grain
grain 英 [greɪn] 美 [ɡren]
进行时:graining 过去式:grained 过去分词:grained 第三人称单数:grains 名词复数:grains
- When carpenters sand a piece of wood, they "go with the grain." Grain is the texture on piece of wood, which often forms long patterns that show the direction in which the tree grew.
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1. America's grain exports
美国的谷物出口
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2. a few grains of rice
几粒大米
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3. a grain of salt, a grain of sand, a grain of sugar
一粒盐╱沙╱砂糖
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4. There isn't a grain of truthin those rumours.
那些谣传一点也不可靠。
- grain (n.) early 14c., "a small, hard seed," especially of one of the cereal plants, also as a collective singular, "seed of wheat and allied grasses used as food;" also "something resembling grain; a hard particle of other substances" (salt, sand, later gunpowder, etc.), from Old French grain, grein (12c.) "seed, grain; particle, drop; berry; grain as a unit of weight," from Latin granum "seed, a grain, small kernel," from PIE root *gre-no- "grain." From late 14c. as "a species of cereal plant." In the U.S., where corn has a specialized sense, it is the general word (used of wheat, rye, oats, barley, etc.).
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