Curry
['kʌrɪ] or ['kɝi]
解释:
(noun.) (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice.
(verb.) treat by incorporating fat; 'curry tanned leather'.
(verb.) season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking.
整理:塞丽娜--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
(v. t.) To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean.
(v. t.) To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.
(n.) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
(n.) A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.
(v. t.) To flavor or cook with curry.
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同义词及近义词:
n. Curry-powder.
手打:卡尔
解释:
n. a kind of sauce or seasoning much used in India compounded of pepper ginger and other spices: a stew mixed with curry-powder.—n. Curr′y-pow′der.
v.t. to dress leather: to rub down and dress a horse: to beat: to scratch:—pr.p. curr′ying; pa.p. curr′ied.—ns. Curr′ier one who curries or dresses tanned leather; Curr′y-comb an iron instrument or comb used for currying or cleaning horses; Curr′ying.—Curry favour (corruption of Curry favell to curry the chestnut horse) to seek favour by flattery.
obsolete forms of Quarry.
校对:路易丝
娱乐性解释:
To dream of currying a horse, signifies that you will have a great many hard licks to make both with brain and hand before you attain to the heights of your ambition; but if you successfully curry him you will attain that height, whatever it may be.
录入:欧文
例句:
- You are mistaken if you think I am anxious to curry favour with rich and great people. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The curry was capital; indeed it was, said Joe, quite gravely. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Give Miss Sharp some curry, my dear, said Mr. Sedley, laughing. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- It is a very depraved taste, I suppose, but I am very fond of curry. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- I do not know how you can eat such things, he said in some disgust, as Eunice took some curry. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- A curry was exactly the medium which would disguise this taste. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Mother, it's as good as my own curries in India. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- What business has an old county man to come currying favor with a low set of dark-blue freemen? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- It was while I was in the carriage, just as we reached the trainer's house, that the immense significance of the curried mutton occurred to me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- I dunnot stomach the notion of having favour curried for me, by one as doesn't know the ins and outs of the quarrel. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- What are you going to take, Mr. Phelps--curried fowl or eggs, or will you help yourself? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Mrs. Hudson has risen to the occasion, said Holmes, uncovering a dish of curried chicken. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- At a few minutes after nine the maid, Edith Baxter, carried down to the stables his supper, which consisted of a dish of curried mutton. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
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