【cabbage】 - AEAS备考词汇

cabbage

UK:  [ˈkæbɪdʒ]

US:  [ˈkæbɪdʒ]

复数：cabbages  

n.

1.【食,植】甘蓝,又称“卷心菜”,“洋白菜”

2.〈非正式,侮辱〉植物人,常用于英式英语

3.〈俚〉钱,尤指纸币,常用于美式俚语

1 . Give it a clean cabbage leaf twice a week.
一周给它两次清洁的菜叶。

2 . papa sometimes would cut the heart out of a cabbage palmetto, and mama would cook it, slowly, in the black kettle.
爸爸有时会切下甘蓝菜的菜心让妈妈在黑壶里慢慢地做菜。

3 . Training is everything: the peach is once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with college education.
训练就是一切：水蜜桃的前身是苦李子，而花椰菜无非是受过大学教育的椰菜罢了。

4 . In the dark, I stepped on a piece of the cabbage, which brought me down on the flags all of a heap .
在黑暗中，我踩到了一片白菜，一下子摔在地上。

5 . It is hard to exaggerate the importance to Korean life of kimchi, which is usually made of fermented cabbage.
很难夸大泡菜对于韩国人生活的重要性，而泡菜通常是由洋白菜发酵后制成的。