Barley
['bɑːlɪ] or ['bɑrli]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a grain of barley.
(noun.) cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain.
錄入:泰茜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky.
休整理
解釋/意思:
interj. (Scot.) a term used in games in demand of a truce parley (of which it is most prob. a corruption).
n. a hardy grain used for food but chiefly for making malt liquors and spirits.—ns. Bar′ley-bree -broth strong ale; Bar′ley-corn personified as John Barleycorn the grain from which malt is made: a single grain of barley: a measure of length = ⅓ of an inch; Bar′ley-su′gar a mixture of sugar with a decoction of pearl-barley boiled till it is candied; Bar′ley-wat′er a decoction of pearl-barley; Pearl′-bar′ley the grain stripped of husk and pellicle and completely rounded by grinding; Pot′-bar′ley the grain deprived by milling of its outer husk used in making broth &c.
校對:罗伯特
例句/造句/用法:
- He made these of honey, of barley, and, as the Aryan tribes spread southward, of the grape. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Old Barley was growling and swearing when we repassed his door, with no appearance of having ceased or of meaning to cease. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Neolithic men cultivated and ate wheat, barley, and millet, but they knew nothing of oats or rye. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Bless your eyes, here's old Bill Barley. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- On the following Saturday it was shown at Trappe, and it was afterwards used on the farm of Mr. Tench Tilghman, where 180 acres of wheat, oats and barley were cut with it. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The rent and profit of barley land, besides, must always be nearly equal to those of other equally fertile and equally well cultivated land. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Lying on the flat of his back like a drifting old dead flounder, here's your old Bill Barley, bless your eyes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Priscus mentions mead in the place of wine, millet for corn, and a drink either distilled[272] or brewed from barley. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Here's old Bill Barley, bless your eyes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Here's old Bill Barley on the flat of his back, by the Lord. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- And it would fill any one with admiration to see how he preserves his self-possession in the presence of a barley sack. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The durum or macaroni wheats do especially well; but other varieties are also grown, as are oats, rye, barley and spelt. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The two doctors were for keeping him on gruel, lemonade, barley-water, and so on. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- His name is Mr. Barley. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
編輯:桑德拉