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词汇 chow
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Definition of chow in English:

chow

noun tʃaʊtʃaʊ
  • 1informal mass noun Food.

    〈非正式,主北美〉食物

    Tex-Mex chow is more than melted cheese and beans
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I shoveled in that chow like a truck driver and topped it off with a cup of black coffee strong enough to go out and plow the back forty on its own.
    • Mice fed a control diet consisting of mouse chow and no additional supplementation experienced irreversible platelet damage and premature death.
    • The new soldier's chow was invented by the Combat Feeding Directorate, part of the US Army Soldier Systems Centre in Natick, Massachusetts.
    • The food was a mixture of commercial tropical fish food, commercial guinea pig chow, freeze-dried tubifex worms, finely sifted silt, and puppy vitamins.
    • Furtive peanut oil can also pop up in unexpected places, like egg rolls, bird feed and animal chow.
    • It's an urgent delivery because they're running low on chow, and for the past few weeks, they've been on reduced rations.
    • It was so pleasant I think I may take a page from Lisa's family dinner and invite friends for chow next time.
    • A proper menu is forthcoming, but there's always a small selection of chow to be had.
    • One approach to camping chow is to purchase pre-packaged, dehydrated meals.
    • Here was the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, in a combat zone on Thanksgiving day, serving chow to his soldiers.
    • But because retort pouch technology makes it easier to cook the food in the field, and the MRE style chow tastes better than anything in cans, the retort pouch MRE is taking over.
    • I fired up my backpacker's stove and cooked up my version of hobo chow with rice and kidney beans.
    • It was midday local time, hundreds of troops were tucking into well-earned chow.
    • Against a bright, cheery backdrop, choose from more than a dozen variations of this Chicano chow, most of which are presented four to a plate, open-faced on soft corn or flour tortillas.
    • After the 10 days, the rats were given a sugary, chocolate-flavoured snack as well as regular rat chow.
    • Surprisingly, the results of our study indicated that the animals nourished with standard rat chow had better results than the group supplemented with fibre and arginine.
    • The mandrills are provisioned twice a day with locally available fruit and monkey chow.
    • The Triple Rock Social Club has been serving up booze and chow on the West Bank since 1998.
    • We maintained the animals on an ad libitum diet of commercial chow and water.
    • We grabbed some chow then had a much deserved nap.
    Synonyms
    food, food and drink, fare, cooking, cuisine, sustenance, nutriment, nourishment, nutrition
  • 2A dog of a sturdy Chinese breed with a broad muzzle, a tail curled over the back, a bluish-black tongue, and typically a dense thick coat.

    中国家犬,乔乔狗

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We have a chow/shepherd mix, and the invisible fence doesn't work for her as the shock doesn't reach her skin through the mass of fur.
    • At home she lives with two chows, one politician and a Siamese cat.
    • That dog was the chow, and ever since chows have had blue tongues.
    • Lion-dogs - immense mastiffs with the solid bodies of Rottweilers but the matted coats and lion ruffs of chows - were staked outside these tents, barking themselves hoarse.
    • The real dog is worth £750 apparently, a lot for a chow.
    • A study of 178 dog-bite cases reported to Denver animal control officials in 1991 revealed that German shepherds and chow chows were the dogs most likely to bite.
    • ‘I had a chow and a cat but they both passed,’ he mournfully reveals.
    • Large, powerful dogs are frequently targeted, including Akitas, chow chows, Dalmatians, Dobermans, German Shepherds, Great Danes, pit bulls, Rottweilers as well as mixes of these breeds.
    • Coco, a mixed-breed chow, drifted alone on the powerboat for three days before being rescued in good shape.
    • Vanessa is a freelance writer in Kansas City, Missouri, whose pack, Walden, a golden retriever and Alfredo, a chow mix, were the inspiration for this article.
verb tʃaʊtʃaʊ
North American informal
  • Eat.

    〈北美,非正式〉吃

    no object he chowed down on lobster

    他大嚼龙虾。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I am much enamoured of Easter and Passover foods and find this my favorite season for chowing down.
    • She should know - as an exchange student from France to the U.S. during high school, Guiliano gained 20 pounds chowing down on McDonalds and other lynchpins of the American diet.
    • I often went dancing with my parents and their friends on Saturday nights and we'd wind up at the local truck stop or in someone's kitchen at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning chowing down.
    • He works long hours, sweats a lot and chows down on whatever dish strikes his fancy.
    • My second day at my current place of employment, I was happily chowing down on some fried chicken in the shared kitchen when the co-founder came up behind me and stared at my plate.

Origin

Late 19th century: shortened from chow chow.

