graze

英语

词源

源自古英语 grasian (“吃草”)，源自græs (“草”)。

发音

国际音标^(帮助): /ɡɹeɪz/
（美国）音频： (档案)
同音词：grays, greys
韵部：-eɪz

名词

graze (复数 grazes)

擦伤，刮擦
磨损，（表皮的）擦伤
吃草
- 1904, Empire Review, 第 6 卷，第 188 页:
  If it be sundown, when the herds are returning from their daily graze in the long grass of the jungle, clouds of dust will be marking their track along every approach to the village […]
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动词

graze (第三人称单数简单现在时 grazes，现在分词 grazing，一般过去时及过去分词 grazed)

(及物) 给...吃草
- Template:RQ:Swift Clergy
- 1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust:
  Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall.
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(及物、不及物) 吃草；在...处吃草
Cattle graze in the meadows.
牛在牧场上吃草。
- Template:RQ:Pope Works 1751
- 1993, John Montroll, Origami Inside-Out，第 41 页:
  The bird [Canada goose] is more often found on land than other waterfowl because of its love for seeds and grains. The long neck is well adapted for grazing.
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(及物) 在...吃草时照顾其
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice
(不及物) 吃零食，（不在餐点时）[随便]]吃点
同类词：snack
- 2008, Mohgah Elsheikh, Caroline Murphy, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome:
  Furthermore, people who take the time to sit down to proper meals find their food more satisfying than people who graze throughout the day. If you skip meals, you will inevitably end up snacking on more high-fat high-sugar foods.
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- 2018年7月24日, Anahad O’Connor, “When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health”, 出自 The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:
  Many people, however, snack and graze from roughly the time they wake up until shortly before they go to bed.
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不结账偷吃
- 1992, Shoplifting，第 18 页:
  Grazing refers to customers who consume food items before paying for them, for example, a customer bags one and a half pounds of grapes in the produce department, eats some as she continues her shopping […]
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- 2001, Labor Arbitration Information System, 第 2 卷，第 59 页:
  Had the Grievant attempted to pay for the Mylanta or actually paid for it, then she would not be guilty of grazing or shoplifting.
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(及物) 刮擦
the bullet grazed the wall
子弹擦过墙壁
- Template:RQ:Melville Moby-Dick
(及物) 擦伤
to graze one's knee
擦破膝盖
(不及物) 长出（供动物吃的）草
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, 出自 Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd版, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
  The sewers must be kept so as the water may not stay too long in the spring; for then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year.
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衍生词汇

异序词

Garzê, Zager, gazer

荷兰语

动词

graze

(虚拟语气) grazen 的单数现在时虚拟式