beef
英 [biːf]
美 [biːf]
n. 牛肉; 抱怨; 牢骚
v. 老是抱怨; 大发牢骚
过去分词：beefed 现在分词：beefing 过去式：beefed 复数：beefs 第三人称单数：beefs
Oxford 3000 / Collins.2 / BNC.4295 / COCA.3505
同义词辨析
complainv. 抱怨，发牢骚
〔辨析〕
指因对待遇、处境不满或自己有痛苦等而向别人诉说，常后接介词about/of。
〔例证〕
The old man complained about the hot weather.
老人抱怨天气炎热。
They have complained of sexual harassment.
她们投诉说受到性骚扰。
She complained that there was too much noise outside at night.
她抱怨夜里外面太吵。
老人抱怨天气炎热。
They have complained of sexual harassment.
她们投诉说受到性骚扰。
She complained that there was too much noise outside at night.
她抱怨夜里外面太吵。
beefv. 〈非正式〉抱怨
〔辨析〕
指总是抱怨、大发牢骚，常后接介词 about。
〔例证〕
The girl has a beef against him.
那姑娘对他有所不满。
The old woman is forever beefing about that.
那个老妇人没完没了地为那事抱怨。
那姑娘对他有所不满。
The old woman is forever beefing about that.
那个老妇人没完没了地为那事抱怨。
grumblev. 抱怨
〔辨析〕
指因对处境、待遇不满或其他个人因素而怨恨地自言自语或向他人诉苦，常后接介词 about/at，可与 moan 换用。
〔例证〕
She grumbled/moaned about the food.
她抱怨饭菜不好吃。
He grumbled/moaned sometimes at her extravagance.
他有时抱怨她铺张浪费。
她抱怨饭菜不好吃。
He grumbled/moaned sometimes at her extravagance.
他有时抱怨她铺张浪费。
短语动词
beef up
1. 增加；加强；改进；提高
短语用例
beef sth↔up
- 使更大（或更好、更有意思等）
to make sth bigger, better, more interesting, etc.- roast/minced beef
烤牛肉；碎牛肉 - beef and dairy cattle
肉牛和奶牛
- roast/minced beef
牛津词典
noun
- 牛肉
meat that comes from a cow- roast/minced beef
烤牛肉；碎牛肉 - beef and dairy cattle
肉牛和奶牛
- roast/minced beef
- 抱怨；牢骚
a complaint- What's his latest beef?
他最近在抱怨什么？
- What's his latest beef?
verb
- 老是抱怨；大发牢骚
to complain a lot about sb/sth
柯林斯词典
- See also:...roast beef....beef stew....exports of beef and powdered milk.corned beef
- VERB 不断抱怨；大发牢骚
If someonebeefs aboutsomething, they keep complaining about it.- Instead of beefing about what Mrs Martin has not done, her critics might take a look at what she is trying to do.
批评者不要老是抱怨马丁太太没有做什么事情，不妨看看她正要做什么事情。 - Beefis also a noun.
- I really don't have a beef with Wayne.
我对韦恩真的没有什么不满的。
- Instead of beefing about what Mrs Martin has not done, her critics might take a look at what she is trying to do.
英英释义
noun
- cattle that are reared for their meat
- informal terms for objecting
- I have a gripe about the service here
- meat from an adult domestic bovine
verb
双语例句
- We sat down to dinner, a very English noe& roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, and cabbage grown in their own garden.
我们坐下来吃饭，这是地道的英国饭菜，有烤牛肉、约克夏布丁、烤土豆和他们自己花园里种的卷心菜。 - Pete gobbled all the beef stew.
皮特狼吞虎咽，把炖牛肉吃了个精光。 - Beef now costs well over 30 roubles a pound
牛肉现在卖到了每磅30多卢布。 - An aromatic beef stew waited on the stove.
炉子上放着香味四溢的炖牛肉。 - I had some fish, beef, duck, jiaozi and a dish of sweet soup.
我吃了些鱼，牛肉，鸭肉，饺子和一盘甜汤。 - Some of the commercially produced venison resembles beef in flavour
有些商业化养殖的鹿肉味道和牛肉很相似。 - The nation also exports beef
该国也出口牛肉。 - The price of cereals and the price of calves at the present moment has virtually sounded the death kneel of barley beef production.
日前的谷物价格和牛犊价格实际上已经敲响了用大麦生产牛肉的丧钟。 - He carved the joint of beef.
他切开了那一大块烤牛肉。 - The European Commission has urged France to lift its ban on imports of British beef.
欧盟委员会敦促法国解除进口英国牛肉的禁令。