potatoes

英 [pəˈteɪtəʊz]

美 [pəˈteɪtoʊz]

n.  马铃薯; 土豆; 洋芋
potato的复数

柯林斯词典

• See also:sweet potato
• PHRASE 棘手的问题；烫手山芋；意见不一的复杂问题
  You can refer to a difficult subject that people disagree on as ahot potato.
  1. ...a political hot potato such as abortion.
     类似堕胎这样政治上的烫手山芋

双语例句

• Top the steaming hot potatoes with a knob of butter.
  在冒热气的马铃薯上放一小块黄油。
• Serve with baby new potatoes.
  配上小个的新土豆。
• This sack of potatoes weighs a hundred jin at most.
  这袋土豆也就一百斤。
• Pile potatoes into a warm serving dish.
  把土豆倒在一个保温的盛菜用的盘子里。
• Roughly chop and parboil the potatoes.
  把土豆大致切一下，煮成半熟。
• Prick the potatoes and rub the skins with salt
  将马铃薯戳一些洞，并用盐揉搓外皮。
• Before liberation he subsisted on wild potatoes.
  解放前他靠吃野薯度日。
• They ate a mash of 2 potatoes, 2 carrots& cabbage
  他们吃了由两个土豆、两根胡萝卜和洋白菜做的糊。
• The South American Indians have been cooking and eating potatoes for well over two thousand years.
  南美印第安人烹调食用土豆已有2000多年的历史了。
• Potatoes fill us up without overloading us with calories.
  吃土豆容易让我们有一种饱胀感，又不会摄入过多的热量。