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Jerky Ride Kind Quick Beef Dried Meat Word

英语单词 jerky
英美音标 英 ['dʒɜːki] 美 ['dʒɜːrki]
中文释义 adj.急动的;颠簸的
n.肉干
英语例句 (1) She lit a cigarette with quick, jerky movement.
(2) We had a very jerky ride in the back of the old truck.
(3) The Attendant opens a jar and offers him a piece of beef jerky.
中文例句 (1) 她用急促的动作点着了香烟。
(2) 我们坐在那辆旧卡车的后面非常的颠簸。
(3) 售货员打开一个罐子,拿给他一块牛肉干。
vocabulary简明 Something that's jerky has a bumpy, lurching kind of rhythm, like a jerky off-road ride in a jeep. Another kind of jerky is dried meat. You could chew your beef jerky to calm yourself on that jerky ride.
vocabulary扩展 A jerky carnival ride starts and stops abruptly, and a jerky old movie might be choppy and shaky. When jerky is a noun, it's a dense, chewy type of dried meat. This second kind of jerky is an American word, adapted from the Spanish to originally be charqui, from an Incan root word, ch'arki, literally "dried flesh."
柯林斯解释
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]突然的;急促的;颠簸的;不平稳的 Jerky movements are very sudden and quick, and do not flow smoothly.
  [usu ADJ n]
  • Mr Griffin made a jerky gesture.

    格里芬先生急匆匆地做了个手势。

jerkily
  • Using his stick heavily, he moved jerkily towards the car.

    他费力地拄着拐杖,一瘸一拐地着向汽车走去。

jerkiness
  • Avoid jerkiness by breathing easily throughout the exercise.

    练习过程中注意放松呼吸,以免动作不顺畅。

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