vegetarian

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n. 素食者, 食草动物 a. 素食的

发音

UK /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/
其它
UK /ˌvɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛə.ɹɪ.ən/
US /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/

词形变化

vegetarians 复数 vegetarians more vegetarian 比较级 most vegetarian 最高级

别名

Vegetarian

教材释义与例句

名词

素食者;食草动物

形容词

素食的

释义与例句

n. B1
  1. 1.

    A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products.

    素食主义者

    素食者

    吃素的人

    I went in for all books available on vegetarianism and read them. One of these, Howard Williams' The Ethics of Diet, was a 'biographical history of the literature of humane dietetics from the earliest period to the present day'. It tried to make out, that all philosophers and prophets from Pythagoras and Jesus down to those of the present age were vegetarians.

  2. 2.

    An animal that eats only plants; a herbivore.

adj. B1
  1. 1.

    Of or relating to the type of diet eaten by vegetarians (in all senses).

  2. 2.

    Without meat.

  3. 3.

    Of a product normally made with meat, having non-meat substitutes in place of meat.

  4. 4.

    That does not eat meat.

    I have a vegetarian brother

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词源

From vegetable + -arian; popularized following 1847 foundation of British Vegetarian Society.

来源:wiktionary