potato

英 [pə'teɪtəʊ] 美 [pə'teɪtoʊ]

• n. 马铃薯；土豆

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C][U]马铃薯,土豆

   a roundish root vegetable with a thin brown or yellowish skin, that is cooked and served in many different ways

2. [C]小人物

   people of no importance

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 马铃薯
2. 土豆
3. 洋芋
4. 甘薯
5. 袜子洞
6. 一元钱
7. 头（部）
8. 难看的脸
9. 小人物
10. 马铃薯植物

英英释义

Noun:

1. an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland

2. annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The potato is a vegetable, not a fruit.
   马铃薯是一种蔬菜，不是一种水果。
2. This salad is made of apple, pear, potato and celery.
   这份色拉是由苹果、梨、土豆和芹菜做成的。
3. I like to cook dishes with potatoes.
   我喜欢用马铃薯炒菜。
4. Would you like more mashed potato?
   在来点马铃薯泥好吗？
5. Stick the fork into the potato.
   用叉子插土豆。
6. For the first time he enjoyed a roast potato.
   他第一次享受到烤土豆的味道。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. A potato consists mainly of starch.
   马铃薯的主要成分是淀粉。
2. Eastern Brazilians lean more heavily on the sweet potato.
   巴西东部人主要靠白薯为生。
3. Potato can be prepared in many ways.
   马铃薯可用许多方法烧煮。
4. Please cook the potatoes quickly with their skins on.
   请把土豆连皮快速煮一下。
5. My brother likes potatoes very much, but I don't care for them.
   我弟弟很喜欢吃土豆,可我不喜欢。
6. The children helped their parents to dig up potatoes.
   孩子们帮他们的父母挖土豆。
7. We grow a variety of crops, including cabbages, wheat and potatoes.
   我们种各种农作物,包括卷心菜、小麦和土豆。
8. He sat down and at once dived into a pile of potatoes.
   他一坐下就啃起一堆土豆来。
9. There's no meat in the house, so we'll just have to make do with potatoes.
   家里没肉,所以我们只得凑合着吃土豆了。
10. The drought makes the potato crop very small this year.
    干旱使今年的马铃薯收成很少。
11. They are small potatoes.
    他们是些微不足道的人。
12. They are big shots; we are small potatoes.
    他们是大人物,我们是小卒子。
13. The teacher thought little of the matter because he considered it a small potato.
    老师没把这事当回事,认为它无足轻重。

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

hot potato

棘手的人〔问题〕 sb/sth that it is risky to be involved with

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• bake potato 烤土豆
• boil potato 煮土豆
• dig up potato 挖土豆
• eat potato 吃土豆
• fry potato 炸土豆
• grow potato 种植土豆
• mash potato 将土豆捣成泥状
• pare potato 削土豆皮
• peel potato 削土豆皮

形容词+～

• big potato 大土豆,大人物
• chipped potato 切成薄片的土豆,〈英〉炸薯条
• clean potato 最好的事物,最适当的东西
• French-fried potato 〈美〉炸薯条
• fried potato 油炸土豆
• hot potato 棘手的问题
• mashed potato 土豆泥
• small potato 小土豆,小人物
• sweet potato 白薯,红薯,地瓜,甘薯
• underdone potato 半生不熟的土豆

～+名词

• potato patch 小块马铃薯地
• potato soup 土豆汤

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. potato的意思是“马铃薯,土豆”,可用作不可数名词,也可用作可数名词。用于比喻可作“微不足道的人或物”解。

词源解说

• ☆ 直接源自西班牙语的patata，意为土豆。

近反义词

【近义词】

• spud 马铃薯
• tater [口]=potato
• vegetable 蔬菜
• tuber 块茎
• root vegetable 根菜
• new potato 嫩马铃薯
• seed potato 种用马铃薯
• sweet potato 甘薯
• white potato 马铃薯
• murphy 马铃薯
• Irish potato 白马铃薯
• Solanum tuberosum [医] 马铃薯