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Concoct Word Verb 动词   [V N Ed 英

英语单词 concoct
英美音标 英 [kən'kɒkt] 美 [kən'kɑːkt]
中文释义 v.捏造;调制
英语例句 (1) And they had taken me so long to concoct.
(2) She'd concocted some unlikely tale about the train being cancelled.
(3) I gave her a tip on how to concoct a new kind of soup.
中文例句 (1) 我花了好长时间编造这些谎言。
(2) 她胡编了一通瞎话,说什么那班火车给取消了。
(3) 我教她配制一种新汤的诀窍。
vocabulary简明 When you concoct something, you mix up different ingredients. If you want to become a mad scientist or a wizard, you'll have to learn how to concoct strange potions.
vocabulary扩展 If the word concoction makes you think of steaming caldrons or liquids bubbling in test tubes, you’ll be amused to know that it comes from a Latin word for “digestion.” Yum! On summer days, children sometimes concoct imaginative stews from grass, leaves and dirt. They may also concoct lies to explain why they tried feeding such concoctions to their little sister.
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词]编造;捏造 If you concoct an excuse or explanation, you invent one that is not true.
  [V n]
  • Mr Ferguson said the prisoner concocted the story to get a lighter sentence.

    弗格森先生说犯人捏造了这件事儿以求轻判。

2
[VERB 动词]调制,调配(尤指不寻常之物) If you concoct something, especially something unusual, you make it by mixing several things together.
  [V n]
  [V-ed]
  • Eugene was concocting Rossini Cocktails from champagne and pureed raspberries.

    尤金当时正在用香槟和覆盆子酱调配罗西尼鸡尾酒。

  • ...a specially concocted massage oil.

    特制按摩精油

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