音标:[biːf] ;
n. 牛肉;肌肉;食用牛;牢骚
vi. 抱怨, 告发;发牢骚
vt. 养;加强
v. complain

beef的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. Do you like stewed beef?你喜欢吃炖牛肉吗?
  2. Africa is exporting beef to Europe.非洲向欧洲出口牛肉。
  3. He's got plenty of beef.他肌肉发达。
  4. My beef is that it took too much time.我的抱怨是太花时间了。
用作动词(v.)
  1. He is forever beefing about that.他没完没了地为那事抱怨。
  2. I 've never quite understood why people beef about the price of dinner.我一直不太明白人们为什么要抱怨餐费。
  3. We need new young players to beef up the team.我们需要新的队员来加强球队的实力。

常见句型

用作名词(n.)
  1. There's cold beef going.有冻牛肉出售。
  2. Which do you like better, beef or pork?牛肉和猪肉你喜欢哪种?
  3. How much beef did she buy?她买了多少牛肉?
  4. She bought two jin of beef in supermarket.她在超级市场买了两斤牛肉。
  5. We have bought ten beeves〔beefs〕 from Iowa .我们从艾奥瓦买来十头菜牛。
  6. Come on, put some beef into the job!来,加把劲干活吧!
  7. You should put beef into your work.你要努力工作。
  8. My main beef is that it went on too long.我最不满意的是这件事拖的时间太长。
  9. Bob is a boy with a great deal of beef.鲍勃是个高大健壮的男孩。

常用短语

用作动词(v.)
beef about (v.+prep.)
    抱怨 complain; grumblebeef about sth

    She never beefed about her miserable life.

    她对苦日子从不抱怨。

    Stop beefing about your pay and do some work!

    不要对你的薪水没完没了的发牢骚了,做点事吧!

beef up (v.+adv.)
    〈非正〉加强 reinforce the armybeef up

    It's quite a good story but it needs beefing up a bit before we can publish it.

    这是个相当好的故事,但还要充实一下我们才能发表。

    beef sth ⇔ up

    That was seen as a campaign to beef up American forces in Europe.

    那件事被认为是美国在欧洲加强军事力量的活动。

    The colony's garrison was now beefed up to about forty thousand service personnel.

    在殖民地的驻军目前增加到大约4万人。

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)
动词+~
  • boil beef煮牛肉
  • braise beef炖牛肉
  • broil beef烤牛肉
  • cook beef烧牛肉
  • roast beef烤牛肉
形容词+~
  • baked beef烤牛肉
  • chipped beef熏牛肉片
  • cold beef冷牛肉
  • corned beef腌制的牛肉
  • dried beef牛肉干
  • prime beef上等牛肉
  • rare beef三成熟牛肉
  • roast beef烤牛肉
  • smoked beef熏牛肉
名词+~
  • baby beef小牛肉
  • salt beef咸牛肉
~+名词
  • beef cattle肉牛
  • beef steak牛排
  • beef tea牛肉汁

经典引文

  • As from his cattle, the beef had dwindled from the man, but he was still large.

    出自:P. V. White
  • We..were..putting all the beef we could behind it.

    出自:R. M. Patterson
  • The Defense Department required no persuasion that the defense of Europe needed, in their phrase, 'beefing up'.

    出自:D. Acheson
  • I'd brought a half bottle of whisky..which we used to beef up the coffee.

    出自:I. Banks
【近义词】

US Embassy Security Beefed Up Despite Diplomatic Cost After the September 11 attack in Benghazi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton convened an Accountability Review Board to investigate. The panel's vice chairman, Admiral Mike Mullen, presented the

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(307) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(十二月)
学英语单词
aestivates
amphibious warships
annulus drag loss
anto-reduction tacheometer
basic ammonium titanium oxalate
be go into ecstasies over something
belt wheel
bib-and-brace
big smile
biolithic
blind power
body of evidence
bodywork
bounded sequence of lattices
bright segment crepuscular arch
Caralophia
central clearing subcommittee
centre diecasting
clap bread
cleanable
Cochlearia furcatopilosa
comdisco
commercial analysis of financial statement
condensate field
conducting hearth
consignificate
curvilinear figure
data generator
diaphragm metering pump
dump-body truck
Echonian
electrolytic action
Embden groats
enterogastrocele
eschansonnery
Escherich's reflex
eternal sleeps
extensive propertys
function authority credentials
Gammaridae
gawkily
gray desert soil
guiled
Hankel matrices
headlight tester
hon(ey)
horizontal intensity isoporic charts
hyperbolic zero
implementation planning
interlocal service agreement
isopach
izations
japonica (type rice)
kbr
Krenitsyna, Mys
lamina reticularis
liaison circuit
lightning war
limitational
link time
Lucas' sign
Marcellus II
marley floor
medialising
minimum duration
Mituo Township
nonbacktracking
nopaleas
oceanic ridge tholeiite
orchin
pai ma hai shen wu
palaeoliths
pemphigus acutus malignus
productionlevel
prototyped
RDV
real analytic bundle
recursive function theory
retriever conveyor
rhinologist
saw to
snorty
songmo-do (seongmo-do )
starting punch
Stellaria souliei
stiff-tailed duck
strewing sand
sungazing
taggard
take a roundabout course
take home
terminal affinity
Tomashevka
tunnel-type tray cap
vegetable culture
vehicle and ship license fee
vellumy
venetoes
voxmap
willow-jack
wind friction