英语释义

1. the food or foods that a person or animal eats most often
Environmental changes are depriving the birds of the insects that form their staple diet. —often used figuratively
I grew up on a staple diet of cartoons and comic books.

片语

staple foods主食

英汉例句

• With their staple diet of rats and mice in plentiful supply in a season, stoats fed well and their numbers reached plague levels.

  如果一个繁殖季节中白鼬有充足的沟鼠和鼷鼠为主食，它们就会生长良好，且数量会达到猖獗的程度。

• The staple diet of most Indians consist of dal/sambar, rice, chapatis/rotis with cooked vegetables (mildly spiced/stir fried) or fish/meat.

  印度人的主食包括南印度酸豆汤、米饭、印度烙饼、（适当调味或煸炒的）蔬菜以及鱼和肉。

• Food Safety is a Given, as a supplier of a staple diet food it is of Paramount importance that the food we provide is: safe, tasty, nutrition, succulent, and value for money.

  但是食品安全是必须的。作为主食供应商，最重要的一点就是，我们提供的食物是：安全的、美味的、富有营养的、多汁的、物有所值的。

• Creative churn, America「s staple diet (unless you」re too big to fail), is not the Italian way.

  创意搅动，美国的主食(除非你是巨无霸，不会失败)，不是意大利的风格。

• 「God made the vittles but the devil made the cook,」 was a popular saying used by seafaring men in the 19th century when salted beef was staple diet aboard ship.

  「上帝创造了世界，魔鬼创造了厨子」是十九世纪海员们经常说得一句话。因为当时他们的主食是腌制的牛肉。

• He was a Marine combat veteran who had lived on a staple diet of Semper Fi and studied silence all his life.

  他是海军陆战队的一名退伍老兵，以「永远忠诚」为人生信条，一辈子沉默寡言。

• For people are hungry in Niger. The rains failed last year and the staple diet of millet is running out.

  尼日尔的人民都很饑饿。去年没有下雨，而现在作为主食的小米又快吃完了。

• A staple diet of candy bars makes an ordinary apple or orange seem sour.

  以糖果当主食会使得普通的苹果或橘子似乎都是酸的。

• Rice is the staple diet in many Asian countries.

  稻米是亚洲许多国家的主食。

• Spam (SPiced hAM) is a staple diet of many Filipinos and is found in almost every food cupboard in the Philippines.

  Spam是一种辣肉，作为很多菲律宾人的主食，你可以在菲律宾几乎所有的食品柜里看到。