英语释义

• a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics

• cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca

• any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch

片语

cassava eelworm木薯根线虫

cassava lees木薯酒糟

cassava thrips木薯蓟马

Cassava spirits木薯酒

cassava residual木薯渣

cassava mosaic木薯花叶病

Cassava root木薯

Guangxi cassava广西木薯

Cassava hay木薯干草

cassava starch[食品] 木薯淀粉

英汉例句

• reduced to eating cassava peelings when militiamen stole all her food and animals, she was forced to send her eldest children scavenging for food in the countryside – at risk of their lives.

  当武装人员偷去她的全部食物和家畜后，她只能吃木薯皮，她不得不将年长的孩子们送到乡下，冒着生命危险从垃圾中寻找食物。

• her 12-year-old son found her unconscious in the cassava fields where she had been working.

  她12岁的儿子在她一直干活的木薯地里发现她毫无知觉地躺在那里。

• 「we used to have corn and potatoes and cassava before the government took our fields,」 she says.

  她说，”在政府拿走我们田地之前，我们过去种有玉米、土豆和木薯“。

• compared with amber waves of grain or the blond tresses of a field of ripe corn, cassava is an inglorious workhorse of a crop, a few spindly red stems sprouting from a clutch of brown tubers.

  相比谷物成熟时的金黄起伏或玉米收获时颗粒饱满，木薯则是一种朴实无华的顽强作物，稀疏的红色细长枝干底下连着一大串的褐色块茎。

• if her cassava crop had been healthy, she estimated, she could have sold it for $500.

  如果木薯安然无事的话，纳卢古估计自己的收成可以卖个500美元。

• the rest is scraped out in cassava and banana from what should be a fertile land but is unforgiving; this year's harvest has failed.

  其余的则靠从土地里挖木薯和香蕉，这些土地应该很肥沃但不适合居住；今年的收成已经没有了。

• a mealy bug on a cassava stem, from an affected plantation in north-eastern thailand.

  泰国东北地区某个受虫害困扰种植园，一只粉蚧爬在木薯茎桿上。

• even the major food crops of the poor -- wheat, rice, white maize, potato and cassava -- are also being neglected, according to sofa 2004.

  据《2004年粮农状况》称，即使穷人的主要粮食作物-小麦、稻米、白玉米、马铃薯和木薯 —亦受到忽视。

• mukono, uganda — lynet nalugo dug a cassava tuber out of her field and sliced it open.

  穆科诺，乌干达——莱恩特·纳卢古从她的地里掘起一块木薯，用刀切开。