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A grub is a small, soft, worm-like young insect - like a baby beetle before it grows wings. You might dig one up in the garden. 'Grub' is also a casual, informal word for food, especially simple food - 'let's get some grub' means 'let's go eat.' As a verb, 'to grub' means to dig around in the dirt, often looking for something.
蠐螬、幼蟲；(口語)食物
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
grubnoun/ɡɹʌb/
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An insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its life cycle.
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slangFood.
- pub grub
- "The rice ration's down to nearly damn-all in the kampongs, but we keep finding dumps of grub in the forest."
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slangA dirty person.
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slangA despicable person; a lowlife.
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obsoleteA short, thick man; a dwarf.
- John Romane, a short clownish grub, would bear the whole carcase of an ox, yet never tugged with him.
grubverb/ɡɹʌb/
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To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
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To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
- to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge
- They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin.
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datedslangTo supply with food.
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datedslangTo eat.
- “[…] John dear, we must give this little fellow his supper, you know.” “Of course we must, my darling.” “He has been grubbing and grubbing at school,” said Bella, looking at her father’s hand and lightly slapping it, “till he’s not fit to be seen. O what a grubby child!”
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。