forage
英['fɒrɪdʒ]
美['fɔrɪdʒ]
- n. 饲料；草料；搜索
- vi. 搜寻粮草；搜寻
词态变化
复数: forages;第三人称单数: forages;过去式: foraged;过去分词: foraged;现在分词: foraging;
助记提示
1. food, feed => fodder, foster => *for- => forage, foray.
2. forage <====> foray.
3. 谐音“佛掠鸡”。
4. for / f- (food) + orange => forage: 找到橘子作为食物吃.
5. for + age => forage: 为了使自己随着年龄健康地长大，要不断的觅食.
中文词源
forage 觅食
来自Proto-Germanic*fodram, 食物，觅食，词源同food, fodder.
英文词源
- 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.
双语例句
- 1. They were forced to forage for clothing and fuel.
- 他们不得不去寻找衣服和燃料。
来自辞典例句
- 2. Now the nutritive value of the forage is reduced.
- 此时牧草的营养价值也下降了.
来自辞典例句
- 3. The Hodotermitidae are a semi - desert species known as forage bants.
- 草白蚁科常称为草料蚁,是一种半沙漠种.
来自辞典例句
- 4. Cows and sheep depends forage to feed.
- 牛和羊依靠草料喂养.
来自辞典例句
- 5. The men have been turned loose in the fields to forage like goats under the guns.
- 这些人被解散,在枪口下象山羊一样在田地里寻找可吃的东西.
来自辞典例句