单词详解 | forage

forage
音标
英音/ ˈfɒrɪdʒ / 美音/ ˈfɔːrɪdʒ /

听听基本释意:

外刊例句
The Mexican forensic specialists came to learn about testing cadavers for fentanyl, which is how they wound up in a field of corpses, observing as a researcher foraged in the dirt for maggots.
墨西哥法医专家开始了解如何测试尸体中的芬太尼,这就是他们如何最终进入尸体领域,观察研究人员在泥土中寻找蛆虫的情况。
New York Times

They are one of the last peoples on the planet to live a fully subsistence lifestyle of hunting, foraging and farming.
他们是地球上最后一批以狩猎、采集和农耕为生的生活方式的民族之一。
BBC

Previous work Dr Windsor has supervised involved fitting backpacks to gulls to explore how they use air currents around buildings to maximise the efficiency of their urban foraging.
温莎博士之前指导过的工作包括为海鸥安装背包,以探索它们如何利用建筑物周围的气流来最大限度地提高城市觅食的效率。
BBC

基本释意
none
none
饲料;草料;搜索

同义词
没有找到同义词

短释义
The verb forage often describes animals searching for food, but it can also be applied to people. In those circumstances it retains the slightly desperate sense of coming up with whatever is available. For example, if you want to cook dinner but have no time to go to the grocery store, you might forage your refrigerator and cabinets to find good substitutes for ingredients in your recipe.
觅食就是四处游荡寻找食物。当外面寒冷多雪时,鸟类可能会在您的后院寻找食物,到处挖掘它们能找到的任何东西。

长释义
The verb forage often describes animals searching for food, but it can also be applied to people. In those circumstances it retains the slightly desperate sense of coming up with whatever is available. For example, if you want to cook dinner but have no time to go to the grocery store, you might forage your refrigerator and cabinets to find good substitutes for ingredients in your recipe.
动词“forage”通常描述动物寻找食物,但也可以用于人。在这种情况下,它保留了一种略显绝望的感觉,即想出任何可用的东西。例如,如果您想做饭但没有时间去杂货店,您可能会在冰箱和橱柜中寻找食谱中成分的良好替代品。

文学例句
Nhamo didn’t need to forage for a few days, but she found herself following the troop anyhow the next morning.
纳莫几天都不需要觅食,但第二天早上她发现自己无论如何都跟着队伍了。
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer

After fishing and foraging in the mornings for the family, Baba was doing carpentry for Gupta in the afternoons.
早上为家人捕鱼和觅食后,巴巴在下午为古普塔做木工。
Tiger Boy by Mitali Perkins

“Okra is not edible in my book. Like something forgotten that’s been foraged and forced on us. Like eggplant and mushrooms.”
“在我的书中,秋葵是不可食用的。就像一些被遗忘的东西,被寻找并强加给我们。比如茄子和蘑菇。”
Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali

词源
forage (n.)early 14c. (late 13c. as Anglo-Latin foragium) “food for horses and cattle, fodder,” from Old French forrage “fodder; foraging; pillaging, looting” (12c., Modern French fourrage), from fuerre “hay, straw, bed of straw; forage, fodder” (Modern French feurre), from Frankish *fodr “food” or a similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *fodram (source of Old High German fuotar, Old English fodor; see fodder). Meaning “a roving in search of provisions” in English is from late 15c. Military forage cap attested by 1827.Related entries & more

下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
草料 (n.) 14 世纪初期。 (13世纪晚期,作为盎格鲁拉丁语 foragium)“马和牛的食物,饲料”,源自古法语 forrage “饲料;觅食;掠夺,抢劫”(12世纪,现代法语 fourrage),源自 fuerre “干草,稻草,床稻草;草料,饲料”(现代法语 feurre),源自法兰克语 *fodr “食物”或类似的日耳曼语来源,源自原始日耳曼语 *fodram(古高地德语 fuotar,古英语 fodor;参见 fodder)。英语中“a roving in search of Provisions”的意思是从15世纪末开始的。 1827 年认证的军用饲料帽。相关条目及更多


本站没有存储任何书籍、杂志和报纸。
页面内容只做展示和推荐。如果您喜欢本期内容请购买正版。
This site does not store any books, magazines or newspapers.
The contents of the pages are for display and recommendation only.
If you like the content of this issue please purchase the original.