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Starch Shirt Rice Foods White Powder Make Substance

英语单词 starch
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
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[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.
  • She reorganised her eating so that she was taking more fruit and vegetables and less starch, salt, and fat.

    她重新调整了自己的饮食,多吃水果、蔬菜,少吃淀粉、盐和脂肪。

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[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]
    • I took down the curtains, washed, and starched them.

      我摘下窗帘,洗了洗,然后给它们上了浆。

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