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meat


/mi:t; mit/
n
1 [U, C] flesh of animals, esp mammals rather than fish or birds, used as food (食用的)肉(尤指哺乳动物的肉)
*meat-eating animals 吃肉动物
* fresh meat, ie from a recently killed animal 鲜肉
* frozen meat, ie meat frozen to keep it in good condition 冻肉
* cooked meats 熟肉
* [attrib 作定语] a meat pie 肉饼
* a joint/slice of meat 一大块[一片]肉
* (joc 谑) a skinny boy without much meat on him 瘦得皮包骨的男孩儿.
2 [U] chief or important part (of sth) (某物之)主要或重要部分
*This chapter contains the meat of the writer's argument. 这一章包含著作者论证的主要部分.
3 [U] (arch 古) food in general (泛指)食物
*meat and `drink 饮食.
4 (idm 习语) meat and `drink to sb a source of great enjoyment to sb; what sb lives for 快乐的源泉; 生活的目的
*Scandal and gossip are meat and drink to him. 各种丑闻和流言蜚语是他最感兴趣的事.


作为食物的动物(包括鱼、鸟和蜗牛)的肉

meat


n

[Language: Old English;Origin: mete 'food']
[U and C]
the flesh of animals and birds eaten as food
 I gave up eating meat a few months ago.
 raw meat
 a meat pie
 a selection of cold meats
red meat
(=a dark-coloured meat such as beef)
white meat
(=meat that is pale in colour, for example chicken)
[U]
something interesting or important in a talk, book, film etc
 There's no meat to their arguments.
 We then got down to the real meat of the debate (=the main and most interesting part of it) .
sb doesn't have much meat on him/her
BrEneed some (more) meat on your bones
AmE informal used to say that someone looks very thin
one man's meat is another man's poison
used to say that something that one person likes may not be liked by someone else
be easy meat
BrE informal if someone is easy meat, they are easy to defeat, deceive, or hurt
be easy meat for
 San Marino should be easy meat for England in next week's match.
the meat and potatoes
AmE informal the most important or basic parts of a discussion, decision, piece of work etc
 Let's get down to the meat and potatoes. How much are you going to pay me for this?
be meat and drink to sb
BrE to be something that someone enjoys doing or finds very easy to do because they have done it many times before
 The first five questions in the quiz were about football, which was meat and drink to Brian.


the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
1. Eleven cold, rainy days passed. Once he found some animal bones with no meat on them.
    冰冷的雨已经下了整整11天。有一次他发现了一些动物骨头,上面一点肉也没有。

2. Each refrigerator contains milk bottles, meat containers and packages of mixed vegetables.
    每台冰箱里都有牛奶瓶、肉罐头和各种蔬菜包装。

3. Bad meat smells nasty.
    坏肉的气味很难闻。

4. Barrels of meat supplied to the army were stamped "EA-US", identifying the company (EA) and country of origin (US).
    送到军队的肉桶上面都印有EA-US的标志,EA代表公司名,US代表原产国。

5. We can preserve meat in tins so that it does not go bad.
    我们可以把肉保存在罐头里,这样肉就不会坏。

6. We need some meat.
    我们需要些肉。

7. We haven´t got any meat at all.
    我们一点肉也没有了。

8. With less land for cattle and sheep, less meat like beef and lamb is being produced.
    由于可供饲养牛羊的土地减少,牛羊肉越来越少。

9. While active, child-bearing age women are most likely to have low iron stores, he notes, "Men are not safe, especially if they don't eat meat and have a high level of physical activity."
    他还指出,虽然积极锻炼的育龄妇女最有可能铁离子储量低,"但男性也并非不缺铁,尤其是在他们不吃肉类而又从事高强度的体力活动的情况下。"

10. This meat is not very fresh.
    这肉不很新鲜。

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