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edible

英 ['edɪb(ə)l] 美 ['ɛdəbl]

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解释

adj. 可食用的
n. 食品；食物

※ 提供单词"edible"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

中文词源

edible 可食的

来自词根ed, 吃，词源同eat.

英文词源

edible (adj.): 1590s, from Late Latin edibilis "eatable," from Latin edere "to eat," from PIE root *ed- "to eat" (cognates: Sanskrit admi "I eat;" Greek edo "I eat;" Lithuanian edu "I eat;" Hittite edmi "I eat," adanna "food;" Old Irish ithim "I eat;" Gothic itan, Old Swedish and Old English etan, Old High German essan "to eat;" Avestan ad- "to eat;" Armenian utem "I eat;" Old Church Slavonic jasti "to eat," Russian jest "to eat").

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例句和用法

1. The food at the hotel was barely edible.: 这家旅馆的食物简直不能入口。

2. Edible wild herbs kept us from dying of starvation.: 我们靠着野菜才没被饿死.

3. This kind of mushroom is edible, but that kind is not.: 这种蘑菇吃得, 那种吃不得.

4. Take some edible food when you go there.: 你去那儿时带些吃的.

5. Peel off the blackened skin, flatten the pepper out and trim it into edible pieces.: 把发黑的皮削掉，把甜椒压扁，切成可以入口的小块。