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n.<美>玉米,<英>谷物,五谷,鸡眼 vt.腌(肉等)

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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]BrE
plants 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 cob
b) 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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