Rhymes

allow, avow, Bilbao, Bissau, bough, bow, bow-wow, brow, cacao, ciao, cow, dhow, Dow, endow, Foochow, Frau, Hangzhou, Hough, how, Howe, kowtow, Lao, Liao, Macao, Macau, miaow, Mindanao, mow, now, ow, Palau, plough (US plow), pow, prow, row, scow, Slough, sough, sow, Tao, thou, vow, wow, Yangshao

Definition of chow in US English:

chow

nountʃaʊCHou
  • 1informal Food.

    〈非正式,主北美〉食物

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Mice fed a control diet consisting of mouse chow and no additional supplementation experienced irreversible platelet damage and premature death.
    • It was midday local time, hundreds of troops were tucking into well-earned chow.
    • A proper menu is forthcoming, but there's always a small selection of chow to be had.
    • Against a bright, cheery backdrop, choose from more than a dozen variations of this Chicano chow, most of which are presented four to a plate, open-faced on soft corn or flour tortillas.
    • It's an urgent delivery because they're running low on chow, and for the past few weeks, they've been on reduced rations.
    • The food was a mixture of commercial tropical fish food, commercial guinea pig chow, freeze-dried tubifex worms, finely sifted silt, and puppy vitamins.
    • I shoveled in that chow like a truck driver and topped it off with a cup of black coffee strong enough to go out and plow the back forty on its own.
    • One approach to camping chow is to purchase pre-packaged, dehydrated meals.
    • Surprisingly, the results of our study indicated that the animals nourished with standard rat chow had better results than the group supplemented with fibre and arginine.
    • Here was the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, in a combat zone on Thanksgiving day, serving chow to his soldiers.
    • But because retort pouch technology makes it easier to cook the food in the field, and the MRE style chow tastes better than anything in cans, the retort pouch MRE is taking over.
    • The Triple Rock Social Club has been serving up booze and chow on the West Bank since 1998.
    • The mandrills are provisioned twice a day with locally available fruit and monkey chow.
    • Furtive peanut oil can also pop up in unexpected places, like egg rolls, bird feed and animal chow.
    • It was so pleasant I think I may take a page from Lisa's family dinner and invite friends for chow next time.
    • The new soldier's chow was invented by the Combat Feeding Directorate, part of the US Army Soldier Systems Centre in Natick, Massachusetts.
    • I fired up my backpacker's stove and cooked up my version of hobo chow with rice and kidney beans.
    • We maintained the animals on an ad libitum diet of commercial chow and water.
    • We grabbed some chow then had a much deserved nap.
    • After the 10 days, the rats were given a sugary, chocolate-flavoured snack as well as regular rat chow.
    Synonyms
    food, food and drink, fare, cooking, cuisine, sustenance, nutriment, nourishment, nutrition
  • 2A dog of a sturdy Chinese breed with a broad muzzle, a tail curled over the back, a bluish-black tongue, and typically a dense thick coat.

    中国家犬,乔乔狗

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Vanessa is a freelance writer in Kansas City, Missouri, whose pack, Walden, a golden retriever and Alfredo, a chow mix, were the inspiration for this article.
    • A study of 178 dog-bite cases reported to Denver animal control officials in 1991 revealed that German shepherds and chow chows were the dogs most likely to bite.
    • Lion-dogs - immense mastiffs with the solid bodies of Rottweilers but the matted coats and lion ruffs of chows - were staked outside these tents, barking themselves hoarse.
    • The real dog is worth £750 apparently, a lot for a chow.
    • That dog was the chow, and ever since chows have had blue tongues.
    • Coco, a mixed-breed chow, drifted alone on the powerboat for three days before being rescued in good shape.
    • Large, powerful dogs are frequently targeted, including Akitas, chow chows, Dalmatians, Dobermans, German Shepherds, Great Danes, pit bulls, Rottweilers as well as mixes of these breeds.
    • ‘I had a chow and a cat but they both passed,’ he mournfully reveals.
    • We have a chow/shepherd mix, and the invisible fence doesn't work for her as the shock doesn't reach her skin through the mass of fur.
    • At home she lives with two chows, one politician and a Siamese cat.
verbtʃaʊCHou
North American informal
  • Eat.

    〈北美,非正式〉吃

    no object he chowed down on lobster

    他大嚼龙虾。

    with object lions chow down their kills

    狮子吃着猎获物。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She should know - as an exchange student from France to the U.S. during high school, Guiliano gained 20 pounds chowing down on McDonalds and other lynchpins of the American diet.
    • I am much enamoured of Easter and Passover foods and find this my favorite season for chowing down.
    • He works long hours, sweats a lot and chows down on whatever dish strikes his fancy.
    • My second day at my current place of employment, I was happily chowing down on some fried chicken in the shared kitchen when the co-founder came up behind me and stared at my plate.
    • I often went dancing with my parents and their friends on Saturday nights and we'd wind up at the local truck stop or in someone's kitchen at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning chowing down.

Origin

Late 19th century: shortened from chow chow.

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