| 词汇 | stew |
| 释义 | stewWord family adjectivestewedstewynounstewerstewingstewpanstewstewpond Food stew1 /stjuː $ stuː/ ●●○ noun 1 [countableC, uncountableU]DFCOOK a hot meal made by cooking meat and vegetables slowly in liquid for a long time 炖煮的菜肴 SYN casserole a pot of stew 一锅炖菜 beef stew 炖牛肉 2. in a stew informalWORRIED confused or worried about a difficult situation you are in 〔为处于困境而〕困惑的，焦虑的 Examples from the Corpus in a stew• Boiled, baked, whipped, fried, roasted, cooked in stew.• If you have too many pumpkin seeds they are delicious in stews or roasted on top of cheese on toast.• So he left me in a stew of doubt. Examples from the Corpus stew• There were no Pommes Anna to puzzle him, but would he find the croûtons for the top of the chicken stew?• Inside the mirrored towers of its operations complex, it decodes, translates and analyzes the electronic stew known as signals intelligence.• At the Desert Garden Hotel, the buffet line is digging into kangaroo stew.• Human and animal, they all stirred up together in some great mental stew.• Specialities include mussel and onion stew and chicken de vaux.• I was tired, and wanted to recover from the stew.• The stew was on and simmering, and the fragrance in the rectory was intoxicating.• Don't hurry with your stew, er - Vern. Cooking stew2 verb 1 [transitiveT]DFCCOOK to cook something slowly in liquid 炖，煨，焖 stewed apples 炖苹果 2 let somebody stew informal (also let somebody stew in their own juice) to leave someone to suffer the unpleasant results of their own actions instead of helping them 让某人自作自受 Let him stew – I'm not going to help him. 就让他自作自受——我才不会去帮他呢。 Examples from the Corpus stew• Younger hares take well to marinating and roasting rare; older ones need to be braised or stewed.• She could stew in her own juice.• Of course, Kate could have shrugged and let him stew in his own juice, or lack of it.• The air inside was rank with the fishy oils of stewing porpoise.• Had they stewed up a supper of some giant arachnid for Tundrish? (1300-1400) Old French estuve “cooking pot, heated room”, from Vulgar Latin extufa; → STOVE1 |
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