Oat
[əʊt] or [ot]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats').
(noun.) annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats').
雅克校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense.
(n.) A musical pipe made of oat straw.
安托万整理
解釋/意思:
n. a well-known grassy plant the seeds of which are much used as food: its seeds: a musical pipe of oat-straw: a shepherd's pipe pastoral song generally.—n. Oat′cake a thin broad cake made of oatmeal.—adj. Oat′en consisting of an oat stem or straw: made of oatmeal.—ns. Oat′-grass two species of oat useful more as fodder than for the seed; Oat′meal meal made of oats.—Sow one's wild oats to indulge in the usual youthful dissipations.
編輯:威尔玛
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream that oats hold the vision, portends a variety of good things. The farmer will especially advance in fortune and domestic harmony. To see decayed oats, foretells that sorrow will displace bright hopes.
尤金伲亚整理
娱乐性解釋/意思：
England's horse-feed, America's breakfast and Scotland's table-d'hote.
錄入:斯科特
例句/造句/用法:
- Half-an-hour's recreation succeeded, then study; then the glass of water and the piece of oat-cake, prayers, and bed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- They have wine and spices and fair bread; and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Neolithic men cultivated and ate wheat, barley, and millet, but they knew nothing of oats or rye. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Stiff, coarse straw will not answer unless packed very solid; finer and softer, as of thickly sown oats, is better, and the walls which it forms need not be quite so thick. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- I did not altogether like Elliston in _Wild Oats. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The American college student has the gravity and mental habits of a Supreme Court judge; his wild oats are rarely spiritual; the critical, analytical habit of mind is distrusted. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- On the following Saturday it was shown at Trappe, and it was afterwards used on the farm of Mr. Tench Tilghman, where 180 acres of wheat, oats and barley were cut with it. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The land was divided by long rows of trees, not regularly planted, but naturally growing; there was great plenty of grass, and several fields of oats. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Oats in their tongue are called _hlunnh_. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Only I wish you had sown those wild oats of yours, George. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I hope Osborne has sown his wild oats, said Mrs. Magenis to Mrs. Bunny. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The American machine cut an acre of oats in twenty-two minutes, the English machine in sixty-six minutes, and the Algerian in seventy-two. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The horse immediately ordered a white mare servant of his family to bring me a good quantity of oats in a sort of wooden tray. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Elliston plays in _Wild Oats_, but he will come to us between the acts, or after the play, I have no doubt. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- They dined in the best room, and had oats boiled in milk for the second course, which the old horse ate warm, but the rest cold. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The prices of malt and oats seem here to lie higher than their ordinary proportion to the price of wheat. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
錄入:曼蒂