milk
n. 奶, 乳状物 vt. 挤乳, 榨取 vi. 产乳
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牛奶；乳状物
a white liquid produced by cows or goats that is drunk by people
榨取；挤…的奶
to get as much money or as many advantages as you can from a situation, in a very determined and sometimes dishonest way
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A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
不可数 可数Skyr is a product made of curdled milk.
2007 September 24, Chris Horseman (interviewee), Emily Harris (reporter), “Global Dairy Demand Drives Up Prices”, Morning Edition, National Public Radio […] there's going to be that much less milk available to cover any other uses. Which means whether it's liquid milk or whether it's [milk that's been turned into] cheese or yogurt, the price gets pulled up right across the board.
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A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans.
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An individual serving of milk.
可数 非正式 不可数Table three ordered three milks.
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An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.
可数 不可数I take my tea with two milks and two sugars.
I take my tea with two milk and two sugar.
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The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
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Semen.
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To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
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产乳
及物The farmer milked his cows.
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To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.
不及物 及物to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows
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To secrete (milk) from the breasts or udder.
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To express a liquid from a creature.
及物The Australian government has a team that regularly milks various snakes for venom to use creating serums and antivenoms.
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To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).
比喻 及物When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.
July 21, 1877, "The Block in the Courts" in The Spectator They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.
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To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.
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To masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the masturbator rather than the person masturbated.
及物 粗俗Controlled milking can actually establish and consolidate a mistress’s dominance over her sub rather than diminish it.
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From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk (“milk”), from Proto-Germanic *meluks (“milk”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“milk, to milk”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian molke (“milk”), Dutch melk (“milk”), Dutch Low Saxon melk (“milk”), German Milch (“milk”), German Low German Melk (“milk”), Yiddish מילך (milkh, “milk”), Danish mælk (“milk”), Faroese and Icelandic mjólk (“milk”), Norn *mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Bokmål melk, mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Nynorsk mjølk (“milk”), Swedish mjölk (“milk”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌺𐍃 (miluks, “milk”), Greek αμέλγω (amélgo, “to milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Latvian malks, Lithuanian malkas, Belarusian малако́ (malakó, “milk”), Bulgarian мля́ко (mljáko, “milk”), Czech mléko, Macedonian мле́ко (mléko, “milk”), Polish mleko (“milk”), Russian and Ukrainian молоко́ (molokó, “milk”), Serbo-Croatian mlijéko (“milk”), Slovak mlieko (“milk”), Slovene mlẹ́ko (“milk”), Welsh blith, Tocharian A malke.
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