1 N-MASS 食物;食品 Food is what people and animals eat.
食物;食品 3 PHRASE (常指因生病)不想吃东西,厌食 If you are
off your
food, you do not want to eat, usually because you are ill.
(常指因生病)不想吃东西,厌食 4 PHRASE 引人深思;发人深省 If you give someone
food for thought, you make them think carefully about something.
引人深思;发人深省 SYN mental nourishment, mental stimulation, food for the mind
Quotations
A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing Samuel Johnson We lived for days on nothing but food and water W.C. Fields Food first, then morality Bertolt Brecht The Threepenny Opera Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Physiologie du Gout There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary Henry David Thoreau letter to Harrison Blake After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relatives Oscar Wilde There is no love sincerer than the love of food George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly M.F.K. Fisher An Alphabet for Gourmets On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners George Mikes How to be an Alien Stands the church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea? Rupert Brooke Grantchester Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy Anthony Powell The Acceptance World The healsome porritch, chief of Scotia's food Robert Burns The Cotter's Saturday Night Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the puddin'-race! Robert Burns To a Haggis Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did William Butler (on the strawberry) Mayonnaise: one of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary Milk's leap towards immortality Clifford Fadiman (of cheese) Any Number Can Play Sauce: the one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary [If the people have no bread] let them eat cake Marie-Antoinette Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God Bible: St. Matthew View usage for:All yearsLast 10 yearsLast 50 yearsLast 100 yearsLast 300 years