meat

• n. 肉，肉类（食用）

来自古英语mete,食物，来自Proto-Germanic*mati,来自PIE*mad,湿的，多汁的，词源同mate,mastoid.后词义限定为肉，其原义见中古英语词grene-mete,蔬菜，即green meat.

1. the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food

2. the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone;

"black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell"

3. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;

"the gist of the prosecutor's argument"

"the heart and soul of the Republican Party"

"the nub of the story"

meat

meat: [OE] Etymologically, meat is a ‘portion of food measured out’. The word’s ultimate source is Indo-European *mat-, *met- ‘measure’, which also lies behind English measure. This produced a prehistoric Germanic *matiz, which by the time it passed into Old English as mete had broadened out in meaning from ‘portion of food’ to simply ‘food’.

That is still the meaning of its Germanic relatives, Swedish mat and Danish mad, and it survives for English meat in certain fixed contexts, such as meat and drink and What’s one man’s meat is another man’s poison, but for the most part the more specific ‘flesh used as food’, which began to emerge in the 14th century, now dominates.
=> measure

meat (n.)

Old English mete "food, item of food" (paired with drink), from Proto-Germanic *mati (cognates: Old Frisian mete, Old Saxon meti, Old Norse matr, Old High German maz, Gothic mats "food," Middle Dutch, Dutch metworst, German Mettwurst "type of sausage"), from PIE *mad-i-, from root *mad- "moist, wet," also with reference to food qualities, (cognates: Sanskrit medas- "fat" (n.), Old Irish mat "pig;" see mast (n.2)).

Narrower sense of "flesh used as food" is first attested c. 1300; similar sense evolution in French viande "meat," originally "food." In Middle English, vegetables still could be called grene-mete (15c.). Figurative sense of "essential part" is from 1901. Dark meat, white meat popularized 19c., supposedly as euphemisms for leg and breast, but earliest sources use both terms without apparent embarrassment.

The choicest parts of a turkey are the side bones, the breast, and the thigh bones. The breast and wings are called light meat; the thigh-bones and side-bones dark meat. When a person declines expressing a preference, it is polite to help to both kinds. [Lydia Maria Child, "The American Frugal Housewife," Boston, 1835]

First record of meat loaf is from 1876. Meat-market "place where one looks for sex partners" is from 1896 (meat in various sexual senses of "penis, vagina, body regarded as a sex object, prostitute" are attested from 1590s; Old English for "meat-market" was flæsccyping ('flesh-cheaping')); meat wagon "ambulance" is from 1920, American English slang, said to date from World War I (in a literal sense by 1857). Meat-grinder in the figurative sense attested by 1951. Meat-hook in colloquial transferred sense "arm" attested by 1919.

meat, flesh

这两个名词均含"肉"之意。

meat： 是肉类的总称，指食用的肉，但不包括鱼类的肉。

flesh： 主要指人体或动物身上的肌肉组织，是从生理角度着眼的。也指动物的肉食。

The more recent steep climb in grain prices partly results from the fact that more and more people want to consume meat products.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume -72- highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion ( ' , 转向) of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since that's where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

These traditional dishes include fish and chips, steak and kidney pie and large pieces of roasted meats.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

It has excellent organic farms, beautifully crafted cheeses, high-quality meats

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion of U.S. grain to t

2016年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Much of the waste is discarded rotten meat, mixed in with other human debris such as plastic bags and old toys.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The bodies of fish and other meat eaters can build up high levels of the chemicals.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Over time, the meaning of a word or an expression drifts meat used to mean any kind of food, silly used to mean, believe it or not,blessed.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Examples like meat and silly are cited to show

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

This is particularly crucial in the case of meat production, where beef uses about 50 times more water than vegetables.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

A recent study shows that meat consumption is one of the main ways that human can damage the environment, second only to the use of motor vehicles.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

So how can eating meat have a negative effect on the environment

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Another way in which meat production affects the environment is through the use of water and land.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Many people now say the benefits of switching to vegetarian diet which excludes meat and fish

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Meat consumption has an adverse effect on the environment.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Vladimir Mironov has been working for a decade to grow meat.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

Mironov, is one of only a few scientists worldwide involved in bioengineering 'cultured' meat

出自-2012年6月听力原文

It's a product he believes could help solve future global food crises resulting from shrinking amounts of land available for growing meat the old-fashioned way.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

Growth of cultured meat is also under way in the Netherlands", Mironov told Reuters in an interview, "but in the United States, it is science in search of funding and demand

出自-2012年6月听力原文

There's an unpleasant factor when people find out meat is grown in a lab.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

Mironov think of bioengineering cultured meat

出自-2012年6月听力原文

Tell Tony's mother that she eats no meat.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

"The sun provides the lowest cost of production and the cheapest meat," he says.

