Fatten
['fæt(ə)n] or ['fætn]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
(v. t.) To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.
(v. i.) To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.
克雷格編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Make fat.[2]. Fertilize, make fertile.
v. n. Grow fat.
伊丽莎白手打
例句/造句/用法:
- The brave old plant in its lonely days, Shall fatten upon the past; For the stateliest building man can raise, Is the Ivy's food at last. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Peanuts are really the seeds or pods of a plant belonging to the family called the earthnut in Great Britain, the nuts there being used chiefly to fatten swine. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Feeding and fattening countries, besides, must always be highly improved, whereas breeding countries are generally uncultivated. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- His wonderful enterprise, his wonderful wealth, his wonderful Bank, were the fattening food of the evening paper that night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- All of our heroes are fattening now as we approach the second year. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The fattening of ortolans, birds of passage which arrive lean in the country, is said to be so in some parts of France. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Or else fattened. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Both the price and the maintenance of the cattle which are bought in and fattened, not for labour, but for sale, are a circulating capital. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
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