squash
squash 英 [skwɒʃ] 美 [skwɑʃ]
vt. 挤压；挤进；粉碎 n. 拥挤，果汁饮料
进行时:squashing 过去式:squashed 过去分词:squashed 第三人称单数:squashes 名词复数:squashes
- A squash is the edible fruit of squash plant, but it's considered a vegetable in the kitchen, like peppers and tomatoes. As a verb, squash means to compress or mash — like the way your picky little sister might squash the roasted squash on her plate with a fork.
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- vt. 挤压；挤进；粉碎
- n. 拥挤，果汁饮料
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1. The tomatoes at the bottom of the bag had been squashed.
袋底的西红柿给压烂了。
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2. Squash your cans flat before recycling.
把饮料罐压扁了再送去回收。
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3. How many people are they going to try and squash into this bus?
他们打算把多少人塞进这辆公共汽车？
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4. to squash a plan/an idea/a revolt
使计划落空；否定想法；镇压反叛
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5. The statement was an attempt to squash the rumours.
这份声明旨在辟谣。
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6. to play squash
打壁球
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7. a glass of orange/lemon squash
一杯橙汁╱柠檬汁
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8. Two orange squashes, please.
请来两杯橙汁。
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9. It's a real squash with six of us in the car.
我们六个人坐在这辆车上，可真够挤的。
- squash (n.1) gourd fruit, 1640s, shortened borrowing from Narraganset (Algonquian) askutasquash, literally "the things that may be eaten raw," from askut "green, raw, uncooked" + asquash "eaten," in which the -ash is a plural affix (compare succotash).
- squash (n.2) 1610s, "act of squashing," from squash (v.). The racket game called by that name 1899; earlier (1886) it was the name of the soft rubber ball used in it.
- squash (v.) "to crush, squeeze," early 14c., squachen, from Old French esquasser, escasser "to crush, shatter, destroy, break," from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex "out" (see ex-) + quassare "to shatter" (see quash "to crush"). Related: Squashed; squashing.
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