英汉词典

meat 基本解释

• n. 肉，肉类（食用）

meat 词态变化

meat 中文词源

来自古英语mete,食物，来自Proto-Germanic*mati,来自PIE*mad,湿的，多汁的，词源同mate,mastoid.后词义限定为肉，其原义见中古英语词grene-mete,蔬菜，即green meat.

meat 英文词源

meat

meat: [OE] Etymologically, meat is a ‘portion of food measured out’. The word’s ultimate source is Indo-European *mat-, *met- ‘measure’, which also lies behind English measure. This produced a prehistoric Germanic *matiz, which by the time it passed into Old English as mete had broadened out in meaning from ‘portion of food’ to simply ‘food’.

That is still the meaning of its Germanic relatives, Swedish mat and Danish mad, and it survives for English meat in certain fixed contexts, such as meat and drink and What’s one man’s meat is another man’s poison, but for the most part the more specific ‘flesh used as food’, which began to emerge in the 14th century, now dominates.
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meat (n.)

Old English mete "food, item of food" (paired with drink), from Proto-Germanic *mati (cognates: Old Frisian mete, Old Saxon meti, Old Norse matr, Old High German maz, Gothic mats "food," Middle Dutch, Dutch metworst, German Mettwurst "type of sausage"), from PIE *mad-i-, from root *mad- "moist, wet," also with reference to food qualities, (cognates: Sanskrit medas- "fat" (n.), Old Irish mat "pig;" see mast (n.2)).

Narrower sense of "flesh used as food" is first attested c. 1300; similar sense evolution in French viande "meat," originally "food." In Middle English, vegetables still could be called grene-mete (15c.). Figurative sense of "essential part" is from 1901. Dark meat, white meat popularized 19c., supposedly as euphemisms for leg and breast, but earliest sources use both terms without apparent embarrassment.

The choicest parts of a turkey are the side bones, the breast, and the thigh bones. The breast and wings are called light meat; the thigh-bones and side-bones dark meat. When a person declines expressing a preference, it is polite to help to both kinds. [Lydia Maria Child, "The American Frugal Housewife," Boston, 1835]

First record of meat loaf is from 1876. Meat-market "place where one looks for sex partners" is from 1896 (meat in various sexual senses of "penis, vagina, body regarded as a sex object, prostitute" are attested from 1590s; Old English for "meat-market" was flæsccyping ('flesh-cheaping')); meat wagon "ambulance" is from 1920, American English slang, said to date from World War I (in a literal sense by 1857). Meat-grinder in the figurative sense attested by 1951. Meat-hook in colloquial transferred sense "arm" attested by 1919.

meat 词组搭配

meat 英文释义

1. the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food

2. the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone;

"black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell"

3. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;

"the gist of the prosecutor's argument"

"the heart and soul of the Republican Party"

"the nub of the story"

meat 同义词解析

meat, flesh

这两个名词均含"肉"之意。

meat： 是肉类的总称，指食用的肉，但不包括鱼类的肉。

flesh： 主要指人体或动物身上的肌肉组织，是从生理角度着眼的。也指动物的肉食。

meat 双语例句

1. Remove the meat with a fork and divide it among four plates.

用餐叉把肉叉走，分到4个盘里。

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2. The government increased prices on several basic commodities like bread and meat.

政府提高了面包、肉类等几种基本商品的价格。

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3. The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.

他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。

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4. They would sell the meat off as pet food.

他们将把肉当作宠物食品卖掉。

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5. Meat was available once a week if at all.

就算有肉，也是每周才吃一次。

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meat 实用场景例句

(figurative,humorous)There's not much meat on her (= she is very thin).

她太瘦了。

牛津词典

a piece/slice of meat

一块 / 一片肉

牛津词典

horse meat (= from a horse)

马肉

牛津词典

dog meat (= for a dog)

喂狗的肉

牛津词典

meat-eating animals

食肉动物

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There's not much meat on this chop.

这块猪排上没什么肉。

牛津词典

This chapter contains the real meat of the writer's argument.

这一章包含了作者的主要论点。

牛津词典

Meat and fish are relatively expensive.

肉和鱼相对来说比较贵。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...imported meat products.

进口肉制品

柯林斯高阶英语词典

What normal people considered pressure was meat and drink to him.

一般人认为有压力的事情在他看来却是快乐无比的事。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

What they want is the meat and potatoes of how we're going to improve this country and get our country moving again.

他们想知道的是我们如何改善国家、让其恢复活力的基本方法。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Meat spoils more quickly without preservatives.

不加防腐剂,肉会坏得快.

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The poor boy smelled the delicious odour of cooked meat.

这可怜的孩子闻到了香喷喷的肉味.

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Meat doesn't keep in hot weather.

热天,肉保存不住.

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The butcher shop will bill me for the meat I bought this month.

肉店将把我这个月所买的肉钱开帐单给我.

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Meat shrinks by losing some of its fat in cooking.

肉在烹煮时,会因失去一部分脂肪而缩小.

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He dug a fork into the meat.

他把叉子叉入肉中.

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Meat doesn't keep in this hot weather.

这样热的天,肉搁不住.

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I want a good cut of meat.

我要一片好肉.

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On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.

经抽查,发现肉变质了.

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A restricted import quota was set for meat products.

肉类产品设定了进口配额.

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I put the milk and meat in the fridge.

我把牛奶和肉放在冰箱里.

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Scandal and gossip are meat and drink to him.

各种丑闻和流言蜚语是他最感兴趣的事.

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Some animals, As dogs and cats, eat meat.

有些动物, 如狗,猫等是食肉的.

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