chicken soup

短语

鸡汤

发音

US

词形变化

chicken soups 复数 chicken soups

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any soup made with either pieces of chicken or chicken broth as its main ingredient.

    鸡汤

    可数 不可数

    He should have guessed that her great-great-grandmother's secret chicken soup recipe was a can from the store.

    Chicken soup is proverbial as a wholesome food whose nutrients will help your body recover from illness.

  2. 2.

    A cure for a wide variety of illnesses or other problems.

    可数 比喻 不可数

    Duct tape is the chicken soup of plumbing.

  3. 3.

    A mixed-up mush.

    可数 比喻 不可数

    His hand got caught in a meat grinder and turned into chicken soup.

  4. 4.

    The aqueous solution of nutrients used in the Viking lander biological experiments to detect microbial Martian life.

    可数 历史 俚语 不可数 化学 生物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

soup

词源

The figurative sense comes from the fact that the soup is a folk remedy for colds.

来源：wiktionary