Nutrition
[njʊ'trɪʃ(ə)n] or [nu'trɪʃən]
解释:
(noun.) the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans).
(noun.) (physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.
格斯编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.
(n.) In a more limited sense, the process by which the living tissues take up, from the blood, matters necessary either for their repair or for the performance of their healthy functions.
(n.) That which nourishes; nutriment.
校对:佩里
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Nourishing.[2]. Food, NUTRIMENT.
欧文整理
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Alimentation, sustentation, feeding,
ANT:Exhaustion, starvation, inanition
编辑:威尔玛
例句:
- What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Diagram showing the difference in the cost of three foods which give about the same amount of nutrition each. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- It was only toward the end of the 18th century that the vague and ancient notions that air, water, oil and salt formed the nutrition of plants, began to be modified. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
整理:罗威娜