vegetable

英 [ˈvedʒtəbl]

美 [ˈvedʒtəbl]

n.  蔬菜; 植物人; 生活单调乏味的人

复数：vegetables　

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Oxford 3000 / Collins.3 / BNC.2818 / COCA.1934

牛津词典

noun

• 蔬菜
  a plant or part of a plant that is eaten as food. Potatoes, beans and onions are all vegetables .
  1. green vegetables (= for example cabbage )
     绿色蔬菜
  2. root vegetables (= for example carrots )
     块根蔬菜
  3. a salad of raw vegetables
     生菜色拉
  4. a vegetable garden/patch/plot
     菜园 / 畦 / 地
  5. vegetable matter (= plants in general)
     植物质
• 植物人
  a person who is physically alive but not capable of much mental or physical activity, for example because of an accident or illness
  1. Severe brain damage turned him into a vegetable.
     严重的脑损伤使他变成了植物人。
• 生活单调乏味的人
  a person who has a boring life
  1. Since losing my job I've been a vegetable.
     失业以来我感到百无聊赖。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 蔬菜
  Vegetablesare plants such as cabbages, potatoes, and onions which you can cook and eat.
  1. A good general diet should include plenty of fresh vegetables.
     良好的日常饮食应该包含大量的新鲜蔬菜。
  2. ...traditional Caribbean fruit and vegetables.
     加勒比地区传统的水果和蔬菜
  3. ...vegetable soup.
     蔬菜汤
• ADJ 蔬菜的;植物的
  Vegetablematter comes from plants.
  1. ...compounds, of animal, vegetable or mineral origin.
     动物源性、植物源性或矿物源性的化合物
  2. ...decayed vegetable matter.
     腐烂的植物质
• 植物人
  If someone refers to a brain-damaged person as avegetable, they mean that the person cannot move, think, or speak.

英英释义

noun

• edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
  Synonym:veggieveg
• any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower

双语例句

• Cook each vegetable separately until just tender
  每样蔬菜都单独烹调，煮到稍稍变软就好。
• How many crops can this vegetable plot produce a year?
  这块菜地一年种几茬？
• After the accident he began to lead a vegetable life.
  从那次事故后，他开始过植物人的生活。
• In that part of the world you can feed cattle on almost any green vegetable or fruit
  在那个地方，几乎任何绿色蔬菜或水果都可以给牛吃。
• This versatile vegetable can be eaten raw or cooked
  这种蔬菜有多种吃法，既可生吃也可烹调后食用。
• They are stirring huge pots of rice and thin vegetable soup over a fire made of charcoal.
  他们搅动着架在木炭火堆上的大罐米饭和蔬菜清汤。
• The giant cactus is the vegetable skycraper.
  高大的仙人掌是植物界巨人。
• Don't mix up the two kinds of vegetable seeds.
  别把这两种菜籽搀杂在一起。
• The bottom of the garden was given over to vegetable plots.
  花园的尽头留作了菜地。
• It rained so much last year that half the vegetable crops damped off.
  去年雨水过多，一半蔬菜都泡烂了。