Beer

[bɪə] or [bɪr]

解释:

(noun.) a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops.

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解释:

(n.) A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.

(n.) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.

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解释:

n. an alcoholic beverage made by fermentation from malted barley flavoured with hops. It was anciently distinguished from ale by being hopped; now beer is the generic name of malt liquor including ale and porter.—ns. Beer′-en′gine Beer′-pump a machine for drawing beer up from the casks to the bar; Beer′-house a house where beer or malt liquors are sold; Beer′iness; Beer′-mon′ey money given to soldiers in the British army in lieu of beer and spirits.—adj. Beer′y of or affected by beer.—Beer and skittles a phrase used vaguely for Bohemian pleasures from a simple form supposed to be a rustic ideal.—Bitter beer = pale ale a highly hopped beer made from the very finest selected malt and hops; Mild or Sweet ale being of greater gravity or strength and comparatively lightly hopped; Black beer a kind of beer made at Danzig black and syrupy; Small beer weak beer hence trifling things as in the familiar phrase 'to think no small beer of one's self.'

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