graze

英語

詞源

源自古英語 grasian (「吃草」)，源自græs (「草」)。

發音

國際音標^(幫助): /ɡɹeɪz/
（美國）音頻： (檔案)
同音詞：grays, greys
韻部：-eɪz

名詞

graze (複數 grazes)

擦傷，刮擦
磨損，（表皮的）擦傷
吃草
- 1904, Empire Review, 第 6 卷，第 188 頁:
  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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動詞

graze (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 grazes，現在分詞 grazing，一般過去時及過去分詞 grazed)

(及物) 給...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...處吃草
Cattle graze in the meadows.
牛在牧場上吃草。
- Template:RQ:Pope Works 1751
- 1993, John Montroll, Origami Inside-Out，第 41 頁:
  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...吃草時照顧其
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice
(不及物) 吃零食，（不在餐點時）[隨便]]吃點
同類詞：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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不結賬偷吃
- 1992, Shoplifting，第 18 頁:
  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 頁:
  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
子彈擦過牆壁
- Template:RQ:Melville Moby-Dick
(及物) 擦傷
to graze one's knee
擦破膝蓋
(不及物) 長出（供動物吃的）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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衍生詞彙

異序詞

Garzê, Zager, gazer

荷蘭語

動詞

graze

(虛擬語氣) grazen 的單數現在時虛擬式