corn
美音:
[kɔ:n
]英音:
[kɔ:n
]n.<美>玉米,<英>谷物,五谷,鸡眼 vt.腌(肉等)
难易程度:
corn为小学词汇
词频:4939
词形变化:
动词过去式:corned 过去分词:corned 现在分词:corning 第三人称单数:corns
corn
/kɔ:n; kɔrn/
n
1 [U]
(a) (esp Brit) (seed of) any of various grain plants, chiefly wheat, oats, rye and maize; such plants while growing 谷物
*grinding corn to make flour 把谷物磨成粉
* a field of corn 一片庄稼
* a `corn-field 庄稼地
* a sheaf of corn 一捆谷物.
(b) (esp US) maize 玉蜀黍; 玉米. =>illus 见插图.
2 [U] (infml derog 口, 贬) music, verse, drama, etc that is banal, sentimental or hackneyed 平庸、感伤或陈腐的音乐、诗歌、戏剧等
*a romantic ballad that is pure corn 极为感伤的浪漫小曲.
/kɔ:n; kɔrn/
n
1 small, often painful, area of hardened skin on the foot, esp on the toe 鸡眼.
2 (idm 习语) tread on sb's corns/toes =>tread.
corn
n[
Sense: 1-2;
Origin:Old English]
[
Sense: 3;
Date: 1300-1400;
Language: Old French;Origin: corne
'horn, corner';
CORNER1]
[U]BrEplants such as wheat,
barley, and
oats or their seeds
fields of corn an ear of corn (=the top part of this plant where the seeds grow)[U]a)AmE a tall plant with large yellow seeds that grow together on a
cob (=long hard part) , which is cooked and eaten as a vegetable or fed to animals
British Equivalent:
maize All our chickens are fed on corn.→
corn on the cobb) the seeds of this plant
→
sweetcorn[C]a painful area of thick hard skin on your foot
1. Don´t measure other´s corn with your own bushel. 不要以己度人。
2. A farm worker, who stayed up all night, claimed to have seen a figure cutting corn in the moonlight. 有一个彻夜未眠的雇工还声称他看见一个人影在月光下收割庄稼。
3. Groups of ants were pulling pieces of corn. 一群群的蚂蚁在搬运玉米粒。
4. Corn is sometimes parched. 玉米有时可以烤着吃。
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