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Stew Cook Make Stewing Slowly Called Beef Vegetables

英语单词 stew
英美音标 英 [stjuː] 美 [stuː]
中文释义 n.炖汤;焖;烦恼
v.炖汤;焖;忧虑
英语例句 (1) She is all in a stew over her lost trunk.
(2) Today I spent the whole afternoon stewing oxtail.
中文例句 (1) 她因丢失衣箱而十分烦恼。
(2) 今天我花了整整一个下午去做焖牛尾。
vocabulary简明 To stew is to slowly cook food, which results in a soup-like food called a stew. To stew also means to brood angrily.
vocabulary扩展 If you cook something slowly, like beef or vegetables, you stew it. The result of stewing is also called stew, which is usually chunky, like a thick soup. People can stew in another way when it comes to emotions. If your sister sits and worries about something, she stews. The root of stew is the Old French estuver, "bathe or stew." Back in the fourteenth century, stew was also a slang word meaning "brothel or bath house."
柯林斯解释
1
[N-VAR 可变名词]炖煮的菜肴 A stew is a meal which you make by cooking meat and vegetables in liquid at a low temperature.
  • She served him a bowl of beef stew...

    她为他端上了一碗炖牛肉。

  • They made a stew.

    他们做了一道炖菜。

2
[VERB 动词]炖;煨;焖 When you stew meat, vegetables, or fruit, you cook them slowly in liquid in a closed dish.
  [V n]
  [V-ed]
  • Stew the apple and blackberries to make a thick pulp.

    将苹果和黑莓炖成稠浆。

  • ...stewed prunes.

    炖李子

3
[PHRASE 短语]深感不安的;焦虑的;担心的 If you are in a stew, you feel very worried.
  [PHR after v]
  [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • He's been in a stew since early this morning...

    他从今天一大早就焦虑不安。

  • Highly charged emotions have you in a stew.

    高度紧张的情绪会让人陷入不安。

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[PHRASE 短语](故意)让…独自烦恼(而不加劝慰) If you let a person stew or if you leave them to stew, you deliberately allow them to worry about something for a while, rather than telling them something which would make them feel better.
  [V inflects]
  • I'd rather let him stew...

    我宁可让他一个人去烦恼。

  • Leave them to stew in their own juice.

    让他们自食其果吧。

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