starch
starch 英 [stɑ:tʃ] 美 [stɑrtʃ]
n. 淀粉；刻板，生硬 vt. 给…上浆
进行时:starching 过去式:starched 过去分词:starched 第三人称单数:starches 名词复数:starches
- Starch is the stuff that makes your shirt collar look crisp and fresh. It's also the complex carbohydrate that potatoes and rice — foods that are called starches — have lots of.
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- n. 淀粉；刻板，生硬
- vt. 给…上浆
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1. The soup will reduce by adding some cooking starch.
汤中加些淀粉将变稠。
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2. Until recently, the assumption has been that cellulose would take over from sugar and starch as the feedstock for making biofuels.
直到最近，假定仍然是以蔗糖和淀粉作为给料并从中提取纤维素，进而生产生物燃料。
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3. “They are like little factories that spit out biofuel molecules without the need for starch or cellulose, ” explains Gibbons.
吉本斯解释：“这就像一个不需要淀粉或者纤维素而生产生物燃料分子的小型工厂。”
- starch (n.) "pasty substance used to stiffen cloth," mid-15c., back-formation from starch (v.). Figurative sense of "stiffness of manner" is recorded from 1705.
- starch (v.) late 14c., from Old English *stercan (Mercian), *stiercan (West Saxon) "make rigid," found in stercedferhð "fixed, hard, resolute" (related to stearc "stiff"), from Proto-Germanic *starkjan "to make hard" (source also of German Stärke "strength, starch," Swedish stärka "to starch"), from PIE root *ster- (1) "stiff." Related: Starched; starching.
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