Gruel
['grʊəl] or ['ɡruəl]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.
简錄入
解釋/意思:
n. a thin food made by boiling oatmeal in water.
整理:保罗
例句/造句/用法:
- In one hand he bore a light, in the other a receptacle containing a gruel-like mixture--the common prison fare of Barsoom. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I must really be allowed to digest my gruel. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- To soothe her mother's anxiety she submitted to a basin of gruel. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- You must go to bed early, my dearand I recommend a little gruel to you before you go. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The gruel disappeared; the boys whispered each other, and winked at Oliver; while his next neighbors nudged him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Briggs too well heard the creaking Firkin descend the stairs, and the clink of the spoon and gruel-basin the neglected female carried. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Give it a little gruel if it is. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The relief was inseparable from the workhouse and the gruel; and that frightened people. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- If you had kept the boy on gruel, ma'am, this would never have happened. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Hannah had brought me some gruel and dry toast, about, as I supposed, the dinner-hour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- My dear Emma, suppose we all have a little gruel. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Wipe your eyes with the cuffs of your jacket, and don't cry into your gruel; that's a very foolish action, Oliver. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- 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.
- Hannah says you have had nothing but some gruel since breakfast. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- That is the kind of gruel which has been served out from Palestine for ages. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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