straw

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /stɹɔː/    美 /stɹɔ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dried stalk of a cereal plant. countable
  2. Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions. uncountable
  3. A drinking straw. countable
  4. A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw. countable,uncommon,uncountable
  5. Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — to not care a straw
    to not care at all
  6. A straw owner. countable,uncountable
    — The Bromfield Street offices were housed in a dilapidated but heavily-insured building, owned by a straw for a wealthy downtown real estate developer, surrounded by expensive new commercial developments, and in a city renowned for arson-for-profit.
动词 v.
  1. To scatter or to spread loosely. idiomatic,transitive
  2. To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost. transitive
  3. To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography. obsolete,slang
    — It was the custom for the disaffected of those days to make known their grievances by distributing papers on doors of public buildings, and even strawing them in the high way, for the benefit of the chance passenger.
形容词 adj.
  1. Made of straw. not-comparable
    — straw hat
  2. Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw. not-comparable
  3. Imaginary, but presented as real. figuratively,not-comparable
    — A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon.

词形变化

straws plural straws present,singular,third-person strawing participle,present strawed participle,past strawed past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English straw, from Old English strēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą (“that which is strewn, straw”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread around, strew”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sträi (“straw”), West Frisian strie (“straw”), Dutch stro (“straw”), German and German Low German Stroh (“straw”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish strå (“straw”), Icelandic strá (“straw”), Walloon strin, Albanian shtrohë (“kennel”).
词源 2
From Middle English straw, from Old English strēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą (“that which is strewn, straw”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread around, strew”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sträi (“straw”), West Frisian strie (“straw”), Dutch stro (“straw”), German and German Low German Stroh (“straw”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish strå (“straw”), Icelandic strá (“straw”), Walloon strin, Albanian shtrohë (“kennel”).
词源 3
From Middle English straw, from Old English strēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą (“that which is strewn, straw”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread around, strew”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sträi (“straw”), West Frisian strie (“straw”), Dutch stro (“straw”), German and German Low German Stroh (“straw”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish strå (“straw”), Icelandic strá (“straw”), Walloon strin, Albanian shtrohë (“kennel”).
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