首页英语词典stuffstuff的意思

stuff

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近义词material substance matter

n. 东西；材料；填充物；素材资料
vt. 塞满；填塞；让吃饱
vi. 吃得过多

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词态变化

第三人称单数: stuffs;过去式: stuffed;过去分词: stuffed;现在分词: stuffing;

中文词源

stuff 填满，塞满，东西，物品，原料，材料

来自中古英语 stuffen, 装备，提供，来自古法语 estoffer, 提供，塞满，填塞，来自 Proto-Germanic*stuppona, 塞满，装满，堵塞，可能来自 PIE*steu, 推，击，打，词源同 stiff,stop,steep.引申诸相关词义。

英英释意

1. the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object;: "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"

2. miscellaneous unspecified objects;: "the trunk was full of stuff"

3. informal terms for personal possessions;: "did you take all your clobber?"

4. senseless talk;: "don't give me that stuff"

5. unspecified qualities required to do or be something;: "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"

6. information in some unspecified form;: "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"

7. a critically important or characteristic component;: "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"

英文词源

stuff: stuff: [14] Stuff is ultimately the same word as stop. It comes via Old French estoffer and prehistoric Germanic *stopfōn, earlier *stoppōn (source of English stop), from late Latin stuppāre ‘plug, stop up’. This originally denoted literally ‘stop up a hole with a plug of coarse fibres’, for it was derived from Latin stuppa ‘coarse fibres, tow’, a borrowing from Greek stúppē. The noun stuff comes from Old French estoffe ‘provisions’, a derivative of estoffer.
=> stop
stuff (n.): early 14c., "quilted material worn under chain mail," from Old French estoffe "quilted material, furniture, provisions" (Modern French étoffe), from estoffer "to equip or stock," which according to French sources is from Old High German stopfon "to plug, stuff," or from a related Frankish word (see stop (v.)), but OED has "strong objections" to this.

Sense extended to material for working with in various trades (c. 1400), then "matter of an unspecified kind" (1570s). Meaning "narcotic, dope, drug" is attested from 1929. To know (one's) stuff "have a grasp on a subject" is recorded from 1927.
stuff (v.): mid-14c., "furnish with" (goods, provisions, etc.), also "reinforce" (troops), from Old French estofer "pad, upholster, fit out" (Modern French étoffer), from estoffe, and probably also in part from stuff (n.).

From c. 1400 as "fill, cram full; fill (the belly) with food or drink, gorge;" from early 15c. as "to clog" (the sinuses, etc.); from late 14c. as "fill (a mattress, etc.) with padding, line with padding;" also in the cookery sense, in reference to filing the interior of a pastry or the cavity of a fowl or beast. The ballot-box sense is attested from 1854, American English; in expressions of contempt and suggestive of bodily orifices, it dates from 1952.

同义词辨析

material, matter, substance, stuff

这些名词均含"物质，东西"之意。

material：通常指组成客观存在物的部分或其原料。

matter：通常指构成实物的物质，与精神相对立。在科学上，指占有空间，并能以某种方式被感官觉察的一切东西。

substance：多指某一种形式的物质，既可指元素也可指化合物。

stuff：多用于日常生活中，非正式用词。常指构成整体的所有部分、物体或项目。有时指劣等材料，含轻蔑意味。

考试真题

After graduating with a degree in business and accounting, she joined a public accounting firm, married, bought a house, put lots of stuff in it, and had a baby.

Since industrialization, maintaining such a slow cultural metabolism has been much harder, with the long midday meal shrinking to whatever could be stuffed into a lunch bucket or bought at a food stand.

Rewards do not have to be stuff, Cornetti says.

Prohibition of models eating non-food stuff.

But how probable is it that someone will successfully jam their way into your home and steal your stuff?Let's imagine that you live in a small home with a wireless security setup that offers a functional anti-jamming system.

Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk ( ' , 垃圾 ) and should really carry warning labels? It's not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by.

Bell peppers stuffed with couscous, alongside ratatouille, is a very popular dish.

I asked him about the new sign, and he said, "You kids are stealing too much stuff.

"Rewards do not have to be stuff," Cornetti says.

But how probable is it that someone will successfully jam their way into your home and steal your stuff?

Canadian scientists have found a worrisome new example of the power that birds have to spread stuff around.

Most of them remind me of the stuff my nephew brings home from the kindergarten.

A lot of cool stuff will be available online tomorrow.

I see you've got lots of healthy stuff.

Measurements of density and composition implied that Venus originally formed out of basically the same stuff as Earth.

Sometimes the old stuff just works better or more efficiently.

with so much stuff in space, and a limited area around our planet, the government wants to reduce the chances of a collision.

