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fodder

英 ['fɒdə] 美 ['fɑdɚ]

解释

n. 饲料；素材
vt. 喂

※ 提供单词"fodder"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

fodder 饲料，炮灰

来自food, 食物。该物用做动物的饲料，草料。

英文词源

fodder: fodder: see food
fodder (n.): Old English fodder "food," especially "hay, straw, or other bulk food for cattle," from Proto-Germanic *fodram (cognates: Old Norse foðr, Middle Dutch voeder, Old High German fuotar, German Futter), from PIE *pa-trom, suffixed form of *pa- "to feed" (see food).

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例句和用法

1. The alfalfa plant is widely used as animal fodder.: 苜蓿科植物广泛用作动物饲料。

2. Old movies were the cheapest broadcast fodder.: 老电影是最廉价的播放素材。

3. The conscripts were treated as cannon fodder.: 应征入伍者被当做炮灰。

4. Many cynical managers see employees as cannon fodder.: 许多自私自利的经理视员工如草芥。

5. This story will be more fodder for the gossip columnists.: 这个传闻会是闲谈专栏作家的又一素材。