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fodder n.饲料；专门的工具；素材v.(用饲料)喂 (1) 猫尾草可以作为喂牛的牧草。(2) 牲畜靠丰美的饲料养得膘肥体壮。(3) 兵马未动，粮草先行。(4) 我们不仅仅是专门为职业政客们投票的工具。(5) 这些文件毫无用处，只配扔进废纸篓里。(6) 这个传闻会是闲谈专栏作家的又一素材。 Fodder is not just used to describe cattle feed. We use the word to talk about other kinds of feeding that don't involve actual food. A new celebrity marriage is fodder for gossip magazines. In war, the soldiers most likely to be killed, are called cannon fodder, from the times when armies used canons instead of drone aircraft dropping missiles.

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英 ['fɒdə(r)] 美 ['fɑːdər] (1) Timothy can be used as fodder for cattle.(2) The cattle battened on the plentiful fodder.(3) Food and fodder should go ahead of troops and horses.(4) We are not just voting fodder for professional politicians.(5) These documents are useless - they are only wastebasket fodder.(6) This story will be more fodder for the gossip columnists. Fodder is cheap food, usually given to livestock animals like cows. If you gave a cow caviar or homemade scones, that would not be fodder. Try cornstalks. 1[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]饲料；草料；秣 Fodder is food that is given to cows, horses, and other animals. ...fodder for horses...马饲料The alfalfa plant is widely used as animal fodder.苜蓿科植物广泛用作动物饲料。2[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]素材；材料 If you say that something is fodder for a particular purpose, you mean that it is useful for that purpose and perhaps nothing else.   [usu with supp]  [disapproval]The press conference simply provided more fodder for another attack on his character...记者招待会只不过是提供了更多的再次击他人格的口实。Old movies were the cheapest broadcast fodder.老电影是最廉价的播放素材。

英语单词	fodder
英美音标	英 ['fɒdə(r)] 美 ['fɑːdər]
中文释义	n.饲料；专门的工具；素材 v.(用饲料)喂
英语例句	(1) Timothy can be used as fodder for cattle. (2) The cattle battened on the plentiful fodder. (3) Food and fodder should go ahead of troops and horses. (4) We are not just voting fodder for professional politicians. (5) These documents are useless - they are only wastebasket fodder. (6) This story will be more fodder for the gossip columnists.
中文例句	(1) 猫尾草可以作为喂牛的牧草。 (2) 牲畜靠丰美的饲料养得膘肥体壮。 (3) 兵马未动，粮草先行。 (4) 我们不仅仅是专门为职业政客们投票的工具。 (5) 这些文件毫无用处，只配扔进废纸篓里。 (6) 这个传闻会是闲谈专栏作家的又一素材。
vocabulary简明	Fodder is cheap food, usually given to livestock animals like cows. If you gave a cow caviar or homemade scones, that would not be fodder. Try cornstalks.
vocabulary扩展	Fodder is not just used to describe cattle feed. We use the word to talk about other kinds of feeding that don't involve actual food. A new celebrity marriage is fodder for gossip magazines. In war, the soldiers most likely to be killed, are called cannon fodder, from the times when armies used canons instead of drone aircraft dropping missiles.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]饲料；草料；秣 Fodder is food that is given to cows, horses, and other animals. ...fodder for horses... 马饲料 The alfalfa plant is widely used as animal fodder. 苜蓿科植物广泛用作动物饲料。 2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]素材；材料 If you say that something is fodder for a particular purpose, you mean that it is useful for that purpose and perhaps nothing else. [usu with supp] [disapproval] The press conference simply provided more fodder for another attack on his character... 记者招待会只不过是提供了更多的再次击他人格的口实。 Old movies were the cheapest broadcast fodder. 老电影是最廉价的播放素材。

Fodder Cattle Food Gossip N Uncount 不可数名词 英 Fɒdə(R)] 美

Fodder Cattle Food Gossip N Uncount 不可数名词英 Fɒdə(R)] 美