Front | morsel |
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Pron | ['mɔːrsl] |
Back | 【morsel】 n. 一口,少量 The hungry children did not leave a morsel of food on their plates. 饥饿的孩子们把盘内的食物吃得精光。 |
Vocab | morsela small amount of solid food; a mouthful
A morsel is a small amount of something, a tid-bit, a sliver, usually of something of high-quality and much desired — like a morsel of dark chocolate or a morsel of secret information. Originally it referred specifically to food — a nineteenth century lady might partake of a "dainty morsel" to eat, for example. More often than not morsel now refers to non-food items: a morsel of good taste; a morsel of common sense, and, of course, most popular of all, a morsel of gossip. That's why, like all good food, all good gossip is juicy. All forms of 'morsel' will appear on average once every 1114 pages. morsel |
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