dollop
n. 块, 团
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1.
A considerable lump, scoop, or quantity of something, especially soft food.
Each pancake comes with a dollop of suspiciously soft butter in a tiny plastic cup.
On lifting it up he was surprised by an unwonted feeling of stickiness; but when he held the instrument to the light, the reason revealed itself to him immediately in the form of a dollop of congealed chicken-broth, nicely rounded to the shape of the cup, which shot from its resting-place, with a clammy thud, on to his clean shirt-front, and then proceeded to slide rapidly down inside his dress waistcoat, leaving a snail-like track, dotted with grains of rice, behind it.
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1.
To apply haphazardly in generous lumps or scoops.
及物She dolloped a generous quantity of mustard on her hot dog.
They cobbler the plums they put up back in summer, / They bake a wild turkey and roast backstrap deer, / They dollop the sourdough for rising and baking, / And pass each to each now the brown jug of cheer.
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To dole out in a considerable quantity; to drip in a viscous form.
及物/不及物"It's fah-bu-lous to have these early salads, from the greenhouse, but don't they make you just long for summer?" Cath says to no one in particular as she dollops away generously onto plates.
词源
From earlier East Anglian dialectal dallop (“patch, tuft (of grass, etc.)”), of unknown origin. Compare dialectal Norwegian dolp (“lump”).
来源:wiktionary