Sweetbread
['swiːtbred]
解释:
(n.) Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.
(n.) The pancreas.
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例句:
- After some discussion on the relative merits of veal-cutlet, sweetbread, and lobster, a decision was pronounced in favour of veal-cutlet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Whom she meant, she did not say; but she could scarcely have meant the sweetbread. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- She apportioned the sweetbreads, jellies, chickens; their quantity and order. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
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