forage
forage 英 [ˈfɒrɪdʒ] 美 [ˈfɔrɪdʒ]
n. 饲料；草料；搜索 vi. 搜寻粮草；搜寻
进行时:foraging 过去式:foraged 过去分词:foraged 第三人称单数:forages 名词复数:forages
- To forage is to wander around looking for food. When it’s cold and snowy outside, birds may forage for food in your backyard, digging around for whatever they can find.
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- n. 饲料；草料；搜索
- vi. 搜寻粮草；搜寻
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1. The choice of the term “forage” by the psychologists – they consider ideas to be abstract resources that are, in effect, food for the brain.
心理学家之所以选择“搜寻”这个歌词语，是因为他们将理念看做是一种抽象的资源就像是大脑的食物。
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2. Tall fescue is grown widely in Africa, China and South America as turf and as a forage crop for grazing animals, but soil salinity is becoming increasingly problematic in many areas.
高羊茅草在非洲、中国和南美洲都被作为草皮或者放牧动物的饲料而被广泛种植，但是土壤盐碱化愈加成为许多地区面临的问题。
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3. Such forage fish already account for nearly a fifth of the world’s total annual catch; another fifth goes to feed pigs and poultry.
这样的饲料鱼已经差不多占每年世界总捕鱼量的五分之一；另有五分之一被用于喂猪和家禽。
- forage (n.) early 14c. (late 13c. as Anglo-Latin foragium) "food for horses and cattle, fodder," from Old French forrage "fodder; foraging; pillaging, looting" (12c., Modern French fourrage), from fuerre "hay, straw, bed of straw; forage, fodder" (Modern French feurre), from Frankish *fodr "food" or a similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *fodram (source of Old High German fuotar, Old English fodor; see fodder). Meaning "a roving in search of provisions" in English is from late 15c. Military forage cap attested by 1827.
- forage (v.) early 15c., "to plunder, pillage," from forage (n.) or from Middle French fourrager. Meaning "hunt about for" is from 1768. Related: Foraged; foraging.
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