beef
- IPA[biːf]
英式
- the flesh of a cow, bull, or ox, used as food；a cow, bull, or ox fattened for its meat
- complain
noun: beef, plural noun: beeves
- 釋義
- 片語
名詞
- 1. the flesh of a cow, bull, or ox, used as food there was the smell of roast beef beef cattle
- ▪ a cow, bull, or ox fattened for its meat a beef sent to the abattoir
- 2. informal flesh with well-developed muscle he needs a little more beef on his bones 同義詞
- ▪ strength or power he was brought in to give the team more beef
- ▪ the substance of a matter it's more a sketch than a policy—where's the beef?
- 3. informal a complaint or grievance he has a beef with education: it doesn't teach the basics of investing 同義詞
- 4. US informal a criminal charge getting caught with pot in the sixties was a narco beef
動詞
- 1. informal complain he was beefing about how the recession was killing the business
片語
