Gravy
['greɪvɪ] or ['ɡrevi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added.
(noun.) a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats.
杰克逊整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.
(n.) Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.
校對:蒂米
解釋/意思:
n. the juices from meat while cooking.—n. Grav′y-boat a vessel for gravy or sauce.
奥尔多手打
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of eating gravy, portends failing health and disappointing business.
埃塞尔手打
例句/造句/用法:
- Joe gave me some more gravy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Joe offered me more gravy, which I was afraid to take. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The fat youth gave a semi-cannibalic leer at Mr. Weller, as he thought of the roast legs and gravy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Now you and I, Moore--there's a fine brown one for you, and full of gravy--you and I will have no gray mares in our stables when we marry. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But he always aided and comforted me when he could, in some way of his own, and he always did so at dinner-time by giving me gravy, if there were any. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- There is also a specimen of gravy soup made in October last, and some vermicelli soup made about three weeks ago. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- He shaded the dinner, cooled the wines, chilled the gravy, and blighted the vegetables. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Sit down, gentlemen, and fall to, with a good hearty appetite; the fat, the lean, the gravy, the horse-radish as you like it--don't spare it. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- There being plenty of gravy to-day, Joe spooned into my plate, at this point, about half a pint. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- In the matter of gravy he is adamant. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- All of it,' he said and cut himself a big piece of bread with his knife and commenced to mop up gravy with it. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He finished his meat and wiped up the gravy with a piece of bread. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
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