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

And grass-fed dairy and meat have been shown to be higher in certain nutrients and healthy fats.

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

As for the meat, Smith says his grass-fed hamburger will be priced 20-25% over the conventional alternative.

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

Founders Taylor Collins and his wife, Katie Forrest, used to be endurance athletes; now they're advocates of grass-fed meat.

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

If so, adding high protein foods like eggs and meat products to your diet can be beneficial?

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

It's in foods many of us expect, such as beef, chicken and other types of meat and dairy.

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

It's not only the study of human population, but the populations of non-human species, including viruses like influenza, the bacteria in your gut, plants that you eat, animals that you enjoy or that provide you with meat.

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Saturated fats are fats that are found principally in meat and dairy products, although some nuts and vegetable oils also contain them.

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

The low-carbohydrate food movement gave birth to such diets as the Atkins, Paleo and Keto, which advised swapping foods like bread, pasta and potatoes for vegetables, fish and meat.

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

Vegans can benefit from protein supplements since they do not eat animal-based protein sources like meat, dairy or eggs.

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

A taste for meat is actually behind the change: an important part of its corn is used to feed chickens, pigs, and cattle.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

In the 1760s, Mathurin Roze opened a series of shops that boasteda special meat soup called consomme.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

On top of that, most of the 3D food printers now are restricted to dry ingredients, because meat and milk products may easily go bad.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The menu is itAlian, with excellent meat and fresh fish, pizzas and pasta.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, lived in constant fear of meat-eating animals.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

mine is filled with leftovers, bread, stock, meat and fish.

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

(figurative,humorous)There's not much meat on her (= she is very thin).

她太瘦了。

牛津词典

a piece/slice of meat

一块 / 一片肉

牛津词典

horse meat (= from a horse)

马肉

牛津词典

dog meat (= for a dog)

喂狗的肉

牛津词典

meat-eating animals

食肉动物

牛津词典

There's not much meat on this chop.

这块猪排上没什么肉。

牛津词典

This chapter contains the real meat of the writer's argument.

这一章包含了作者的主要论点。

牛津词典

Meat and fish are relatively expensive.

肉和鱼相对来说比较贵。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...imported meat products.

进口肉制品

柯林斯高阶英语词典

What normal people considered pressure was meat and drink to him.

一般人认为有压力的事情在他看来却是快乐无比的事。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

What they want is the meat and potatoes of how we're going to improve this country and get our country moving again.

他们想知道的是我们如何改善国家、让其恢复活力的基本方法。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Meat spoils more quickly without preservatives.

不加防腐剂,肉会坏得快.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

The poor boy smelled the delicious odour of cooked meat.

这可怜的孩子闻到了香喷喷的肉味.

《简明英汉词典》

Meat doesn't keep in hot weather.

热天,肉保存不住.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

The butcher shop will bill me for the meat I bought this month.

肉店将把我这个月所买的肉钱开帐单给我.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

Meat shrinks by losing some of its fat in cooking.

肉在烹煮时,会因失去一部分脂肪而缩小.

《简明英汉词典》

He dug a fork into the meat.

他把叉子叉入肉中.

《简明英汉词典》

Meat doesn't keep in this hot weather.

这样热的天,肉搁不住.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

I want a good cut of meat.

我要一片好肉.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.

经抽查,发现肉变质了.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

A restricted import quota was set for meat products.

肉类产品设定了进口配额.

《简明英汉词典》

I put the milk and meat in the fridge.

我把牛奶和肉放在冰箱里.

《简明英汉词典》

Scandal and gossip are meat and drink to him.

各种丑闻和流言蜚语是他最感兴趣的事.

《简明英汉词典》

Some animals, As dogs and cats, eat meat.

有些动物, 如狗,猫等是食肉的.

《现代英汉综合大词典》