wheat

英 [wiːt]

美 [wiːt]

n.  小麦(植物); 小麦(籽实)

复数：wheats　

中考高考CET4CET6考研TOEFL

Collins.2 / BNC.5619 / COCA.4479

习惯用语

n.

sort out/separate the wheat from the chaff
• 识别优劣；分清好坏；去芜存菁
  to distinguish useful or valuable people or things from ones that are not useful or have no value

牛津词典

noun

• 小麦（植物）；小麦（籽实）
  a plant grown for its grain that is used to produce the flour for bread, cakes, pasta , etc.; the grain of this plant
  1. wheat flour
     小麦制的面粉

柯林斯词典

• 种植小麦，玉米或其他农作物的农民。 → see:...farmers growing wheat, corn, or other crops.

英英释义

noun

• a variable yellow tint
  Synonym:pale yellowstraw
• grains of common wheat
  Synonym:wheat berry
• annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains

双语例句

• The wheat is tillering.
  麦子正在分蘖。
• I take wheat and yeast tablets daily to purify the blood
  我每天服用干酵母片以净化血液。
• They have been bartering wheat for cotton and timber
  他们一直用小麦交换棉花和木材。
• Sift out the wheat from the chaff.
  把小麦的壳筛出来。
• The sack of wheat has spilled.
  麦包散了。
• This year's yield of wheat is higher than ever before.
  今年小麦产量高于往年。
• Aid officials said that the first emergency food rations of wheat and oil were handed out here last month
  救助官员说第一批紧急援助的小麦和食用油是上月发放到这里的。
• They had been forced to uproot their vines and plant wheat.
  他们已被迫将葡萄藤连根拔除，改种小麦。
• It would pay farmers to plough up the scrub and plant wheat.
  它会出钱雇农民开垦这块低矮丛林来种植麦子。
• The aphid is now laying waste to the wheat and barley fields.
  蚜虫正在毁掉一片片的小麦和大麦田地。