Bean
[biːn] or [bin]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food.
(noun.) any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods.
(noun.) any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans.
(verb.) hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball.
校對:瓦珥--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.
(n.) The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans.
伯特伦編輯
解釋/意思:
n. the name of several kinds of leguminous plants and their seeds: applied also to the seeds of some other plants from their bean-like form as the Calabar bean &c.—ns. Bean′-feast an annual dinner given by employers to their hands perhaps from there having been served on such occasions beans or a Bean′-goose a species of goose said to be so called from its fondness for devouring new-sown beans; Bean′-king the king of the festivities on Twelfth Night chosen on his finding a bean hidden in the Twelfth Cake.
阿黛尔編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
This is a bad dream. To see them growing, omens worries and sickness among children. Dried beans, means much disappointment in worldly affairs. Care should be taken to prevent contagious diseases from spreading. To dream of eating them, implies the misfortune or illness of a well loved friend.
錄入:莫伊拉
例句/造句/用法:
- Bean for a sewing machine in which the needle was stationary, and the cloth was gathered in crimps or folds and forced over the stationary needle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The dark bean-shaped cells are the normal blood corpuscles, and the few speckled cells are those infested with the malarial parasites. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It had sprung up in the night, or rather early morning, like Jack's bean-stalk. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Roots of soy bean having tubercle-bearing bacteria. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The Mexican vanilla beans have the finest flavor, and the longer the bean, as a rule, the better the extract. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- To make the starch: For two shirts, collars, and cuffs take one table-spoonful of starch dissolved in water; shave a piece of the above into it the size of a bean. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- For the affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's bean-stalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Thank you for the coffee beans. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I suppose the Academy was bacon and beans in the Forty-Mile Desert, and a European gallery is a state dinner of thirteen courses. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Their place can be taken by beans, peas, potatoes, etc. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- There are other excellent varieties of vanilla beans, but they have a somewhat ranker flavor than the Mexican. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Other foods, like peas and beans, not only satisfy the appetite, but supply to the body abundant nourishment. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- No bounty had ever been given before for the exportation of this grain, no more than for that of pease or beans. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Unscrupulous jobbers and dealers have been known to soak the whole beans in spirits, practically stealing all their flavor, and then by drying them place them on the market. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- I wondered awhile, but soon I began to long for a tin plate, and some bacon and beans. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Much grain also and beans. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He came back with a handful of roasted coffee beans. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Patches of poor rye where corn should have been, patches of poor peas and beans, patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Many immigrants live cheaply and well with beans and bread as their main diet. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- There are few legumes that have shown value on dry lands, but peas, beans and alfalfa are the most promising of development. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Most of the vanilla extracts sold for flavoring purposes are adulterated with Tonka beans and other adulterants, some containing not a particle of vanilla. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Wery good little dinner, sir, they can get ready in half an hour--pair of fowls, sir, and a weal cutlet; French beans, 'taturs, tart, and tidiness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
編輯:露西尔