peanut
peanut 英 [ˈpi:nʌt] 美 [ˈpiˌnʌt]
n. 花生
名词复数:peanuts
- A peanut is a plant that grows pods containing seeds that are also known as peanuts. You may think of peanuts as nuts, but they're actually legumes.
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- n. 花生
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1. peanut or Drumstick?
花生或鼓槌？
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2. Then one February afternoon, alone in her bedroom, she reached for the textbook and her heart banged and her mouth filled with peanut butter-flavored bile.
接着在二月里一个下午，她单独呆在卧室里，够到那本教科书，她的心蹦蹦跳起来，嘴里冲满花生奶油味道的胆汁。
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3. There was no immediate response from peanut Corp., which owns the Blakely processing plant at the center of the investigation.
拥有这个处于调查中心的布拉凯利加工厂的花生公司对此没有立即反应。
- peanut (n.) 1807; see pea + nut. Earlier ground nut, ground pea (1769). The plant is native to South America; Portuguese traders took peanuts from Brazil and Peru to Africa by 1502 and it is known to have been cultivated in Chekiang Province in China by 1573, probably arriving with Portuguese sailors who made stops in Brazil en route to the Orient. Peanut butter attested by 1892; peanut brittle is from 1894. Peanut gallery "topmost rows of a theater" is from 1874, American English; peanuts "trivial sum" is from 1934.
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