| 词汇 | liquor |
| 释义 | liquor noun[ U ] uk /ˈlɪk.ər/ us /ˈlɪk.ɚ/ US strong alcoholic drink: 白酒，烈酒 He spent most of his money on liquor and drugs. Count a drink as 12 ounces of regular beer, 5 ounces of wine or one shot of liquor or spirits. the liquid in which food is cooked or steeped(= kept in to improve its flavour): Take the mixture off the heat once it has concentrated to a thin but aromatic liquor. Lift the pears out of the liquor into a serving bowl. Alcohol - general words alcoholic alcopop Angostura aperitif bevvy booze intoxicant juice kick libation liquid lunch long drink predrinks pregaming preload preloading quick one slug specific gravity vinosity You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Food - general words liquor | American Dictionaryliquor noun[ U ] us/ˈlɪk·ər/ an alcoholic drink, esp. one that has been distilled (= heated to a gas, then cooled to a liquid) Examples of liquorliquor This was probably due to the fact that state governments were in need of income and important taxes were collected from liquor production and consumption. Some showed up with liquor on their breath. In order to determine within which age group sibling liquor use was most important, we analyzed this variable separately for each age group. All except malt liquor (205 establishments) were populated by many hundreds of establishments. These were common nation-wide problems, expressed in different forms according to the liquor laws and unique planning, policing and other regulations in each state. Chapter 3 considers food processing - rice milling, flour, liquor, tea, and preserved fruits, meats and fish. Women were active in three areas of the economy : laundrywork, domestic service and liquor production. In the 1940s and 1950s, as in the 1930s, liquor was both the high-risk strategy of the poor and also a means to accumulation. The referendum elicited a clear ' no ' : 11,167 were against the sale of liquor with a mere 2,916 in favour of beerhalls and bars. It can be partially true: liquor contributed to health problems but it was not poison, as prohibitionists insisted. It was ' unfair ' to discriminate against men whose tastes in liquor had been changed ' irrevocably ' through urbanization. Various members of ruling families even involved themselves in manufacturing and retailing liquor. One serious vice which they had was addiction to liquor. Over and above lobbying by the police and liquor producers, the sheer scale of the illicit industry pushed the prohibition debate into the public domain. Nationalist politicians pointed out that the illicit liquor trade was so lucrative that fines failed to deter its profiteers. See all examples of liquor 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. |
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