provender
英['pr?v?nd?]
美['prɑv?nd?]
- n. 糧草；秣；食物
英文詞源
- provender
- provender: see prebend
- provender (n.)
- c. 1300, "allowance paid each chapter member of a cathedral," from Anglo-French provendir, Old French provendier "provider; recipient, beneficiary," from Gallo-Roman *provenda, altered (by influence of Latin providere "supply") from Late Latin praebenda "allowance, subsistence," from Latin praebenda "(things) to be furnished," neuter plural gerundive of praebere "to furnish, offer," from prae "before" (see pre-) + habere "to hold" (see habit (n.)). Meaning "food, provisions, etc." (especially dry food for horses) is recorded from mid-14c.
雙語例句
- 1. The ambrosial and essential part of the fruit is lost with the bloom which is rubbed off in the market cart , and they become mere provender.
- 水果的美味和它那本質的部分，在裝上了車子運往市場去的時候，跟它的鮮麗一起給磨損了，它變成了僅僅是食品。
來自辭典例句
- 2. It is a proud horse that will bear his own provender.
- 再高傲的馬也得自己馱草料。
來自辭典例句
- 3. It is a proud horse that will not bear his own provender.
- 再高傲的馬也得自己馱草料.
來自互聯網
- 4. Greedy beggars !'he observed , making for the provender.'Why did not you invite me, Ratty?
- “貪吃的花子們! ” 他朝食物湊攏去, “鼠兄,怎不邀請我呀? ”
來自互聯網
- 5. She said moreover unto him , We have and provender enough and room to lodge in.
- 25又說: 我們家里足有糧草,也有住宿的地方.
來自互聯網