rop
n
1
(a) [C] amount of grain, hay, fruit, etc grown in one year or season (谷物、 乾草、 水果等一年或一季的)收成, 產量
the potato crop 馬鈴薯的產量
a good crop of rice 稻谷的豐收
a bumper (ie very large) crop 特大的豐收
[attrib 作表語]
a crop failure 歉收.
(b) crops [pl]
agricultural plants in the fields 農作物; 莊稼
treat the crops with fertilizer 給農作物施肥.
2 [sing] ~ of sth group of people or quantity of things appearing or produced at the same time (同時出現或產生的)一群(人), 一批(事物)
this year's crop of students 本屆大學生
The programme brought quite a crop of complaints from viewers. 該節目招致觀眾諸多不滿.
3 [C] very short hair-cut 極短的發式; 平頭.
4 [C] bag-like part of a bird's throat where food is prepared for digestion before passing into the stomach 嗉子; 嗉囊.
5 [C] (also `hunting-crop) whip with a short loop instead of a lash, used by riders 獵鞭(騎手用的, 端部有小圈).
6 (idm 習語) neck and crop => neck. crop, v (-pp-)
1 [Tn, Cn.a]
(a) cut short (sb's hair or an animal's ears, tail, etc) 剪短(某人的頭發、 動物的耳朵或尾巴等)
with hair cropped (short) 頭發剪得很短.
(b) (of animals) bite the tops off and eat (grass, plants, etc) (指動物)啃吃(青草、 其他植物等)
Sheep had cropped the grass (short). 羊把草啃(短)了.
2 [I] (of plants, fields, etc) bear a crop (指植物、 田地等)收獲
The beans cropped well this year. 今年豆子豐收.
3 (phr v) crop up appear or happen, esp unexpectedly 出現或發生(尤指意外地)
All sorts of difficulties cropped up. 各種各樣的困難意想不到地出現了.
The subject cropped up as we talked. 我們交談時無意中涉及到了這個問題.
?? 考研助記
長叉(cr)操作(op) 莊稼
?? 擴展釋義
*[kr?p]n. 農作物, 產量, 平頭vt. 收割, 修剪, 種植vi. 收獲【計】 裁剪【醫】 嗉囊; 收獲相關詞組: crop out stick in sb's crop crop up