Beef
[biːf] or [bif]
解释:
(noun.) cattle that are reared for their meat.
(noun.) meat from an adult domestic bovine.
欧内斯廷编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.
(n.) The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.
(n.) Applied colloquially to human flesh.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
编辑:诺拉
同义词及近义词：
n. Flesh of neat-cattle.
整理:华莱士
解释:
n. the flesh of an ox or cow:—pl. Beeves used in original sense oxen.—adj. consisting of beef.—ns. Beef′-eat′er (bēf′-ēt′ėr) a popular name for a yeoman of the sovereign's guard also of the warders of the Tower of London ; Beef′iness; Beef′steak a thick slice of beef for broiling or frying; Beef′tea a stimulating rather than nutritious food for invalids being the juice of beef strained off after simmering chopped beef in water.—adjs. Beef′-wit′ted Beef′-brained dull or heavy in wits: stupid.—n. Beef′-wood an Australian wood of reddish colour used in cabinetwork.—adj. Beef′y like beef fleshy stolid.
校对:迈克尔
娱乐性解释：
If raw and bloody, cancers and tumors of a malignant nature will attack the subject. Be on your guard as to bruises and hurts of any kind. To see, or eat cooked beef, anguish surpassing human aid is before you. Loss of life by horrible means will occur. Beef properly served under pleasing surroundings denotes harmonious states in love and business, if otherwise, evil is foreboded, though it may be of a trifling nature.
手打:梅尔瓦
例句:
- Where's the beef and vegetables I sent home, and the pudding you promised? 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Their mutton yields to ours, but their beef is excellent. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- He therefore concluded that the stored-up fat in the animal was then converted into cream, and that it was practicable, therefore, to convert beef fat into butter fat. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- A pint of porter with my cold beef at Marlborough was enough to over-set me. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- At one time, the beef was too large, at another the mutton was not fat enough. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- In the parliamentary inquiry in 1764, the witnesses stated the price of the choice pieces of the best beef to be to the consumer 4d. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- I have a piece of beef which was dipped Feb. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
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