concoct
英语
编辑词源
编辑源自拉丁語 concoctiō (“消化”),源自con- (“一起”)和coquō (“烹煮”)。
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编辑concoct (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 concocts,現在分詞 concocting,一般過去時及過去分詞 concocted)
- 混合调制,混合调配
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], 章號 IX, 出自 Francesca Carrara. […], 第 II 卷, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC,第 103 頁:
- Their only regret was, that Mademoiselle Carrara would taste none of the conserves and the pastry they were so busily concocting.
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- 2007, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Well of Tears: Book Two of The Crowthistle Chronicles, Tor Books, →ISBN:
- Pecan shells make good fuel, and they are used by leather tanners to concoct their foul-smelling compounds, and sometimes we mix them with charcoal in hand-soap to make a really good scrubbing agent
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- 2014, Lisa Howard, Healthier Gluten-Free, Fair Winds Press (MA) (ISBN 9781592335985), page 171:
- The twelve include Jill (she used to be a chicken-and-potatoes girl, but now she's willing to try whatever I concoct), […]
- (比喻義) 谋划,策划,图谋;捏造
- 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], 章號 XXVI, 出自 Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], 第 II 卷, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC,第 34 頁:
- On the other hand, the finest argument ever concocted, the concentrated wisdom drawn from men and books, will fail to charm, like the hilarity of a dance, or the splendour of a gala, the young, gay girl, whose spirits are exuberant, and whose heart is untouched by care, and who, a dozen years afterwards, would, in calm cheerfulness, listen lovingly, and examine carefully, the pleaded reasons offered to her judgment.
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- (棄用) 消化
- 1703, Thomas Gibson, The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized, page 297:
- For the parts of an Embryo are nourished and encreased before it hath a Stomach to concoct any thing, and yet in a perfect Fœtus none can deny that the Stomach does concoct […]
- 1703, Thomas Gibson, The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized, page 297: