beef

英 [bi?f] 美[bif]

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第三人稱(chēng)單數(shù):?beefs;過(guò)去式:?beefed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?beefing;

beef 牛肉

詞源同bovine, 牛的。

beef: beef: [13] Like mutton, pork, and veal, beef was introduced by the Normans to provide a dainty alternative to the bare animal names ox, cow, etc when referring to their meat. Anglo-Norman and Old French boef or buef (which of course became modern French boeuf) came from Latin bov-, the stem of bōs ‘ox’, from which English gets bovine [19] and Bovril [19]. Bōs itself is actually related etymologically to cow. The compound beefeater ‘yeoman warder of the Tower of London’ was coined in the 17th century; it was originally a contemptuous term for a ‘well-fed servant’.
=> bovine, cow
beef (n.): c. 1300, from Old French buef "ox; beef; ox hide" (11c., Modern French boeuf), from Latin bovem (nominative bos, genitive bovis) "ox, cow," from PIE root *gwou- "cow, ox, bull" (see cow (n.)). Original plural was beeves.
beef (v.): "to complain," slang, 1888, American English, from noun meaning "complaint" (1880s). The noun meaning "argument" is recorded from 1930s. The origin and signification are unclear; perhaps it traces to the common late 19c. complaint of U.S. soldiers about the quantity or quality of beef rations.

1. They used to buy ten kilos of beef in one lump.: 他們過(guò)去常買(mǎi)10公斤重的整塊牛肉。

5. Some of the commercially produced venison resembles beef in flavour.: 有些商業(yè)化養(yǎng)殖的鹿肉味道和牛肉很相似。