In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

The problem with being a grown up is that there's an awful lot of serious stuff to deal with - work, mortgage payments, figuring out what to cook for dinner.

We stalk around thinking we're hot stuff.

词组搭配

and stuff

(informal)said in vague reference to additional things of a similar nature to those specified

(非正式)类似，诸如此类

all that running and swimming and stuff.
所有那些跑步、游泳之类的事。

bit of stuff

all that running and swimming and stuff.
所有那些跑步、游泳之类的事。

get stuffed

[usu. in imperative](Brit. informal)said in anger to tell someone to go away or as an expression of contempt

(英，非正式)[生气或表示轻视]滚开，去你的

not give a stuff

(Brit. informal)said to express indifference or contempt

(英，非正式)[表示漠不关心或轻视]毫不在乎，根本不当回事

I couldn't give a stuff what they think.
我才不在乎他们怎么想呢。

stuff it

(Brit. informal)said to express indifference, resignation, or rejection

(英，非正式)[表示冷漠、无奈或拒绝]够了！别说了！

Stuff it, I'm 61, what do I care?.
别说了，我都61岁了，有什么可在乎的？。

that's the stuff

(Brit. informal)said in approval of what has just been done or said

(英，非正式)[表示赞扬]这就对了！好啊！

stuff it&I{【粗俗用语】} &I{【俚语】}

Used as an intensive to express extreme anger, frustration, or disgust.

用作加强语意词以表达极端之愤怒、懊恼或反感

stuff (one's) face&I{【俚语】}

To eat greedily.

贪婪地吃

实用场景例句

What's all that sticky stuff on the carpet?: 地毯上那黏乎乎的都是什么玩意儿？

The chairs were covered in some sort of plastic stuff.: 椅子都包了一种塑料膜。

This wine is good stuff.: 这酒不错。

(disapproving)I don't know how you can eat that stuff!: 我不明白你怎么能吃那种东西！

They sell stationery and stuff (like that) .: 他们出售文具之类的东西。

Where's all my stuff (= my possessions) ?: 我那些东西都哪儿去了？

(disapproving)Could you move all that stuff off the table?: 请你把桌上那些玩意儿全都拿走好不好？

I've got loads of stuff to do today.: 我今天有好多事儿要做。

I like reading and stuff .: 我喜欢看书什么的。

The band did some great stuff on their first album.: 这支乐队首张专辑有几支很棒的曲子。

This is all good stuff . Well done!: 这一切都不错，干得漂亮！

What's all this ‘Mrs Smith ’ stuff? Call me Anna.: 哪来的什么“史密斯夫人”那一套？叫我安娜好了。

I don't believe in all that stuff about ghosts.: 我不信什么鬼呀魂呀的。

I'd like some coffee, and I don't object to the powdered stuff if it's all you've got...: 我想来点咖啡，如果你只有速溶的那种也可以。

I don't know anything about this antique stuff...: 我对于这种古玩物件一无所知。

I stuffed my hands in my pockets...: 我把手插进口袋里。

He stuffed the newspapers into a litter bin and headed down the street...: 他把报纸塞进了垃圾箱，然后沿街往前走了。

He grabbed my purse, opened it and stuffed it full, then gave it back to me...: 他抢过我的钱包，打开并塞满钱，然后还给了我。

He still stood behind his cash register stuffing his mouth with popcorn.: 他仍站在收银机后，嘴里塞满了爆米花。

I could stuff myself with ten chocolate bars and half an hour later eat a big meal.: 我可以一口气吃10块巧克力，半小时后再吃一顿大餐。

Will you stuff the turkey and shove it in the oven for me?: 你能帮我给火鸡填上料然后放进烤箱里吗？

...stuffed tomatoes.: 酿西红柿

A pike weighing 29 lb 8 oz taken in 1878 was stuffed and is on display at the estate office...: 一条 1878 年捕获的重 29 磅 8 盎司的梭子鱼被制成标本陈列在庄园管理处。

He didn't much care for the stuffed animal heads that hung on the walls.: 他不是很喜欢墙上挂的那些动物头颅标本。

The idea that we can be whatever we want has become the stuff of television commercials.: 每个人皆无所不能，这一理念已经成为电视广告的精髓。

Ultimately my attitude was: stuff them...: 我最终的态度是：去他们的。

Stuff your money. We don't want a handout.: 收起你的钱，我们不需要施舍。

Once I get on the pitch I know I can do my stuff...: 我一上场就知道是我大显身手的时候了。

All that was left was to plant the roses and wait for nature to do her stuff.: 剩下的就只是栽上玫瑰，然后等大自然施展她的神奇魔力。

These chaps know their stuff after seven years of war.: 7年的战争过后，这些家伙都成了作战行家。