Victual
['vɪt(ə)l] or ['vɪtəl]
解释:
(verb.) take in nourishment.
(verb.) lay in provisions; 'The vessel victualled before the long voyage'.
(verb.) supply with food; 'The population was victualed during the war'.
艾伯纳录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.
(n.) Grain of any kind.
(v. t.) To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship.
彻姬塔编辑
解释:
n. provision of food that which is necessary for living food for human beings (gener. in pl.).—v.t. to supply with victuals or food: to store with provisions:—pr.p. Victualling (vit′l-ing); pa.t. and pa.p. Victualled (vit′ld).—ns. Vict′uallage provisions; Victualler (vīt′l-ėr) one who supplies provisions.—adj. Vict′ualless.—ns. Vict′ualling-bill a customs document warranting the captain of an outward-bound vessel to ship bonded stores for the voyage; Vict′ualling-off′ice -ship an office supplying a ship conveying provisions to the navy; Vict′ualling-yard a public establishment for the collection and supply of provisions to the navy.—Licensed Victualler an innkeeper who is allowed to sell spirits wines &c.
整理:莱克格斯
例句:
- For aught I knew, there might have been fifty of you at least to victual. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Do you think I mean to forget your kicking me when I was a lad, and eating all the best victual away from me and my mother? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Christian, maul down the victuals from corner-cupboard if canst reach, man, and I'll draw a drap o' sommat to wet it with. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Only when a person lays in victuals for tea, a person does it with a view--perhaps--more to time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- I dare say he will,' replied the lady pettishly, 'on our victuals and our drink. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Shall I go and bring the victuals now? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- They sent me own victuals and drink, and took the government of the ship to themselves. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- I hadn't victuals enough to snore. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- These circumstances, added to the refreshment I had received by their victuals and drink, which were very nourishing, disposed me to sleep. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Her father had to do with the victualling of passenger-ships. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
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