straw
n
1 [U] cut and dried stalks of grain plants (eg wheat, barley) used as a material for thatching roofs, making hats, mats, etc and as bedding and food for animals (收割後乾燥的)禾稈, 麥稈, 稻草
a stable filled with straw 堆滿乾草的馬廄
[attrib 作定語]
a straw mattress, ie one filled with straw 草墊.
2 [C] single stalk or piece of this (一根)禾稈, 麥稈, 稻草
There are a few straws in your hair. 你的頭發上有幾根稻草.
3 [C] thin tube of paper or plastic through which a drink is sucked up (紙或塑料制的)飲料吸管
drinking lemonade through a straw 用吸管吸汽水
A packet of (drinking) straws, please. 請給我一包吸管.
4 a straw [sing]
insignificant thing or amount (used esp in the expressions shown) 微不足道的事物或數量(尤用於以下示例)
not care a straw 毫不在乎
be not worth a straw 毫無價值.
5 (idm 習語) clutch/grasp at a `straw/`straws try to take some slight chance of escaping or being rescued from sth 抓救命稻草(竭力抓住微小的機會以求逃脫或獲救). the last/final straw (that breaks the camel's back) additional event, act, task, etc that makes a situation finally intolerable (事情、 行動、 任務等)使人終於不勝負荷的最後的量. make bricks without straw => brick. a man of straw => man1. a straw in the `wind slight indication of how things may develop (顯示事物動向的)徵兆, 跡象, 苗頭.
?? 考研助記
睡覺(諧音):農民睡午覺,頭下枕 稻草
?? 擴展釋義
*[str?:]n. 稻草, 麥管, 吸管, 一文不值的東西, 草帽a. 稻草的, 稻草色的, 瑣碎的, 無價值的【經】 無價值的, 假的相關詞組: not care a straw catch at a straw clutch at a straw grasp at a straw not worth a straw
?? 同詞根單詞
striden. 大步,闊步;步幅;進展;一跨(的寬度);
vt.& vi. 大踏步走;跨過;
vi. 跨;
vt. 跨坐在…;
You'd better not go inside. There might be snakes.
你最好不要進去。說不定有蛇呢。
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