Nutrition
[njʊ'trɪʃ(ə)n] or [nu'trɪʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans).
(noun.) (physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.
格斯編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.
(n.) In a more limited sense, the process by which the living tissues take up, from the blood, matters necessary either for their repair or for the performance of their healthy functions.
(n.) That which nourishes; nutriment.
校對:佩里
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Nourishing.[2]. Food, NUTRIMENT.
欧文整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Alimentation, sustentation, feeding,
ANT:Exhaustion, starvation, inanition
編輯:威尔玛
例句/造句/用法:
- What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Diagram showing the difference in the cost of three foods which give about the same amount of nutrition each. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- It was only toward the end of the 18th century that the vague and ancient notions that air, water, oil and salt formed the nutrition of plants, began to be modified. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
整理:罗威娜