beef

英 [biːf] 美 [biːf]

• n. 牛肉；肌肉；力气；牢骚
• v. 抱怨；告发；加强

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [U]牛肉

   meat from a cow

2. [U]力量

   physical strength; power

3. [C]抱怨; 牢骚

   complaint

v. (动词)

1. vt 抱怨

   complain

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 牛肉，食用肉
2. 肌肉
3. 食用牛，牛，菜牛，牛体
4. 膂力，体力，力量
5. 体重，重量
6. <美俚>抱怨，牢骚
7. 努力
8. 肥瘦（程度）
9. 不平，诉苦
10. 告发

v. 动词

1. 改进
2. 向警察局报告，申诉，告发
3. 使长膘，使更大
4. <美俚>抱怨，发牢骚
5. 养（牛）
6. <口>加强，增强，充实
7. 长膘
8. 放响屁（慎用）
9. 在溜冰事故中受到撞击而受伤
10. 屠宰(菜牛)

英英释义

Noun:

1. cattle that are reared for their meat

2. meat from an adult domestic bovine

3. informal terms for objecting;

   "I have a gripe about the service here"
   

Verb:

1. complain;

   "What was he hollering about?"
   

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。

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

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

beef about (v.+prep.)

抱怨 complain; grumble
beef 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 army
beef 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

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. beef的基本意思是供食用的“牛肉”,是不可数的物质名词,一般也不加冠词。引申可指“肌肉”“肌力”。
2. beef还可指“菜牛”，这时是可数名词，其复数形式可以是beeves，也可以是beefs。
3. 美国俚语中beef还可作“抱怨”“牢骚”解,此时复数形式是beefs。

v. (动词)

1. beef用作动词是美国俚语,与about连用,意思是“抱怨”; 与up连用,意思是“加强”。

常见错误

n. (名词)

1. 牛肉富含蛋白质。

   误 The beef is rich proteins.

   正 Beef is rich in proteins.

2. 他雇了两个身强力壮的人当保镖。

   误 He has hired as his bodyguards two men with plenty of beefs.

   正 He has hired as his bodyguards two men with plenty of beef.

   析 beef作“牛肉”“肌肉”“肌力”解时是不可数名词,不可加-s。

3. 我晚饭吃的牛肉味道很好。

   误 Beef I had at supper was very delicious.

   正 The beef I had at supper was very delicious.

   析 beef带有限制性定语从句,属特指,须加定冠词。

词源解说

• ☆ 直接源自古英语的boef，意为牛，牛肉。

近反义词

【近义词】

• gripe 抱怨
• bellyache 腹痛
• grouse 松鸡
• complain 抱怨
• grumble 发牢骚
• moan 呻吟声
• whinge <英>哀鸣
• carp 鲤鱼
• chunter 咕哝
• complaint 抱怨
• meat 肉
• squawk 叫声
• bitch 母狗
• beef cattle 菜牛
• kick 踢
• holler 叫喊
• boeuf 牛肉
• crab 蟹