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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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

• Recently much of their energy has gone into planting a large vegetable garden.
  最近他们把很多精力投在种植大菜园上了。
• 'Why, this is nothing but common vegetable soup!' — 'So it is, madam.'
  “怎么回事，这只是普普通通的蔬菜汤！”——“夫人，确实如此。”
• 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。
• The nuts are pressed for their vegetable oil, which ends up as margarine.
  从核桃中榨出的植物油，最后成为人造黄油。
• Vegetable fern is a type of wild growing fern.
  本地称为“巴咕菜”是一种野生蕨菜。
• They feed mostly on decaying vegetable matter.
  它们大多以腐烂的蔬菜为食。
• Animal and vegetable pests propagate with extreme rapidity.
  动植物病害传播极快。
• Why, this is nothing but common vegetable soup
  啊，这只不过是普通的蔬菜汤而已。
• On his right was a thriving vegetable garden and beyond it a small orchard of apple trees.
  他右边是一个生机勃勃的菜园，菜园的另一边是一个小小的苹果园。