milk

• n. 牛奶；乳状物
• vt. 榨取；挤…的奶
• vi. 挤奶
• n. (Milk)人名；(英)米尔克

来自PIE*melg,挤奶，奶，词源同emulsion.可能来自PIE*mel,磨，磨软，软的，词源同mild,mill.由磨引申词义抚摸，刮，挤奶，奶。

1. a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings

2. produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young

3. any of several nutritive milklike liquids

milk

milk: [OE] Far back into prehistory, milk traces its ancestry to an Indo-European base *melg-, which denoted ‘wiping’ or ‘stroking’. The way of obtaining milk from animals is to pull one’s hand down their teats, and so *melg- came in due course to be used for ‘milk’. It passed into Germanic as *melk-, which formed the basis of the noun *meluks, and this over the centuries has become German milch, Dutch and Danish melk, Swedish mjölk, and English milk.

The now virtually obsolete adjective milch ‘giving milk’ [OE] (as in milch cow) goes back to a Germanic derivative of *meluks. Another derivative of Indo-European *melgwas the Latin verb mulgēre ‘milk’, which has given English emulsion and promulgate.
=> emulsion, promulgate

milk (n.)

Old English meoluc (West Saxon), milc (Anglian), from Proto-Germanic *meluks "milk" (cognates: Old Norse mjolk, Old Frisian melok, Old Saxon miluk, Dutch melk, Old High German miluh, German Milch, Gothic miluks), from *melk- "to milk," from PIE root *melg- "to wipe, to rub off," also "to stroke; to milk," in reference to the hand motion involved in milking an animal (cognates: Greek amelgein, Latin mulgere, Old Church Slavonic mlesti, Lithuanian melžu "to milk," Old Irish melg "milk," Sanskrit marjati "wipes off"). Old Church Slavonic noun meleko (Russian moloko, Czech mleko) is considered to be adopted from Germanic.

Of milk-like plant juices from late 14c. Milk chocolate is first recorded 1723; milk shake is first recorded 1889, for a variety of creations, but the modern version is only from the 1930s. Milk tooth (1727) uses the word in its figurative sense "period of infancy," attested from 17c. To cry over spilt milk is first attested 1836 in writing of Canadian humorist Thomas C. Haliburton. Milk and honey is from the Old Testament phrase describing the richness of the Promised Land (Num. xvi:13, Old English meolc and hunie). Milk of human kindness is from "Macbeth" (1605).

milk (v.)

Old English melcan, milcian, meolcian "to milk, give milk, suckle," from Proto-Germanic *melk- "to milk" (cognates: Dutch melken, Old High German melchan, German melken), from PIE root *melg- (see milk (n.)). Figurative sense of "exploit for profit" is first found 1520s. Related: Milked; milking.

The kind of shopping—where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Instead, the company said Tuesday, its employees will ask parents whether they prefer such options as milk or sliced apples before assembling the meals.

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Farmers going grass-fed are not affected by the ever-changing milk prices of the global market.

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Grass-fed milk can fetch up to 2.5 times the price of conventional milk.

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In addition to supplying milk from their own 85-head herd, they began to help other farmers in the area convent from conventional to certified organic and grass-fed in order to enter the Maple Hill supply chain.

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In the grass fed system, farmers are also not subject to the wildly fluctuating milk prices of the international commodity market.

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Joseph's top priority became getting his hands on enough grass-fed milk to keep customers satisfied, since his own 64-cow herd wasn't going to suffice.

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Maple Hill signs a contract pledging to buy the farmer's milk at a guaranteed base price, plus quality premiums and incentives for higher protein, butter fat and other solids.

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A warm drink of milk before bed has long been the best choice for those wanting a good night's sleep.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

According to the text, the mice fed with daytime milk were more anxious.

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But now a study has found it really does help people nod off—if it is milked from a cow at night.

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He sold or exchanged some of the milk in the towns nearby for other food and made cheese and butter for the family with what was left.

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It exists in milk in great amount.

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Luckily, he also had a cow which produced milk every day.

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Milk is also sugar-free and additive-free with nutritionists recommending skimmed milk as the best choice before bed as it is the least fattening.

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Night milk quickened the start of sleep and caused the mice to sleep longer.

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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.

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Previous studies have also indicated that milk can be excellent for helping sleep because of the calcium content, which helps people to relax.

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Researchers have discovered that "night milk" contains more melatonin, which has been proven to help people feel sleepy and reduce anxiety.

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Take your family pictures and deliver milk.

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Tea tastes much better with milk.

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The purpose of a pony drift is to gather them up so their health can be checked, the baby ones can be stooped from feeding on their mother's milk, and those who've gone beyond their limited area can be returned to their correct area.

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The study, by researchers from seoul, south korea, involved mice being fed with dried milk powder made from cows milked both during the day and at night.

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The tasters generally taste teas with milk, since that is how the majority of British people drink their tea.

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Those given night milk, which contained 10 times the amount of melatonin, were less active and less anxious than those fed with the milk collected during daytime, according to the study published in the Journal of Medicinal Food.

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While the effect of cows milk harvested at different time has not been tested on humans up to now, taking melatonin drugs has been suggested to those who are struggling to fall asleep at night.

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a pint/litre of milk

一品脱 / 一升奶

牛津词典

a bottle/carton of milk

一瓶 / 一纸盒奶

牛津词典

fresh/dried/powdered milk

鲜奶；奶粉

牛津词典

Do you take milk in your tea?

你茶里加奶吗？

牛津词典

milk products (= butter, cheese, etc.)

乳制品

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breast milk

母乳

牛津词典

She's milked a small fortune from the company over the years.

许多年来她揩公司的油，发了一笔小财。

牛津词典

She's milked the company of a small fortune.

她揩公司的油，发了一笔小财。

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I know he's had a hard time lately, but he's certainly milking it for all it's worth (= using it as an excuse to do things that people would normally object to) .

我知道他最近的日子不好过，但他却以此为借口为所欲为。

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He popped out to buy a pint of milk.

他匆匆出门去买一品脱牛奶。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...basic foods such as meat, bread and milk.

诸如肉、面包和牛奶之类的主食

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Farm-workers milked cows by hand.

农场工人用手挤牛奶。

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Milk from the mother's breast is a perfect food for the human baby.

母乳是宝宝的最佳食品。

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...sales of cleansing milks, creams and gels.

洗面奶、润肤膏和啫喱的销量

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A few people tried to milk the insurance companies...

一些人试图从保险公司敲一笔钱。

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The callous couple milked money from a hospital charity to fund a lavish lifestyle.

为了过上奢靡的生活，这对冷漠无情的夫妇竟然贪污医院的慈善基金。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Fryer dismisses the report as 'milk and water'.

弗赖尔认为这篇报告里的观点不痛不痒，不值一读。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Add milk to produce a soft dropping consistency.

加牛奶至一种柔滑可滴的黏稠度.

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Pour milk out of the bottle into the glass.

把牛奶从瓶子里倒到玻璃杯里去.

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A skin has formed on the milk.

牛奶上面结了一层皮.

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The milk has curdled.

牛奶凝结了.

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She skimmed the milk of its cream.

她撇去牛奶上的奶油.

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I put the milk and meat in the fridge.

我把牛奶和肉放在冰箱里.

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Hot weather multiplied the bacteria in milk rapidly.

炎热的天气使牛奶中的细菌迅速繁殖.

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Lack of refrigeration turned the milk.

牛奶没有冷藏,变酸了.

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