beef
n. 牛肉, 肌肉 vt. 养(牛), 宰(牛) vi. 抱怨, 告发
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教材释义与例句
牛肉；肌肉；食用牛；牢骚
the meat from a cow
抱怨，告发；发牢骚
to complain a lot
释义与例句
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The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
不可数 可数I love eating beef.
He was cooking beef for lunch.
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The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
可数 不可数lean finely textured beef
boneless lean beef trimmings
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The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
俚语 不可数 引申义 可数Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the bump.
We've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that law.
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The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
牛肉
比喻 俚语 不可数 可数The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.
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Bovine animals.
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A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
加拿大 美国 可数 不可数Do you want to raise beeves?
263. If he [one to whom a beef or sheep is loaned] ruins the beef or sheep that was loaned him, he is to return to the owner a beef for a beef and a sheep for a sheep.
Cutting out a Beef for branding
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A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
牢骚
可数 俚语 不可数He's got beef over what you said.
He's got a beef with everyone in the room.
Remember what happened last fall? That's his beef with me.
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A criminal charge.
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Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
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To complain.
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To add weight or strength to.
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To fart; break wind.
不及物 俚语Ugh, who just beefed in here?
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To cry.
不及物David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off.
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To fail or mess up.
俚语 及物I beefed my presentation hard yesterday.
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To feud or hold a grudge against.
多元文化伦敦英语 不及物 俚语 非裔美国英语Those two are beefing right now — best you stay out of it.
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To sing or speak loudly; to cry out.
澳大利亚 不及物 俚语
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Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
We bought three beef calves this morning.
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Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
beef farms
beef country
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Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
beef stew
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Beefy; powerful; robust.
俚语Wow, your audio setup is beef!
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PIE word *gʷṓws From Middle English beef, bef, beof, borrowed from Anglo-Norman beof, Old French buef, boef (“ox”) (modern French bœuf); from Latin bovem (“ox”), from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Doublet of cow. Beef in the sense of “a grudge, argument” was originally an American slang expression: * attested as a verb “to complain” in 1888: “He'll beef an' kick like a steer an' let on he won't never wear 'em.”— New York World, 13 May; * attested as a noun “complaint, protest, grievance, sim.” in 1899: “He made a Horrible Beef because he couldn't get Loaf Sugar for his Coffee.”—Fables in Slang (1900) by George Ade, page 80. As to the possible origin of this American usage, it has been suggested that it can be traced back to a British expression for “alarm”, first recorded in 1725: "BEEF 'to alarm, as To cry beef upon us; they have discover'd us, and are in Pursuit of us". The term "beef" in this context would be a Cockney rhyming slang of thief. However, the continuous use of a similar expression, including its assumed semantic shift to 'complaint' in the United States from the 1880s onwards, needs further clarification.
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