forage
英['f?r?d?]
美['f?r?d?]
- n. 飼料；草料；搜索
- vi. 搜尋糧草；搜尋
詞態變化
復數:?forages;第三人稱單數:?forages;過去式:?foraged;過去分詞:?foraged;現在分詞:?foraging;
助記提示
1. food, feed => fodder, foster => *for- => forage, foray.
2. forage <====> foray.
3. 諧音“佛掠雞”。
4. for / f- (food) + orange => forage: 找到橘子作為食物吃.
5. for + age => forage: 為了使自己隨著年齡健康地長大，要不斷的覓食.
中文詞源
forage 覓食
來自Proto-Germanic*fodram, 食物，覓食，詞源同food, fodder.
英文詞源
- forage
- forage: see food
- forage (n.)
- early 14c. (late 13c. as Anglo-Latin foragium) "food for horses and cattle, fodder," from Old French forrage "fodder; foraging; pillaging, looting" (12c., Modern French fourrage), from fuerre "hay, straw, bed of straw; forage, fodder" (Modern French feurre), from Frankish *fodr "food" or a similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *fodram (source of Old High German fuotar, Old English fodor; see fodder). Meaning "a roving in search of provisions" in English is from late 15c. Military forage cap attested by 1827.
- forage (v.)
- early 15c., "to plunder, pillage," from forage (n.) or from Middle French fourrager. Meaning "hunt about for" is from 1768. Related: Foraged; foraging.
雙語例句
- 1. They were forced to forage for clothing and fuel.
- 他們不得不去尋找衣服和燃料。
來自辭典例句
- 2. Now the nutritive value of the forage is reduced.
- 此時牧草的營養價值也下降了.
來自辭典例句
- 3. The Hodotermitidae are a semi - desert species known as forage bants.
- 草白蟻科常稱為草料蟻,是一種半沙漠種.
來自辭典例句
- 4. Cows and sheep depends forage to feed.
- 牛和羊依靠草料喂養.
來自辭典例句
- 5. The men have been turned loose in the fields to forage like goats under the guns.
- 這些人被解散,在槍口下象山羊一樣在田地里尋找可吃的東西.
來自辭典例句