| 词汇 | gruel |
| 释义 | gruel noun[ U ] uk /ˈɡruː.əl/ us /ˈɡruː.əl/ a cheap simple food made, especially in the past, by boiling oats with water or milk（尤指旧时的）稀粥，燕麦粥 Cereals amaranth arborio arborio rice barley basmati durum wheat einkorn emmer farro field corn mielie mielie meal millet milo mochi short-grain rice shredded wheat sorghum Spanish rice spelt Examples of gruelgruel They are fed a few grains of rice boiled into gruel a couple of times a day; the food is placed directly inside the container. Prematurely weaned babies who are only fed rice gruel are the main problem. Her daughter-in-law remained the only person to bring water and rice gruel three times a day and to clean away her excrement in the evening. The first foods to be included are usually starchy gruels and pastes, but these must very soon be followed by a wider range of foods including animal and vegetable proteins. In many ways the book would have been better as an extended essay, since the thesis - at least as it is presented here - provides thin gruel indeed. Looking at it, it is pretty thin gruel. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the cavemen, or lions, are to be satisfied by thin gruel of this sort, they will not be much good as lions or cavemen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There will soon be little left except thin gruel for the taxpayer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Until recently, casuals were not detained beyond the night of admission has been no change in dietary beyond the substitution of gruel for tea. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But by this power of veto he could soon get you down to thin soup and water gruel. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sure its diet is splendidly scientific, but it includes no roughage and it lives on a high protein gruel. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But all of this cannot be conjured from the thin gruel of financial starvation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All that is pretty thin gruel upon which to feed a debate on those important issues. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sorry to say that that thin gruel has been watered down substantially. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I had already intended to say that this is a debate about thin gruel at the top table. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
| 随便看 |
|
反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。