fodder
英 ['fɒdə]
美 ['fɑdɚ]
助記提示
food食物
feed進食
fodder草料,飼料。
中文詞源
fodder 飼料，炮灰來自food, 食物。該物用做動物的飼料，草料。
英文詞源
- fodder
- fodder: see food
- fodder (n.)
- Old English fodder "food," especially "hay, straw, or other bulk food for cattle," from Proto-Germanic *fodram (cognates: Old Norse foðr, Middle Dutch voeder, Old High German fuotar, German Futter), from PIE *pa-trom, suffixed form of *pa- "to feed" (see food).
雙語例句
- 1. The alfalfa plant is widely used as animal fodder.
- 苜蓿科植物廣泛用作動物飼料。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Old movies were the cheapest broadcast fodder.
- 老電影是最廉價的播放素材。
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- 3. The conscripts were treated as cannon fodder.
- 應征入伍者被當做炮灰。
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- 4. Many cynical managers see employees as cannon fodder.
- 許多自私自利的經理視員工如草芥。
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- 5. This story will be more fodder for the gossip columnists.
- 這個傳聞會是閑談專欄作家的又一素材。
來自《權威詞典》