| 英语单词 | butter |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['bʌtə(r)] 美 ['bʌtər] |
| 中文释义 | n.黄油;奶油 vt.涂黄油;奉承 |
| 英语例句 | (1) inflict symbolically |
| vocabulary简明 | Butter is a creamy spread made from milk fat. Your favorite breakfast might be hot toast slathered with butter. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The process of making butter involves churning cream until the fats coagulate and become creamy and pale yellow. Butter is sometimes salted, and usually formed into sticks for cooks to use in frying, baking, and spreading on corn on the cob and baked goods. To do this is to butter your bread. The Greek root word is boutyron, literally "cow cheese," from bous, "cow." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-MASS 物质名词]黄油;牛油 Butter is a soft yellow substance made from cream. You spread it on bread or use it in cooking.
2 [VERB 动词]给…抹上黄油;涂黄油于 If you butter something such as bread or toast, you spread butter on it. [V n] [V-ed]
3 See also:bread and butter ;peanut butter ; 4 [PHRASE 短语]明白自己的利益所在;善于为自己打算 If you say that someone knows what side their bread is buttered on, you mean that they know what to do or who to please in order to stay in a good situation or to avoid a bad one. [Vs inflect]
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