n.名词
牛肉富含蛋白质。❌ The beef is rich proteins.
✔️ Beef is rich in proteins.
他雇了两个身强力壮的人当保镖。❌ He has hired as his bodyguards two men with plenty of beefs.
✔️ 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。
我晚饭吃的牛肉味道很好。❌ Beef I had at supper was very delicious.
✔️ 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。
直接源自古英语的boef，意为牛，牛肉。
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
用作动词v.
beef about v.+prep.
抱怨 complain; grumble
beef about sthShe 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 upIt'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 ⇔ upThat 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。beef-s复数⇒n.牛肉⁸²;肌肉²;力气¹;牢骚v.抱怨³;告发¹;加强⁹n.食用肉;食用牛;牛;菜牛;牛体;膂力;体力;力量;体重;重量;牢骚²;努力;肥瘦程度不平;诉苦v.改进;向警察局报告;申诉;使长膘;使更大;发牢骚;养牛加强⁹;增强;充实;长膘;放响屁慎用在溜冰事故中受到撞击而受伤;屠宰菜牛近义词 meat肉kick踢crab蟹carp鲤鱼gripe抱怨bitch母狗boeuf牛肉grouse松鸡moan呻吟声whinge哀鸣squawk叫声holler叫喊chunter咕哝complain抱怨bellyache腹痛grumble发牢骚complaint抱怨beef cattle菜牛
用作名词n.There's cold beef going.有冻牛肉出售。
Which do you like better, beef or pork?牛肉和猪肉你喜欢哪种？
How much beef did she buy?她买了多少牛肉？
She bought two jin of beef in supermarket.她在超级市场买了两斤牛肉。
We have bought ten beeves beefs from Iowa .我们从艾奥瓦买来十头菜牛。
Come on, put some beef into the job!来,加把劲干活吧!
You should put beef into your work.你要努力工作。
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。
Bob is a boy with a great deal of beef.鲍勃是个高大健壮的男孩。
n.名词
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”。
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。
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
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”。
名词72%,动词28%
用作名词Do you like stewedbeef?你喜欢吃炖牛肉吗？
Africa is exportingbeefto Europe.非洲向欧洲出口牛肉。
He's got plenty ofbeef.他肌肉发达。
Mybeefis that it took too much time.我的抱怨是太花时间了。用作动词He is foreverbeefingabout that.他没完没了地为那事抱怨。
I 've never quite understood why peoplebeefabout the price of dinner.我一直不太明白人们为什么要抱怨餐费。
We need new young players tobeefup the team.我们需要新的队员来加强球队的实力。 China beefs up security checks for Asian Games.
中国加强广州亚运会安检工作。 www.17tx.com