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单词 juice
释义

juice

/dʒuːs /
noun [mass noun]
1The liquid obtained from or present in fruit or vegetables: add the juice of a lemon...
  • Once the cheese has melted, add lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste.
  • Add mustard and all of the herbs and spices to the white sauce then add lemon juice.
  • Combine oil, vinegar, lemon juice, salt, sugar, and herbs in a small saucepan.

Synonyms

liquid, fluid, sap;
extract;
Winemaking taille
1.1A drink made from fruit or vegetable juice: a carton of orange juice...
  • Since the surgery, the woman has eaten strawberries and chocolate and drunk coffee and fruit juice, her doctors said.
  • Choose water, club soda, diet soda, fruit juice, tea and coffee first.
  • I drink only orange juice, never tea or coffee, which would only increase my level of impatience.
1.2 (juices) The liquid that comes from meat or other food when cooked: put with the salmon, reserving the cooking juices...
  • Cook meat thoroughly; juices should be brown, not pink or red.
  • Pour on the marinade juices and cook for one hour in a medium oven.
  • Pass the cooking juices through a food mill into a saucepan and stir in the lemon juice.

Synonyms

liquid, liquor
1.3 (juices) Fluid secreted by the body, especially in the stomach to help digest food: the digestive juices...
  • Artichoke leaf extract stimulates digestive juices like saliva and bile to help you break down food.
  • The pancreas makes and secretes digestive juices and enzymes, which help break down fats, carbohydrates and proteins.
  • It usually starts in the inner lining of the tube that the digestive juices flow through.

Synonyms

secretions;
serum
1.4 (juices) A person’s vitality or creative faculties: it saps the creative juices...
  • When we're excited about a project, our creative juices and mental faculties are in full gear.
  • My creative juices boil at the prospect of national stardom.
  • Flavors get lighter and fruitier in the spring and that sap-rising energy gets creative juices flowing, and pouring.
1.5 informal Electrical energy: the batteries have run out of juice...
  • Switches, outlets and fixtures are the gateways through which your electrical juice pours.
  • There is no need to wait on the engine as there is plenty of electric juice to launch the vehicle.
  • You need electric juice to mix up all those fruity summer drinks to be enjoyed poolside.
1.6Petrol: he ran out of juice on the last lap
1.7North American informal Influence or power, especially in a political or business context: Lucchese was involved in the case and he had a certain amount of juice around the city...
  • You should have enough juice to get the Agency to cooperate with you.
  • As the P.A.'s clerk, I was some sort of a big shot myself; in con jargon, I had a lot of ‘juice’.
  • She is not yet ready to use her juice to alter Administration policy.
1.8North American informal Alcoholic drink.
1.9North American informal Anabolic steroids: I know there are 82 players on the juice...
  • Experts say a mature athlete can add 30 pounds of lean muscle mass by getting on the juice.
  • He said that maybe half of all major league players were on the juice.
  • The Cuban-born player then had the audacity to claim in a tell-all book that most professional baseballs players are on the juice.
verb [with object]
1Extract the juice from (fruit or vegetables): juice one orange at a time...
  • My mother had often sprinkled the multifaceted, ruby-like pomegranate seeds on fruit salads at Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I had never considered juicing the fruit.
  • Eating the fruit or extracting the seeds and juicing them is time-consuming and messy (the juice stains).
  • If people don't like eating vegetables, they suggest juicing them.
2 (juice something up) North American informal Liven something up: they juiced it up with some love interest...
  • In fact, it's almost as if the situation of a love letter juices them up and gives them some of their best prose that they can then put into their fiction.
  • Anytime the pace seems to flag (it does so with clockwork precision) the music is juiced up and things explode and then our heroes are back where they started - negotiating even bigger plot-holes.
  • Portfolios have sunk along with the technology stocks that juiced them up.
3 (as adjective juiced) North American informal Drunk: on his pub crawl he became suitably juiced

Phrases

get one's creative juices flowing

Derivatives

juiceless

/ˈdʒuːsləs / adjective ...
  • In front of a bristling, Bristol crowd Pietersen pounded a quite astonishing innings that transformed England from a juiceless juggernaut into a valiant vehicle still on the winning track.
  • After spending time with Gina and contemplating my own woefully juiceless existence, I resolved to do something about it.
  • Words, he says, are useless; they've been used up until they're thoroughly juiceless.

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin jus 'broth, vegetable juice'.

Rhymes

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