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词汇 plum
释义 plum
noun[ C or U ]
uk /plʌm/ us /plʌm/
a small, round fruit with a thin, smooth, red, purple, or yellow skin, sweet, soft flesh, and a single large, hard seed; the tree on which this fruit grows: 李子;梅子
plum jam李子酱
a plum tree李子树
Grandad planted a lot of fruit trees, including gooseberry, blackcurrant, plum, and loganberry.
 
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purple plums紫色的李子
These plums are a bit sour.这些李子有点酸。
Peaches, plums, dates, avocados, and olives all contain stones.
She bit into a plum.
plum crumble
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Types of fruit
ackee
alligator pear
alpine strawberry
amla
açaí
cloudberry
coconut
cooker
cooking apple
copra
litchi
loganberry
longan
loquat
lychee
Red Delicious
redcurrant
rockmelon
rose hip
salmonberry
plum
adjective
uk /plʌm/ us /plʌm/

plumadjective (GOOD)


[ before noun ]plummer | plummest
very good and worth having: 好的;值得拥有的
How did you manage to get such a plum job?你是怎么找到这么好的工作的?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Informal words for good
A-OK
amazeballs
apple pie
awesomesauce
badass
dank
jim-dandy
juicy
killer
knock
knock spots off somethingidiom
like a bossidiom
out of sightidiom
royally
rule OKidiom
safe
shabby
shit hot
sight
steal

plumadjective (COLOUR)


(alsoplum-coloured)
having a dark reddish-purple colour: 紫红色的
a plum-coloured dress紫红色的连衣裙
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Less common colours
apple green
argent
ashy
avocado
baby blue
carmine
cerise
dun
emerald
peacock blue
puce
racing green
ruddily
rust
salmon pink
sanguine
sapphire
shocking pink
sky blue
verdure

Idiom


a plum in your mouth

plum | American Dictionary


plum
noun[ C ]
us/plʌm/

plumnoun[C] (FRUIT)


a small, round fruit with a smooth, usually red-purple skin, sweet flesh, and a single large seed

plumnoun[C] (SOMETHING GOOD)


something that is very good and worth having

plum


adjective[ not gradable ]us/plʌm/
Senior staff members get all the plum assignments.

Examples of plum


plum
A number of interests conducted experiments on a commercial scale in the drying of plums.
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In the case of cherries and plums, the prices of the foreign fruit were higher.
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Then the alternatives were quoted—melons, cherries, plums and pears.
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Plums and cherries sound very much nicer, and one is glad to go from the vegetable world to the fruit world.
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At present the rates of wages which you offer are too low, the prospects are hazy, and the plums are too few.
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We have all got to pay more for currants, plums, potatoes, tomatoes and turnips.
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At the start of the 1948 season the prospects are that there will be a good crop of plums.
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You would leave it like a cake without any plums in it.
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I do not believe that it would be an attraction to entrants into the teaching profession if there were a few large plums.
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The position in regard to plums is still a little uncertain.
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They are the less loss-making part, the plums.
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Let me give an instance with regard to plums.
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I do not see why one should not produce their plums and give them a bit of publicity, even if we cannot get any ourselves.
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I have also looked after hens, picked small fruit, and picked and sorted pears, apples and plums.
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There is a reasonable prospect of plums becoming available for home jam-making later in the year.
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