fodder
英['fɒdə]
美['fɑdɚ]
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food食物
feed进食
fodder草料,饲料。中文词源
fodder 饲料，炮灰来自food, 食物。该物用做动物的饲料，草料。
英文词源
- 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).
双语例句
- 1. The alfalfa plant is widely used as animal fodder.
- 苜蓿科植物广泛用作动物饲料。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Old movies were the cheapest broadcast fodder.
- 老电影是最廉价的播放素材。
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- 3. The conscripts were treated as cannon fodder.
- 应征入伍者被当做炮灰。
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- 4. Many cynical managers see employees as cannon fodder.
- 许多自私自利的经理视员工如草芥。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. This story will be more fodder for the gossip columnists.
- 这个传闻会是闲谈专栏作家的又一素材。
来自《权威词典》