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Potato Hot 英 Pə'Teɪtəʊ] 美 Pə'Teɪtoʊ N.马铃薯;土豆 Vegetable Fruit

英语单词 potato
英美音标 英 [pə'teɪtəʊ] 美 [pə'teɪtoʊ]
中文释义 n.马铃薯;土豆
英语例句 (1) The potato is a vegetable, not a fruit.
(2) This salad is made of apple, pear, potato and celery.
(3) I like to cook dishes with potatoes.
(4) Would you like more mashed potato?
(5) Stick the fork into the potato.
(6) For the first time he enjoyed a roast potato.
中文例句 (1) 马铃薯是一种蔬菜,不是一种水果。
(2) 这份色拉是由苹果、梨、土豆和芹菜做成的。
(3) 我喜欢用马铃薯炒菜。
(4) 在来点马铃薯泥好吗?
(5) 用叉子插土豆。
(6) 他第一次享受到烤土豆的味道。
vocabulary简明 The potato is a mighty tuber! You can find it baked, mashed, or fried, among other things, in kitchens the world over.
vocabulary扩展 Potato, which comes from the Spanish word patata, originally meant "sweet potato." Potatoes have been around for quite awhile. If you'd lived in the Andes 1800 years ago, you might have been eating potatoes ever since (though you might be sick of them by now). Remember that the plural form of this starchy vegetable ends in "toes."
柯林斯解释
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[N-VAR 可变名词]See also:
sweet potato
马铃薯;土豆 Potatoes are quite round vegetables with brown or red skins and white insides. They grow under the ground.
    2
    [PHRASE 短语]棘手的问题;烫手山芋;意见不一的复杂问题 You can refer to a difficult subject that people disagree on as a hot potato .
      [N inflects]
    • ...a political hot potato such as abortion.

      类似堕胎这样政治上的烫手山芋

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