英语词汇“Bovril”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Bovril

/ˈbɒvrɪl

noun [mass noun] trademark

A concentrated essence of beef diluted with hot water to make a drink: [as count noun]: could she bring her Bovril up and drink it while having a chat?...

A bit of Bovril - essentially reduced beef stock - would stretch vegetables into the nutritional equivalent of steak.
Very rarely is there any substance to these tales, more often that not they are propagated by strange old men who drink Bovril.
Especially notable was a picture of an ox sadly regarding a pot of Bovril, captioned ‘Alas! my poor brother’.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Latin bos, bov- 'ox', the second element perhaps from vril, an imaginary form of energy described in E. Bulwer-Lytton's novel The Coming Race (1871).

单词	Bovril
释义	Bovril /ˈbɒvrɪl / noun [mass noun] trademark A concentrated essence of beef diluted with hot water to make a drink: [as count noun]: could she bring her Bovril up and drink it while having a chat?... A bit of Bovril - essentially reduced beef stock - would stretch vegetables into the nutritional equivalent of steak. Very rarely is there any substance to these tales, more often that not they are propagated by strange old men who drink Bovril. Especially notable was a picture of an ox sadly regarding a pot of Bovril, captioned ‘Alas! my poor brother’. Origin Late 19th century: from Latin bos, bov- 'ox', the second element perhaps from vril, an imaginary form of energy described in E. Bulwer-Lytton's novel The Coming Race (1871).
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