spoon
n (often in compounds 常用以構(gòu)成復合詞)
1 utensil with a shallow oval or round bowl on a handle, used for stirring, serving and taking up food (esp puddings and soups) to the mouth 杓; 匙子; 羹匙
a large wooden `spoon 大木杓
a `tablespoon 大餐匙
a `soup-spoon 湯匙 * a `teaspoon 茶匙.
2 amount this can hold; spoonful 一杓的量
Two spoons of sugar, please. 請放兩匙糖.
3 (idm 習語) born with a silver spoon in one's mouth => born. spoon, v [Tn.pr, Tn.p]
1 lift and move (sth) with a spoon in the specified way or direction 用杓舀(某物)
spoon sugar from the packet into a bowl 把食糖從袋子中舀到糖罐里
spoon up one's soup 用杓舀湯
spoon out the peas 用匙子舀取豌豆.
2 ~ sth (up) hit (a ball) feebly upwards 輕輕向上擊(球).
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蛇(s)把毒汁潑(po)在 調(diào)羹上(on)
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*[spu:n]n. 匙, 調(diào)羹, 匙形工具vt. 以匙舀起, 調(diào)情, 使成匙狀【醫(yī)】 匙相關(guān)詞組: make a spoon or spoil the horn stick one's spoon in the wall