Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense forks, present participle forking, past tense, past participle forked
1N-COUNT 叉;餐叉 A fork is a tool used for eating food which has a row of three or four long metal points at the end. 叉;餐叉
...knives and forks.
刀叉
2VERB 用叉子叉 If you fork food into your mouth or onto a plate, you put it there using a fork. 用叉子叉
Ann forked some fish into her mouth. [V n + into/onto]
安用叉子叉了点儿鱼肉放进嘴里。
He forked an egg onto a piece of bread and folded it into a sandwich. [V n + into/onto]
他用叉子叉了个鸡蛋放在面包上,然后把面包片折起做成了三明治。
3N-COUNT 叉,耙(园艺工具) A garden fork is a tool used for breaking up soil which has a row of three or four long metal points at the end. 叉,耙(园艺工具)
4VERB 叉运,叉掘(肥料、干草等) If you fork something such as manure or hay, you move it from one place to another using a large garden fork. 叉运,叉掘(肥料、干草等)
They started me off in the gardens as a handyman. Digging, forking manure, that kind of thing. [VERB noun]
他们让我先在园子里干些杂活,挖土、叉粪肥之类的。
Farmers cut the hay, fork it on to a cart and then store it in barns. [VERB noun prep.]
农夫们割下干草,用叉子把草叉到车上,然后拉到谷仓贮存。
5N-COUNT (道路、河流等的)分岔处,分流处;分岔;岔路 A fork in a road, path, or river is a point at which it divides into two parts and forms a 'Y' shape. (道路、河流等的)分岔处,分流处;分岔;岔路
We arrived at a fork in the road. [+ in]
我们到达了一个岔路口。
The road divides; you should take the right fork.
路在这里分了岔;你应该走右边一条。
...the fork of the Delaware and Lehigh rivers.
特拉华河和利哈伊河的分岔口
6VERB [no cont](道路、河流等)分岔 If a road, path, or river forks, it forms a fork. (道路、河流等)分岔
Beyond the village the road forked. [VERB]
过了村子之后路分了岔。
The path dipped down to a sort of cove, and then it forked in two directions. [VERB prep./adv.]
7VERB 走岔路 If you fork in a particular direction when you are travelling along a road or path, you choose one of the forks in it and travel down it. 走岔路
Just before the town boundary fork left onto a minor road. [VERB prep./adv.]