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As a noun, a stew is a dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly together in liquid until soft — comfort food in a lot of cultures. As a verb, to stew means to cook that way, but it also has an everyday figurative meaning: to stew (or 'stew over' something) means to worry about it for a long time, going over it again and again in your mind without doing anything.
(名詞)燉菜、燉肉;(動詞)燉煮;(比喻)心裡煩惱、悶悶不樂地想
組成Probably related, a long way back, to the word 'stove' — both may trace to an old word for a heated room used for steam-bathing.
同家族的字
- stoveboth may trace back to an old word for a heated steam-room
原始詞典資料16 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。
Stewname/stu/
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A diminutive of the male given name Stewart.
stewnoun詞源 1/stʃʉː/
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obsoleteA cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.
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historicalA heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.
- And when he came to the chamber there as this lady was the dores of yron vnlocked and vnbolted / And so syr launcelot wente in to the chambre that was as hote as ony stewe / And there syr launcelot toke the fayrest lady by the hand / that euer he sawe / and she was naked as a nedel And when he came to the chamber thereas this lady was, the doors of iron unlocked and unbolted. And so Sir Launcelot went into the chamber that was as hot as any stew. And there Sir Launcelot took the fairest lady by the hand that ever he saw, and she was naked as a needle
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archaicA brothel.
- [...] and the agrieved person shall doe more manly, to be extraordinary and singular in claiming the due right whereof he is frustrated, then to piece up his lost contentment by visiting the Stews, or stepping to his neighbours bed, which is the common shift in this mis-fortune, or els by suffering his usefull life to wast away and be lost under a secret affliction of an unconscionable size to humane strength.
- And rak'd, for converts, even the court and stews.
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obsoleteA prostitute.
- But it was so plotted betwixt the Lady, her Husband, and Bristol, that instead of that beauty, he had a notorious Stew sent him, and surely his carriage there was so lascivious...
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A dish cooked by stewing.
- I noticed then that there was nothing to drink on the table but brandy, and nothing to eat but salted herrings, and a hot, sickly, highly peppered stew.
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A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.
- It was used as a stew, so that the inhabitants of the castle could have fish on Fridays, and for this reason the architects had been careful not to let the drains and sewers run into it. It was stocked with fish every year.
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regionalAn artificial bed of oysters.
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slangA state of agitated excitement, worry, or confusion.
- to be in a stew
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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slangbroadcastingmediaUnwanted background noise recorded by the microphone.
- mike stew
stewverb詞源 2/stʃʉː/
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To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
- I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole.
- The meat is stewing nicely.
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To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
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To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
- It was an honest letter, written by an honest man, then stewing in the Plains on two hundred rupees a month (for he allowed his wife eight hundred and fifty), and in a silk banian and cotton trousers.
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To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
stewnoun詞源 3/stʃʉː/
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A cloud of fine particles or droplets; dust, smoke, vapor, mist, or sea-spray.
- The Verna swerved close, her stern kicking up a stew as she started to back up.
- 'Johnston,' Ron shouted, 'couldn't knock the stew off a bap.'
stewnoun詞源 4/stʃʉː/
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informalA steward or stewardess on an airplane or boat.
- It is our considered and combined judgement that Germans and actors share honors for being the cheapest dates a stew can accept.
- And then, working as a stew for American Airlines, Mo met another older man[…].
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。