong

Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position

develop a passion for painting

上位: change

create by training and teaching;

同义词集: train develop prepare educate

The old master is training world-class violinists

we develop the leaders for the future

上位: instruct, learn, teach 下位: drill, toilet-train

elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses

同义词集: explicate formulate develop

Could you develop the ideas in your thesis

上位: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize 下位: mature

move into a strategically more advantageous position

同义词集: develop

develop the rook

上位: play

move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions

同义词集: develop

Spassky developed quickly

上位: play

superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry

同义词集: develop

generate gradually;

同义词集: develop

We must develop more potential customers

develop a market for the new mobile phone

上位: bring forth, generate 下位: make

work out

同义词集: evolve germinate develop

We have developed a new theory of evolution

make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation;

同义词集: develop

Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather

They developed a new technique

上位: create 下位: build

make visible by means of chemical solutions

同义词集: develop

Please develop this roll of film for me

上位: alter, change, modify

come into existence; take on form or shape; ; ;

同义词集: originate arise rise develop uprise spring up grow

A new religious movement originated in that country

a love that sprang up from friendship

the idea for the book grew out of a short story

An interesting phenomenon uprose

上位: become 下位: come, come forth, emerge, follow, head, swell, well up

🌳 词源

词源本义与“包裹、展开”有关，后来引申为事物展开并逐渐成长、显现。

Borrowed from French développer, from Middle French desveloper, from Old French desveloper, from des- + voloper, veloper, vloper (“to wrap, wrap up”) (compare Italian sviluppare, Old Italian alternative form goluppare (“to wrap”)) from Vulgar Latin *vloppō, *wloppō (“to wrap”) ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wrappaną, *wlappaną (“to wrap, roll up, turn, wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”) http://www.wordnik.com/words/envelop. Akin to Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, fold”) (Modern English lap (“to wrap, involve, fold”)), Middle English wrappen (“to wrap”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up, embrace”), dialectal Danish vravle (“to wind, twist”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, scrunch, distort”), Old English wearp (“warp”). The word acquired its modern meaning from the 17th-century belief that an egg contains the animal in miniature and matures by growing larger and shedding its envelopes.

🔄 变式

developed past developing present develops present developt archaic

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