| 英语单词 | starch |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [stɑːtʃ] 美 [stɑːrtʃ] |
| 中文释义 | n.淀粉 vt.给 ... 上浆 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Sugar and starch are broken down in the stomach. (2) You eat too much starch. (3) Starch my shirt's collar, please. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 糖和淀粉在胃里被分解。 (2) 你吃的含淀粉的食物太多了。 (3) 请把我的衬衣领浆硬。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Starch is the stuff that makes your shirt collar look crisp and fresh. It's also the complex carbohydrate that potatoes and rice — foods that are called starches — have lots of. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Starch can also be a verb. You can starch your shirt by adding starch, which is a white powder, to the rinse water. You can also get the kind of starch that comes as a spray, which you squirt on your shirt while you're ironing it. Cornstarch, which is also a white powder, is used to thicken sauces or make egg whites stand in stiff peaks when you beat them. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-MASS 物质名词]淀粉 Starch is a substance that is found in foods such as bread, potatoes, pasta, and rice and gives you energy.
2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](给布上浆用的)淀粉浆 Starch is a substance that is used for making cloth stiffer, especially cotton and linen. 3 [VERB 动词]给(布)上浆 If you starch cloth, you make it stiffer using starch. [V n]
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