straw
n. 稻草, 麦管, 吸管, 一文不值的东西, 草帽 a. 稻草的, 稻草色的, 琐碎的, 无价值的
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教材释义与例句
稻草；吸管；一文不值的东西
a thin tube of paper or plastic for sucking up liquid from a bottle or a cup
稻草的；无价值的
having little value or substance
释义与例句
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A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
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Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
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A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
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Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
可数 比喻 不可数to not care a straw
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A straw owner.
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A drinking straw.
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To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
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To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
废旧 俚语
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Made of straw.
straw hat
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Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
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Imaginary, but presented as real.
比喻A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon.
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From Middle English straw, from Old English strēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą (“that which is strewn, straw”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread around, strew”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sträi (“straw”), West Frisian strie (“straw”), Dutch stro (“straw”), German Low German Stroh (“straw”), German Stroh (“straw”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish strå (“straw”), Icelandic strá (“straw”), Walloon strin, Albanian shtrohë (“kennel”).
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