| 词汇 | eatable |
| 释义 | eatable adjective uk /ˈiː.tə.bəl/ us /ˈiː.t̬ə.bəl/ Food that is eatable is good enough to eat, but not excellent.（不算很好但）还可以吃的;能食用的，可吃的 Compare edibleadjective Edible & inedible best-before date comestible condemned drinkable edible esculent fit indigestibility indigestible inedible non-edible palatable potable pull date sell-by date spoil uneatable unpalatable unripe It was a bit stuffy, but the food was eatable. Still they were all eatable, and most of them really palatable. The tea's cold and as black as ink, growled the indignant lodger, "and the egg isn't eatable." The tongue, tenderloin and brisket are generally preferred, but all the meat is eatable. They looked at the food as critics, and acknowledged it to be eatable, with the faint air of an exile's sadness. Examples of eatableeatable The price of common articles including eatables like sugar, salt, rice, and wheat also went up. What is generally enclosed with a letter is a document and not an eatable. English can make a subtle distinction between eatable and edible, readable and legible. That trade involves the necessity of fish being preserved in such a way as to remain eatable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think it is admitted that if food is to be made eatable some colouring and some flavourings must be used. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The farmer's wife said that during that hot weather the eggs were hardly eatable when they reached the consumer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is nothing to do with the price of herring fresh, kippered, or eatable in any other form, but purely herring for meal and oil. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It may be that our trains would be cleaner and our food in many restaurants more eatable if people complained more. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You took the dog outside the room and you hid anything, so long as it was eatable, in any part of the room. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The best and most devoted cooks are at their wits' end to provide eatable meals, and the worst send up revolting messes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Maybe, but at any rate the herrings would be properly cured and eatable unlike the dyed kippers of today. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But the fact of the matter is that we are now using things which are not all that eatable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We had it on very good authority, that if one wraps loaves they can be kept for days and be quite eatable at the end of three or four days. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not mind that but when the 'unspeakable' begin to peddle the 'eatable', they should be open to the hygiene rules, as set down in this regulation. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English That meant four profits and four sets of freight and portering charges, with the produce all the time getting more and more tired and less eatable. 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. |
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