gruel
gruel 英 [ˈgru:əl] 美 [ˈɡruəl]
n. 稀粥，燕麦粥
名词复数:gruels
- Gruel is a truly unpleasant food — weak and runny, consisting of oatmeal or cornmeal boiled in milk or water. It's the kind of "slop" prisoners and other inmates of institutions were historically forced to eat.
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- n. 稀粥，燕麦粥
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1. We had gruel for the breakfast.
我们早餐吃的是麦片粥.
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2. This gruel is too thin.
粥太稀了.
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3. This was thin gruel for Sadat.
这对于萨达特来说是杯水车薪.
- gruel (n.) late 12c., "meal or flour made of beans, lentils, etc.," from Old French gruel "fine meal" (Modern French gruau), a diminutive form from Frankish *grut or another Germanic source, cognate with Middle Dutch grute "coarse meal, malt;" Middle High German gruz "grain," from PIE *ghreu- "to rub, grind" (see grit (n.)). Meaning "thin porridge or soup" is late 14c.
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