graze

• vt. 放牧；擦伤
• vi. 吃草；擦伤
• n. 放牧；轻擦

来自grass, 草。字母s,z 音变。

1. a superficial abrasion

2. the act of grazing

graze

graze: [OE] There is no difficulty about the etymology of graze ‘feed on grass’: it was formed in Old English times as a derivative of the noun græs (modern English grass). But what about graze in the sense ‘scrape lightly’, first recorded in the 17th century? In the absence of any convincing alternative candidates, it is usually taken to be simply a special use of graze ‘feed on grass’, in the sense ‘remove grass close to the ground’, as some animals do in grazing – like a ‘close shave’, in fact.
=> grass

graze (v.1)

"to feed on grass," Old English grasian, from græs "grass" (see grass). Compare Middle Dutch, Middle High German grasen, Dutch grazen, German grasen. Transitive sense from 1560s. Figurative use by 1570s. Related: Grazed; grazing.

graze (v.2)

"to touch lightly in passing," c. 1600, perhaps a transferred sense from graze (v.1) via a notion of cropping grass right down to the ground (compare German grasen "to feed on grass," used in military sense in reference to cannonballs that rebound off the ground). Related: Grazed; grazing. As a noun from 1690s, "an act of grazing."

nourish, feed, graze

这些动词均含"提供所需食物，喂养"之意。

nourish： 指提供生长、健康或维持生存所必需的食物或养料，尤指用营养品促进生长。

feed： 普通用词，含义广泛。既可指给人或动物提供食物，又可指给植物以养料或为机器等加燃料等。

graze： 侧重指用正在生长的青草喂养牲畜。

Families graze on high-cholesterol take-aways and microwaved readymeals.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Families graze on high-cholesterol take-aways and microwaved ready-meals.

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

Reading magazines like The Stockman Grass Farmer and Graze, he got hooked on the idea of grass-fed agriculture.

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

Robots are currently under a two-year trial in Wales which will train "farmbots" to herd, monitor the health of livestock, and make sure there is enough pasture for them to graze on.

2018年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

Adam walked away from the crash with just cuts and grazes .

亚当在撞车事故中平安脱险，只受了点划伤和擦伤。

牛津词典

The bullet grazed his cheek.

子弹从他的脸颊擦过。

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I fell and grazed my knee.

我摔了一跤擦伤了膝盖。

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The land is used by local people to graze their animals.

这块地当地人用来放牧。

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The field had been grazed by sheep.

这块地羊已经啃过了。

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Parents have been warned against allowing children to graze on snacks (= to keep eating them, instead of real meals) .

家长得到忠告不要让孩子乱吃零食。

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There were cows grazing beside the river.

有些牛在河边吃草。

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Wright managed a shot but it grazed the near post and rolled harmlessly across the goal.

赖特勉强起脚射门，但是球擦着近门柱有惊无险地偏出了球门。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

A bullet had grazed his arm...

一颗子弹擦过他的手臂。

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I had grazed my knees a little.

我的膝盖擦破了一点皮。

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The hills have been grazed by sheep because they were too steep to be ploughed...

这几座山过于陡峭，不适于耕种，所以就用来牧羊了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Five cows graze serenely around a massive oak...

5头奶牛在一棵大橡树旁悠闲自在地啃着青草。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Instead of harvesting wheat at a loss, they plan to graze cattle on their fields.

他们不再去亏本种小麦了, 而是打算在自己田里牧牛.

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When we skip breakfast, especially in the teenage years, then kids tend to snack and graze.

我们十多岁的时候不吃早饭, 于是就边吃零食边放牧.

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We used to graze on the fields where the com is now.

过去我们经常在现在种着粮食的田里放牧.

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The sheep usually graze in the grass land.

羊通常在草地吃草.

辞典例句

In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.

到那时你的牲畜,必在宽阔的草场吃草.

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" Keep my three camels, sir , and take the whole lot outside the pass to graze. "

“ 老者,留下我的三匹, 凑成一把儿到口外去 放青.

汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子

His knee stung from the graze.

他的膝盖擦伤后十分疼痛.

辞典例句

We graze cattle on our fields.

我们在自己田里牧牛.

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We can't graze the cattle till summer.

不到夏天我们不能放牧.

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She helps her mother to put the cattle out to graze every day.

她每天都要帮妈妈放青.

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Nothing serious. Just a graze.

没关系, 就破了一点皮.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

A bullet from one of the pistols had graze his hip.

有一枝手枪里发出的一颗子弹擦伤了他的臀部.

辞典例句

Man enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on side of a hill.

人类喜欢彼此统一,就像牛群会以同样的方式在山坡上吃草一样.

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We will graze the field.

我们将在这块地上放牧.

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