cud

英 [kʌd] 美[kʌd]

(of a ruminant animal) further chew partly digested food

（动物）反刍

think or talk reflectively

深思；反复讨论

The cow in the nearby field was still chewing placidly on its cud.: 附近地里的牛仍在安静地反刍食物。

I will no longer chew the cud of misfortune that Fate ekes out to us.: 我将不再反复地思考命运给我们的不幸.

She just stood there calmly gazing at me and chewing he cud.: 它只是站在那儿,静静地望着我,嘴里咀嚼着从胃里吐出的东西.

In the old days, many baseball pitchers liked to chew the cud on the mound.: 从前, 很多棒球手喜欢在踏板上嚼烟块.

The old people liked to sit around the stove, chewing the cud of their lost youth.: 老人们喜欢围坐在火炉边, 漫谈他们已逝的青春时代.

You may eat animal that has a split hoof divided in two that chews the cud.: 凡分蹄成为两瓣、又倒嚼的走兽、你们都可以吃.

We needed a few more meetings to chew the cud on some tough decisions.: 我们需要再召开一些会议,深思一些艰难的决定.

I chewed the cud for a couple of days before deciding to refuse your offer.: 我反复思考了二三天后才决定拒绝你的提议.

cud 反刍的食物

来自古英语cudu,松脂，胶质。

2. The cow in the nearby field was still chewing placidly on its cud.: 附近地里的牛仍在安静地反刍食物。

3. I will no longer chew the cud of misfortune that Fate ekes out to us.: 我将不再反复地思考命运给我们的不幸.

4. She just stood there calmly gazing at me and chewing he cud.: 它只是站在那儿,静静地望着我,嘴里咀嚼着从胃里吐出的东西.

cud: cud: [OE] The etymological meaning of cud appears to be ‘glutinous substance’. It is related to a wide range of Indo-European words in this general sense area, including Sanskrit játu ‘gum’, German kitt ‘putty’, and Swedish kâda ‘resin’, and the first syllable of Latin bitūmen (source of English bitumen [15]) is generally referred to the same source. Quid ‘piece of tobacco for chewing’ is a variant of cud.
=> bitumen, quid
cud (n.): Old English cudu "cud," earlier cwudu, common Germanic (compare Old Norse kvaða "resin," Old High German quiti "glue," German Kitt "putty"); perhaps from PIE root *gwet- "resin, gum."