gen·er·ate

verb

OPAL WOPAL S

/ˈdʒenəreɪt/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they generate	/ˈdʒenəreɪt/ /ˈdʒenəreɪt/
he / she / it generates	/ˈdʒenəreɪts/ /ˈdʒenəreɪts/
past simple generated	/ˈdʒenəreɪtɪd/ /ˈdʒenəreɪtɪd/
past participle generated	/ˈdʒenəreɪtɪd/ /ˈdʒenəreɪtɪd/
-ing form generating	/ˈdʒenəreɪtɪŋ/ /ˈdʒenəreɪtɪŋ/

generate something to produce energy, especially electricity产生（能量）；发（电）
- The wind turbines are used to generate electricity.风力涡轮机被用来发电。
- to generate heat/power产生热量/电力
- Living cells generate energy from food.活细胞用食物制造能量。
Wordfinder
- battery
- charge
- conduct
- connect
- electricity
- generate
- insulate
- power
- switch
- wire
Topics The environmentb2
generate something to produce or create something产生；引起
- to generate revenue/income/profit产生收益／收入／利润
- We need someone to generate new ideas.我们需要有人出新主意。
- The proposal has generated a lot of interest.这项建议引起广泛关注。
Synonyms make
makedo ▪ create ▪ develop ▪ produce ▪ generate ▪ formThese words all mean to make something from parts or materials, or to cause something to exist or happen.
make to create or prepare something by combining materials or putting parts together; to cause something to exist or happen:
She makes her own clothes.她自己做衣服。
She made a good impression on the interviewer.她给主持面试者留下了很好的印象。
do (rather informal) to make or prepare something, especially something artistic or something to eat:
He did a beautiful drawing of a house.他画了一栋漂亮的房子。
Who’s doing the food for the party?谁为聚会准备食物？
create to make something exist or happen, especially something new that did not exist before:
Scientists disagree about how the universe was created.科学家对宇宙是怎样形成的有分歧。
make or create?Make is a more general word and is more often used for physical things: you would usually make a table/dress/cake but create jobs/wealth. You can use create for something physical in order to emphasize how original or unusual the object is: Try this new dish, created by our head chef.
develop (used especially in business contexts) to think of and produce a new product:
to develop new software开发新软件
produce to make things to be sold; to create something using skill:
a factory that produces microchips微芯片制造厂
generate to produce or create something, especially power, money or ideas:
to generate electricity发电
Brainstorming is a good way of generating ideas.集思广益是出主意的好办法。
form [often passive] to make something from something else; to make something into something else:
Rearrange the letters to form a new word.重新排列字母，组成另一单词。
The chain is formed from 136 links.这根链条由 136 个环组成。
Patterns
- to make/create/develop/produce/generate/form something from/out of something
- to make/form something into something
- to make/produce wine
- to create/develop a new product
- to create/produce/generate income/profits/wealth
- to produce/generate electricity/heat/power
Extra Examples
- The lottery is expected to generate substantial funds for charities.彩票发行有望为慈善事业筹集到大笔资金。
- People used to believe that dirt spontaneously generated disease.人们过去相信污物会自发致病。
- a sequence of randomly generated fractions一组随机生成的分数
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adverb
- quickly
- automatically
- spontaneously
- …
verb + generate
- help (to)
- be used to
- be expected to
- …
preposition
- from
generate something (computing) to produce a set or sequence of data by taking an initial set of data and applying a mathematical or logical process to it 生成：通过对初始数据集进行数学或逻辑处理，生成一组数据或一系列数据。
- We generated 10 data sets, which we used to run each of the models.我们生成了 10 个数据集，用于运行每个模型。
Topics Computersc2

Word Originearly 16th cent. (in the sense ‘beget, procreate’): from Latin generat- ‘created’, from the verb generare, from genus, gener- ‘stock, race’.