英汉词典

vegetable 基本解释

• n. 蔬菜；植物；植物人
• adj. 蔬菜的；植物的

vegetable 词态变化

vegetable 中文词源

来自PIE*weg,有活力的，有生命的，词源同wake,vigilance,引申词义植物，蔬菜，俚语义植物人。

vegetable 英文词源

vegetable

vegetable: [14] Latin vegēre meant ‘be active’ (it was formed from the same Indo-European base as lies behind English vigil, vigour, and wake). From it was derived vegetus ‘active’, which in turn formed the basis of vegetāre ‘enliven, animate’. From this again came late Latin vegetābilis ‘enlivening’, which came to be applied specifically to plant growth.

It was in this sense that the word entered English (via Old French vegetable), and it was not further narrowed down to ‘plant grown for food’ until the 18th century. Its semantic descent from its original links with ‘life, liveliness’ was completed in the early 20th century, when vegetable came to be used for an ‘inactive person’. The derivative vegetarian was formed in the early 1840s, and vegan was coined from this around 1944.
=> vigil, vigour, wake

vegetable (adj.)

early 15c., "capable of life or growth; growing, vigorous;" also "neither animal nor mineral, of the plant kingdom, living and growing as a plant," from Old French vegetable "living, fit to live," and directly from Medieval Latin vegetabilis "growing, flourishing," from Late Latin vegetabilis "animating, enlivening," from Latin vegetare "to enliven," from vegetus "vigorous, enlivened, active, sprightly," from vegere "to be alive, active, to quicken," from PIE *weg- (2) "be strong, lively," source of watch (v.), vigor, velocity, and possibly witch (see wake (v.)). The meaning "resembling that of a vegetable, dull, uneventful; having life such as a plant has" is attested from 1854 (see vegetable (n.)).

vegetable (n.)

mid-15c., "non-animal life," originally any plant, from vegetable (adj.); specific sense of "plant cultivated for food, edible herb or root" is first recorded 1767. Meaning "person who leads a monotonous life" is recorded from 1921; sense of "one totally incapacitated mentally and physically" is from 1976.

The Old English word was wyrt (see wort). The commonest source of words for vegetables in Indo-European languages are derivatives of words for "green" or "growing" (compare Italian, Spanish verdura, Irish glasraidh, Danish grøntsager). For a different association, compare Greek lakhana, related to lakhaino "to dig."

vegetable 英文释义

1. edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

2. any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower

vegetable 双语例句

1. Cheese can be sprinkled on egg or vegetable dishes.

奶酪可以撒在鸡蛋或蔬菜做的菜肴上。

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2. The bottom of the garden was given over to vegetable plots.

花园的尽头留作了菜地。

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3. "Why, this is nothing but common vegetable soup!"— 'So it is. madam.'

“怎么回事，这只是普普通通的蔬菜汤!”——“夫人，确实如此。”

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4. They feed mostly on decaying vegetable matter.

它们大多以腐烂的蔬菜为食。

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5. Why, this is nothing but common vegetable soup.

啊，这只不过是普通的蔬菜汤而已。

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vegetable 实用场景例句

green vegetables (= for example cabbage )

绿色蔬菜

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root vegetables (= for example carrots )

块根蔬菜

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a salad of raw vegetables

生菜色拉

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a vegetable garden/patch/plot

菜园 / 畦 / 地

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vegetable matter (= plants in general)

植物质

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Severe brain damage turned him into a vegetable.

严重的脑损伤使他变成了植物人。

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Since losing my job I've been a vegetable.

失业以来我感到百无聊赖。

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A good general diet should include plenty of fresh vegetables.

良好的日常饮食应该包含大量的新鲜蔬菜。

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...traditional Caribbean fruit and vegetables.

加勒比地区传统的水果和蔬菜

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...compounds, of animal, vegetable or mineral origin.

动物源性、植物源性或矿物源性的化合物

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...decayed vegetable matter.

腐烂的植物质

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The research development of vegetable tanning light leather was summarized.

对目前关于植物鞣剂用于轻革的研究进展进行了综述.

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All around the village are vegetable fields.

村子四围都是菜地.

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Animal and vegetable pests spread with extreme rapidity.

动植物疫害传播极快.

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Don't mix up the two kinds of vegetable seeds.

别把这两种菜籽搀杂在一起.

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The tomato is technically a fruit, although it is eaten as a vegetable.

严格地说,西红柿是一种水果, 尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的.

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After the accident he began to lead a vegetable life.

从那次事故后,他开始过植物人的生活.

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A vegetable stew can be perked up with a dash of chilli sauce.

给炖菜加点辣椒酱能使味道更佳。

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We sowed our vegetable seed yesterday. Have you sown yours?

昨天我们播下了菜籽, 你也播了 吗 ?

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The land is cultivated with rice, cotton and vegetable.

地里种着水稻 、 棉花和蔬菜.

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How many crops can this vegetable plot produce a year?

这块菜地一年种几茬?

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Most foreign trading companies in West Africa deals in rubber, cocoa and vegetable oil.

西非的大多数外贸公司经营橡胶 、 可可和植物油.

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He is interested in vegetable cultivation.

他对蔬菜栽培感兴趣.

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Beets are Hank's favorite vegetable.

甜菜根是汉克最爱吃的蔬菜.

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The giant cactus is the vegetable skycraper.

高大的仙人掌是植物界巨人.

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There are green and lush vegetable plots [ beds ] in our vicinity.

我们住所周围一片绿油油的 菜地.

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The farmers ploughed the vegetable leaves back to enrich the soil.

农夫们把蔬菜叶犁入土中作肥料.

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The pesticide was spread over the vegetable plot.

菜田里撒上了农药.

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