bowl
bowl 英 [bəʊl] 美 [boʊl]
n. 碗;
进行时:bowling 过去式:bowled 过去分词:bowled 第三人称单数:bowls 名词复数:bowls
- A bowl is a rounded dish that holds food. Many people start the day with a bowl of cereal.
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- n. 碗;
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1. a round bowl
一个圆碗
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2. a salad/fruit/sugar, etc. bowl
色拉碗、水果盆、糖钵等
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3. a bowl of soup
一碗汤
- bowl (n.1) "round, low vessel to hold liquids or liquid food," Old English bolla "pot, cup, bowl," from Proto-Germanic *bul- "a round vessel" (source also of Old Norse bolle, Old High German bolla), from PIE root *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell." Formerly also "a large drinking cup," hence figurative use as an emblem of festivity or drunkenness. In reference to a football-stadium 1913, originally one that is bowl-shaped.
- bowl (n.2) "sphere, globe, ball," c. 1400, from Old French boule "ball," from Latin bulla "round swelling, knob" (see bull (n.2)). Meaning "large, solid ball of hard wood used in the game of bowls" is from mid-15c.
- bowl (v.) "to roll a ball on the ground," typically as part of a game or contest, mid-15c., from bowl "wooden ball" (see bowls). Specifically in cricket, "deliver the ball to be played by the batsman," from 1755; the cricket sense is source of late 19c. figurative expressions bowl over "knock down" (1849), etc. Related: Bowled; bowling.
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