音标:['bʌtə] ;
n.
黄油,(旧称)白脱油
似黄油的东西;尤指:
脂,酱,泥(如果泥、菜泥等)
植物脂,黄油代用品
脂样物质(如金属的氯化物)
[口语]谄媚,恭维(话),奉承(话),巴结(话);甜言蜜语
vt.
涂黄油(或黄油状物)于…上,用黄油涂抹;把黄油放入,在…中加入黄油(或黄油状物);用黄油烹调:
He buttered a piece of bread for himself.
他为自己把一片面包涂上黄油。
涂粘着物(如在砖层中抹灰浆)
[口语]讨好,巴结,奉承,谄媚(up):
you'll have to butter her up a bit before she'll agree.
在她同意之前你只好奉承她一点。
短语:
as fat as butter
肥肥胖胖的
Butter to butter is no relish.
[谚语]千篇一律的东西令人生厌。
Fair (或 Fine) words butter no parsnips.
[谚语]花言巧语是不中用的。
guns and butter
大炮和黄油政策
know on which side one's bread is buttered
见 bread
lay the butter on
说奉承话,说恭维话[亦作 lay on the butter]
(look as if) butter would not melt in one's mouth
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a complete range of
administrative-command
Aharonov-Bohm effect
Ajuga linearifolia
alcees
amplitide-modulated telephony
andMe
arcuato-emarginate
bactrocera (zeugodacus) lipsanus
bando
barotropic wave
Bhima
bit drop-out
bushwillow
catopleite
cell-signaling
change path of operation
citizen's charter
clan dispute
come up with the rations
convergent fan cleavage
crasse
creaming off
cyathophylloid
didelphiss
doridens
EC Treaty
electable
ERC-55
even then
falling all over
financial-service
fiskes
fittes
forming defect
gareland
geared turbine
generally accepted
get afoot
gold mix
Grewia angustisepala
grosh
haerle
hybrid communication network
in deed as well as in name
inelude
Jarānwāla
Kosum Phisai
like the stars in multitude
makes something of oneself
menkin
mookish
musculus scalenus
non-self-supporting tank
nonadecanoic acid
on the down low
outage state
Pacific mackerel
Payton
pernicity
perpendiculars
persilicic rock
persistent accelerator
prinipal component of stress
prismognathus piluensis
pump performance characteristic
querens
radio-frequency capture
ragstones
re-vision
regenerant utilization
regulating course
regulating system
remittances and savings statistics
safety procedure
sheep-dung stools
Sihuas, R.
sirak
skew invariant
skipped out on
speech analyser
start of text character
stony uterine mass
strike dead
superstable
sweep check
taking rate
tangential beam
taxonomic botany
terrigenous deposit
There you are!
total number of turns
transient total amnesia
Trekanten
true bearing unit
tulkas
Tyumen'
Vergaville
Viola pubescens
voidable policies
wet felt
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