cream

英 [kriːm] 美 [kriːm]

• n. 奶油；乳酪；面霜；精华；米色
• v. 凝成乳脂；起泡沫；撇去乳脂；提取精华；使成糊状；涂面霜；<俚>彻底打败

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [U]乳脂,奶油

   thick yellow-white liquid that is the fatty part of milk

2. [U][C]膏状物

   type of food containing cream

英英释义

Noun:

1. the best people or things in a group;

   "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War"
   

2. the part of milk containing the butterfat

3. toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin

Verb:

1. make creamy by beating;

   "Cream the butter"
   

2. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight;

   "We licked the other team on Sunday!"
   

3. put on cream, as on one's face or body;

   "She creams her face every night"
   

4. remove from the surface;

   "skim cream from the surface of milk"
   

5. add cream to one's coffee, for example

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. She ladled cream over her pudding.
   她在布丁上浇了一勺奶油。
2. A dish of strawberries and cream is not to be despised.
   一盘草莓加乳酪应该算不差了。
3. This cream will soften up your skin.
   这种面霜会使你皮肤柔软。
4. Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought.
   谚语是一国的思想精华。
5. She was fashionably turned out in cream trousers and a red sweater.
   她穿着米色长裤和红套衫,打扮得很入时。

用作动词 (v.)

1. Many special schools cream off the highest achievers.
   许多专业学校录取了成绩最好的学生。
2. Cream the butter and sugar together.
   把黄油和糖搅成糊状。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. He is whipping cream.
   他正在搅打奶油。
2. This cream is best applied to the face at night.
   这种香脂最好晚上搓脸用。
3. This is peach and cream.
   这是奶油桃子。
4. It is dental cream.
   那是牙膏。
5. I take only one spoonful of cream with my bread.
   我吃面包只加一茶匙奶油。
6. Its crew were the cream of the navy.
   这些船员是舰队的精华。
7. The cream of the class is made up of the best students.
   班中的精华是由班中最好的学生组成的。

经典引文

• The successful Parisian entertainer, drawing the cream of society to his little theatre.

  出自： R. Davies

• These auto and steel pensions are the cream of the crop.

  出自： S. Brill

• The industrialists..were not prepared to allow any substantial part of their profits to be creamed off for welfare expenditure.

  出自： A. Bevan

• Creaming is another potential problem: do the magnet schools attract the most able staff and pupils to the detriment of other schools in the area?

  出自：Times Educational Supplement

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• add cream 加奶油
• buy cream 买奶油
• dislike cream 不喜欢(吃)奶油
• eat cream 吃奶油
• sell cream 卖奶油
• spread cream 涂抹奶油
• want some cream 要点奶油

形容词+～

• fresh cream 新鲜奶油
• pure cream 纯奶油
• single cream 脂肪含量低的奶油,稀奶油
• sour cream 酸奶油
• stale cream 不新鲜的奶油
• cold cream 冷霜
• shaving cream 刮脸膏
• vanishing cream 雪花膏

名词+～

• chocolate creams 奶油夹心巧克力
• ice cream 冰淇淋
• face cream 面霜
• furniture cream 家具蜡
• hand cream 擦手霜
• skin cream 皮肤霜

～+名词

• cream cake 奶油蛋糕

介词+～

• a kilo of cream 一公斤奶油
• a spoonful of cream 一匙奶油

～+介词

• cream of a joke 笑话的妙处
• cream of society 社会精华

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. cream的基本意思是“乳脂”“奶油”,引申可指含奶油的食品或奶油状的物品。cream是不可数名词,如表示数量,可在前面使用具有单复数形式的计量单位名词再加of结构。
2. cream引申还可表示“精华”“最精彩部分”,其前常加定冠词the,且用单数形式。

词源解说

• ☆ 14世纪初期进入英语，直接源自古法语的cresme；最初源自拉丁语的chrisma，意为奶油，乳脂。

近反义词

【近义词】

• emulsion 乳状液
• elite 精英
• ointment 药膏
• emollient 使柔软的
• clobber 狠揍
• thrash 打(谷)
• salve 药膏
• balm 香油
• unguent 软膏
• best 最好的
• lotion 洗剂
• cosmetic 化妆用的
• defeat 挫败
• hammer 锤
• demolish 拆毁
• blend 混合
• soften (使)变柔和
• mash 麦芽浆
• choice 选择
• emulsify 使乳化
• aristocracy 贵族
• quintessence 精华
• combine 联合
• off-white 灰白色
• cream-coloured 奶油色
• lubricate 润滑
• milk 奶
• flower 花
• anoint [宗教]涂油使神圣化...
• oil 油
• buff 浅黄色
• highlight 强调
• upper class 上流社会
• upper crust <口>上流社会...
• beautiful people 名流
• social 社会的
• upper 较高的
• people 人
• beautiful 美丽的
• crust 外壳
• class 等级
• bat 球棒
• lick 舔
• skim 撇去
• pick 拾
• skim off 撇去
• drub 棒打
• cream off 撇去乳油,挑出（最好的部...