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Beef Word Meat Beefing I Complaint Cow 英

英语单词 beef
英美音标 英 [biːf] 美 [biːf]
中文释义 n.牛肉;肌肉;力气;牢骚
v.抱怨;告发;加强
英语例句 (1) Do you like stewed beef?
(2) Africa is exporting beef to Europe.
(3) My beef is that it took too much time.
(4) He is forever beefing about that.
(5) I 've never quite understood why people beef about the price of dinner.
(6) We need new young players to beef up the team.
中文例句 (1) 你喜欢吃炖牛肉吗?
(2) 非洲向欧洲出口牛肉。
(3) 我的抱怨是太花时间了。
(4) 他没完没了地为那事抱怨。
(5) 我一直不太明白人们为什么要抱怨餐费。
(6) 我们需要新的队员来加强球队的实力。
vocabulary简明 Beef is meat from a cow. It's also a word for a complaint. If you have a beef with someone, you’re not sharing a steak, you have a gripe. Just don’t beef to a cow; her problems are worse.
vocabulary扩展 Beef is a type of meat from cattle. If you've ever had a hamburger, you've had beef. The word beef comes from the Old French word buef, which became the word for basically, cow meat. Beef is to cow as pork is to pig or mutton is to sheep. On the other hand, if you have a beef with someone, you have a complaint. Beefing is expressing such feelings.
柯林斯解释
1
[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]See also:
corned beef
牛肉 Beef is the meat of a cow, bull, or ox.
  • ...roast beef.

    烤牛肉

  • ...beef stew.

    炖牛肉

  • ...exports of beef and powdered milk.

    牛肉和奶粉的出口

2
[VERB 动词]不断抱怨;大发牢骚 If someone beefs about something, they keep complaining about it.
  [no passive]
  [disapproval]
  [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • Instead of beefing about what Mrs Martin has not done, her critics might take a look at what she is trying to do.

    批评者不要老是抱怨马丁太太没有做什么事情,不妨看看她正要做什么事情。

  • Beef is also a noun.
    • I really don't have a beef with Wayne.

      我对韦恩真的没有什么不满的。

相关词组:
beef up

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