單詞
beef
英 [bi?f]
美[bif]
基本信息
- n. 牛肉；肌肉；食用牛；牢騷
- vi. 抱怨，告發；發牢騷
- vt. 養；加強
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詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?beefs;過去式:?beefed;現在分詞:?beefing;
中文詞源
beef 牛肉
詞源同bovine, 牛的。
英文詞源
- beef
- beef: [13] Like mutton, pork, and veal, beef was introduced by the Normans to provide a dainty alternative to the bare animal names ox, cow, etc when referring to their meat. Anglo-Norman and Old French boef or buef (which of course became modern French boeuf) came from Latin bov-, the stem of bōs ‘ox’, from which English gets bovine [19] and Bovril [19]. Bōs itself is actually related etymologically to cow. The compound beefeater ‘yeoman warder of the Tower of London’ was coined in the 17th century; it was originally a contemptuous term for a ‘well-fed servant’.
=> bovine, cow - beef (n.)
- c. 1300, from Old French buef "ox; beef; ox hide" (11c., Modern French boeuf), from Latin bovem (nominative bos, genitive bovis) "ox, cow," from PIE root *gwou- "cow, ox, bull" (see cow (n.)). Original plural was beeves.
- beef (v.)
- "to complain," slang, 1888, American English, from noun meaning "complaint" (1880s). The noun meaning "argument" is recorded from 1930s. The origin and signification are unclear; perhaps it traces to the common late 19c. complaint of U.S. soldiers about the quantity or quality of beef rations.
雙語例句
- 1. They used to buy ten kilos of beef in one lump.
- 他們過去常買10公斤重的整塊牛肉。
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- 2. A tantalising aroma of roast beef fills the air.
- 空氣中充滿誘人的烤牛肉香味。
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- 3. Beef now costs well over 30 roubles a pound.
- 牛肉現在賣到了每磅30多盧布。
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- 4. They bought so much beef that some went bad.
- 他們買了太多牛肉，有些都變質了。
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- 5. Some of the commercially produced venison resembles beef in flavour.
- 有些商業化養殖的鹿肉味道和牛肉很相似。
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