Potato
[pə'teɪtəʊ] or [pə'teto]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland.
(noun.) annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous.
錄入:玛莎--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico.
(n.) The sweet potato (see below).
爱德温錄入
解釋/意思:
n. one of the tubers of a plant almost universally cultivated for food in the temperate parts of the globe: the plant itself:—pl. Potā′toes.—ns. Potā′to-bee′tle a North American beetle which commits fearful ravages among potatoes; Potā′to-bing (Scot.) a heap of potatoes to be preserved; Potā′to-bō′gle (Scot.) a scarecrow; Potā′to-disease′ -rot a destructive disease of the potato caused by a parasitic fungus; Potā′to-fing′er (Shak.) a fat finger used in contempt; Potā′to-fly a dipterous insect of the same genus as the radish-fly whose maggots are often abundant in bad potatoes in autumn.—Small potatoes (U.S.) anything petty or contemptible.
校對:马特
娱乐性解釋/意思:
Dreaming of potatoes, brings incidents often of good. To dream of digging them, denotes success. To dream of eating them, you will enjoy substantial gain. To cook them, congenial employment. Planting them, brings realization of desires. To see them rotting, denotes vanished pleasure and a darkening future.
德威特編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- He afterwards took another chop, and another potato; and after that, another chop and another potato. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I got a drum and went over to the potato farm and sprinkled it on the vines with a pot. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- You know those potato mashers? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- It knocked me down and I thought I was dead all right but those damn potato mashers haven't got anything in them. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- After the peanuts have reached their full growth, they are dug up very much in the same way as potatoes, a machine potato digger now being extensively used for this purpose. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He tells an amusing story of one dilemma into which his good-nature led him at this period: At Menlo Park one day, a farmer came in and asked if I knew any way to kill potato-bugs. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Harvesters for grass and grain have been supplemented by Corn, Cotton, Potato and Flax Harvesters. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- You might as well say that scanning verse will teach you to scan the potato crops. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- One of those potato mashers. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I'd dig the ground and grow potatoes. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The only potatoes we sold were to our own mess. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Their place can be taken by beans, peas, potatoes, etc. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The potatoes had to be hurried, not to keep the asparagus waiting, and were not done at the last. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- For dinner we had a woodcock with souffl?potatoes and pur閑 de marron, a salad, and zabaione for dessert. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- After the peanuts have reached their full growth, they are dug up very much in the same way as potatoes, a machine potato digger now being extensively used for this purpose. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It was potatoes and things that are fried. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The polite and attentive stranger would desire, say, to consult her inclinations on the subject of potatoes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- But I wish it grew more potatoes. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- There was the meat-pie of which the youth had spoken so feelingly, and there were, moreover, a steak, and a dish of potatoes, and a pot of porter. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
校對:弗恩