单词 | straw |
释义 | straw (strɔː ) Word forms: straws 1. uncountable noun Straw consists of the dried, yellowish stalks from crops such as wheat or barley. The barn was full of bales of straw. I stumbled through mud to a yard strewn with straw. ...a wide-brimmed straw hat. 2. countable noun A straw is a thin tube of paper or plastic, which you use to suck a drink into your mouth. ...a bottle of lemonade with a straw in it. 3. to clutch at straws phrase If you are clutching at straws or grasping at straws, you are trying unusual or extreme ideas or methods because other ideas or methods have failed. ...a badly thought-out scheme from a Government clutching at straws. 4. the last straw phrase If an event is the last straw or the straw that broke the camel's back, it is the latest in a series of unpleasant or undesirable events, and makes you feel that you cannot tolerate a situation any longer. The crisis could be the last straw for many of the world's poorest people. Then came the recession. Revenues dropped, but the straw to break the camel's back was the war. 5. to draw the short straw phrase If you draw the short straw, you are chosen from a number of people to perform a job or duty that you will not enjoy. A few guests have drawn the short straw and agreed to drive others home. 6. straw in the wind phrase [straw inflects] If you say that an incident or piece of news is a straw in the wind, you mean that it gives an indication of what might happen in the future. The latest straw in the wind is a pick-up in sales among the nation's retail giants. Image of straw © sanddebeautheil, Shutterstock Idioms: make bricks without straw to do a job, or try to do it, without the proper resources that are needed for it His job was apparently to make education bricks without straw – that is to say, to be inspiring without having much money. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers draw the short straw [mainly British] to be chosen from a number of people to perform a task or duty that nobody else wants to do Jim drew the short straw: he had to drive forty miles to the airport at midnight to pick up Elizabeth. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers the final straw the latest in a series of unpleasant or difficult events that makes you feel that you cannot tolerate a situation any longer Mr Elton was already distraught over his mother's death. When his wife asked him for a divorce, it was the final straw. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers a man of straw [British, formal] a man who does not have the ability or the courage necessary to carry out a particular task or to fulfil a particular role Either he is a brave and principled national leader or he is a man of straw who does not deserve to win the next election. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers the straw that breaks the camel's back the latest in a series of unpleasant or difficult events that makes you feel that you cannot tolerate a situation any longer Last week, I broke my wrist skateboarding for the second time. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. My dad has told me to give up the sport. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: straw bed There was a straw bed and a wicker chair. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Long-stemmed wheat straw was already in serious decline even before last summer's wet weather. Times, Sunday Times This plant with the input of 30,000 t of wheat straw can produce 5.4 million litres of ethanol a year. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These would convert agricultural residues such as corn stover, wheat straw, and sugar cane bagasse and energy crops such as switchgrass into fermentable sugars. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other plants produce second-generation bioethanol from a combination of corn stover, wheat straw, oat straw, barley straw, hardwood, switchgrass. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To access these sugars, scientists pretreated the wheat straw with alkaline peroxide, and then used specialized enzymes to break down the cell walls. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 稻草, 吸管 Japanese: 麦わら, ストロー |
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