beef

英 [biːf] 美[bif]

n. 牛肉；肌肉；食用牛；牢骚
vi. 抱怨，告发；发牢骚
vt. 养；加强

近义词 complaint meat

CET6 考研 TEM4 CET4 中低频词常用词汇

英英释义

1. cattle that are reared for their meat

2. meat from an adult domestic bovine

3. informal terms for objecting;: "I have a gripe about the service here"

词组搭配

beef up 【非正式用语】

To make or become greater or stronger

使更强大，使更强壮：使变为或成为更强大或更强壮

beef up the defense budget.
增加防御预算

考试真题

They asked, Was it as good as American beef? It was very exciting for me to be on Japanese TV, speaking in Japanese about how delicious the beef was.

In Japan,once when I was in the studio audience of a TV cooking show, I was asked to go up on the stage and taste the beef dish that was being prepared and tell what I thought.

In Japan, once when I was in the studio audience of a TV cooking show, I was asked to go up on the stage and taste the beef dish that was being prepared and tell what I thought.

This is particularly crucial in the case of meat production, where beef uses about 50 times more water than vegetables.

This varies dramatically depending on crop, from three calories for plant crops to 35 calories in the production of beef

Beef consumes far more water to produce than vegetables.

gallons of water are needed to produce one pound of beef.

One acre of farmland use to for raising cows can produce 250 pounds of beef

For both beef and dairy production, it requires, at least in the beginning, more pastureland.

Grass-fed beef is enjoying a 25-30% annual growth rate.

Grass-fed beef production tends to be more labor-intensive as well.

It's in foods many of us expect, such as beef, chicken and other types of meat and dairy.

Last summer, Massachusetts grass-fed beef advocate John Smith launched Big Picture Beef, a network of small grass-fed beef farms in New England and New York that is projected to bring to market 2,500 head of cattle from 125 producers this year.

The company boasts that its dried crickets contain more protein than beef, chicken, and pork, as well as minerals like iron and calcium.

Looking at the beef being cooked on the stove, the mother pictured the whole family having meals together.

Their beef steak is good, too.

Yet as distrust has risen toward all media, people may be starting to beef up their media literacy skills.

Doubtless a piece of boiled beef can always be served up on Sunday alongside some steamed vegetables, without the Yorkshire pudding and no wine.

实用场景例句

roast/minced beef: 烤牛肉；碎牛肉

beef and dairy cattle: 肉牛和奶牛

What's his latest beef?: 他最近在抱怨什么？

Instead of beefing about what Mrs Martin has not done, her critics might take a look at what she is trying to do.: 批评者不要老是抱怨马丁太太没有做什么事情，不妨看看她正要做什么事情。

...beef stew.: 炖牛肉

...roast beef.: 烤牛肉

How was I to know he didn't eat beef?: 我哪儿知道他不吃牛肉.

He is lacking in beef.: 他体力不够.

The beef is high.: 牛肉变质了.

There's a piece of roast beef.: 这儿有一块烤牛肉.

The beef is overdone.: 牛肉煮得太老.

The beef I had at supper was very delicious.: 我晚餐吃的牛肉味道很好.

The beef eats well.: 这牛肉好吃.

The roast beef is very appetizing.: 烤牛肉让人胃口大开.

Beef tastes better when you boil it gently.: 文火煮出的牛肉味道要可口一些.

Walter seasoned beef with curry.: 沃尔特用咖喱给牛肉调味.

The beef is very tender.: 牛肉烧得很烂.

Women can alwaysfind something to beef about.: 妇女们总是会找点什么事情发发牢骚.

If we can't afford beef, we have to do with pork.: 如果我们买不起牛肉, 猪肉也行.

The whole shipment of cattle made the grade as prime beef.: 这批牛全部达到了上等牛肉的标准.

roast beef and horseradish: 烤牛肉加辣根酱

beef stew and dumplings: 牛肉炖丸子

Kenya's beef comes from the zebu cattle.: 肯尼亚的牛肉是瘤牛肉。

I fried up the beef.: 我把牛肉煎了一下。

They used to buy ten kilos of beef in one lump.: 他们过去常买10公斤重的整块牛肉。

A tantalising aroma of roast beef fills the air.: 空气中充满诱人的烤牛肉香味。

Thick tuna steaks are eaten rare, like beef.: 像牛肉一样，厚的金枪鱼排做到半熟即可食用。

中文词源

beef 牛肉

词源同bovine, 牛的。

双语例句

1. They used to buy ten kilos of beef in one lump.: 他们过去常买10公斤重的整块牛肉。

2. A tantalising aroma of roast beef fills the air.: 空气中充满诱人的烤牛肉香味。

3. Beef now costs well over 30 roubles a pound.: 牛肉现在卖到了每磅30多卢布。

4. They bought so much beef that some went bad.: 他们买了太多牛肉，有些都变质了。

5. Some of the commercially produced venison resembles beef in flavour.: 有些商业化养殖的鹿肉味道和牛肉很相似。

英文词源

beef: beef: [13] Like mutton, pork, and veal, beef was introduced by the Normans to provide a dainty alternative to the bare animal names ox, cow, etc when referring to their meat. Anglo-Norman and Old French boef or buef (which of course became modern French boeuf) came from Latin bov-, the stem of bōs ‘ox’, from which English gets bovine [19] and Bovril [19]. Bōs itself is actually related etymologically to cow. The compound beefeater ‘yeoman warder of the Tower of London’ was coined in the 17th century; it was originally a contemptuous term for a ‘well-fed servant’.
=> bovine, cow
beef (n.): c. 1300, from Old French buef "ox; beef; ox hide" (11c., Modern French boeuf), from Latin bovem (nominative bos, genitive bovis) "ox, cow," from PIE root *gwou- "cow, ox, bull" (see cow (n.)). Original plural was beeves.
beef (v.): "to complain," slang, 1888, American English, from noun meaning "complaint" (1880s). The noun meaning "argument" is recorded from 1930s. The origin and signification are unclear; perhaps it traces to the common late 19c. complaint of U.S. soldiers about the quantity or quality of beef rations.

词态变化

第三人称单数: beefs;过去式: beefed;现在分词: beefing;

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