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graze¹ /ɡreɪz/vi. | vt. | n., x& t! }' Q2 X& e
I ❶ vi.
5 ?( O3 q6 e9 l3 U1. (牛、羊等)啃食牧草;放牧1 M0 Q, S5 E- ^0 F+ w* T
The horses were turned out to graze. 马被放出去吃草。$ b4 [1 `; n9 y- u5 a- E5 ^
We used to graze on the fields where the corn is now. 过去我们经常在现在种着粮食的田里放牧。
7 a/ X5 B, _/ Z7 }! s2. <口>吃零食
?/ y0 r# [2 s6 W5 fChildren should not be encouraged to graze on sweets. 不应该鼓励孩子们去吃糖果之类的零食。
; C- Q6 t; l1 q0 K: n, t$ c3. <主美口>随便采样 - h! e' J, V: r' f9 X; p
上述为《英汉大》的截取内容,其中第三个义项“随便采样”没有例句,据传为其蓝本的WBD亦未收录这一义项:; F# i1 [ E8 c9 p; F7 B& W5 ~
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to feed on growing grass and other herbage. Cattle, sheep, and horses graze.
$ K. v8 V( u+ M. A5 aCattle were grazing in the field.
( M$ d, R; U9 V3 I+ {- ?The…horses were turned out to graze (Washington Irving).2 h# c& @4 c, e0 U1 _
to pasture cattle, sheep, or other farm animals. 5 r, d! K) O! E/ i- _
但可在ODE(或lexico.com)中寻得对应义项:4 f' g/ K& u2 v
graze1 /ɡreɪz /. c* A, Z: t6 l* Q
verb [no object]& P! B: d6 h1 h
1(Of cattle, sheep, etc.) eat grass in a field:
d; R8 N0 ?3 l( Gcattle graze on the open meadows...) `" s6 r0 |5 m Y7 Y m
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, u5 {4 z) b0 G" G5 A" A1.4 informal, chiefly North American Casually sample something:
$ H/ `2 P$ ?, s% Uwe grazed up and down the TV channels...
8 o+ _ x$ w! b( ?Its early days, and apparently BT have space for more channels, but it would probably be rather more interesting to show a rolling news channel, which is made for quick grazing.
7 K) \, l# w& h& [. Q, a$ |Channels changing, also called channel surfing or grazing, is one of the largest obstacles that television programmers have to overcome to entice and hold audiences. / V5 Y& Z" j! v% @( f
结论:“<主美口>随便采样”和informal, chiefly North American Casually sample something完全可认为是字字对应(这里暂不考虑两本词典的出版时间),而sample本身就有Get a representative experience of(ODE)的意思,5 g( |9 ? O$ b. A. q
(有意思的是,英汉大的sample条目里面有”浏览;稍加探究,浅尝“的义项,而WBD则将这一义项归在基础义项to take a part of; test a part of之下,标注为比喻用法)
8 ?8 r. j! J$ X( n- E所以似乎可以有把握地认为,英汉大的该义项属于翻译错误,正确的解释应为”随意浏览“。5 z* p6 ?! U2 ]1 c% v
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补充:尝试性搜索对该词条的探讨,有一条可能无关的结果 3 ~; m$ f( C! }
大概看了一下,书中针对的是《英汉大词典补编》中的新词翻译,似乎并未涉及graze词条。本书PDF见http://www.wenqujingdian.com/Pub ... 611212849_20060.pdf
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