forage

英 [ˈfɒrɪdʒ]

美 [ˈfɔːrɪdʒ]

v.  觅(食); (尤指用手)搜寻(东西)
n.  (牛马的)饲料

现在分词：foraging　过去式：foraged　第三人称单数：forages　过去分词：foraged　复数：forages　

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牛津词典

verb

• 觅（食）
  to search for food
• （尤指用手）搜寻（东西）
  to search for sth, especially using the hands

noun

• （牛马的）饲料
  food for horses and cows
  1. forage crops/grass
     饲料作物；饲草

柯林斯词典

• VERB 搜查;搜寻
  If someoneforages forsomething, they search for it in a busy way.
  1. They were forced to forage for clothing and fuel.
     他们不得不去寻找衣服和燃料。
• VERB (动物)觅食
  When animalsforage, they search for food.
  1. We disturbed a wild boar that had been foraging by the roadside...
     我们惊动了一只一直在路边觅食的野猪。
  2. The cat forages for food.
     猫在寻找食物。
• N-UNCOUNT 饲料;草料
  Forageis crops that are grown as food for cattle and horses.
  1. ...the amount of forage needed to feed one cow and its calf.
     喂养一头母牛和小牛犊所需要的饲料

英英释义

noun

• the act of searching for food and provisions
  Synonym:foraging
• bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
  Synonym:eatagepasturepasturagegrass

verb

• wander and feed
  1. The animals forage in the woods
• collect or look around for (food)
  Synonym:scrounge

双语例句

• Forage crops also help reduce erosion of the soil.
  草料作物也有助于减低土壤的冲蚀。
• European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops.
  欧洲的一种野豌豆，通常被用来制草料和覆盖作物。
• Cows and sheep depends forage to feed.
  牛和羊依靠草料喂养。
• Important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop.
  欧洲重要的豆科草料植物，三叶，蓝紫色花，作为牧草和甘草作物广泛种植。
• The emphasis was on the research advances in forage quality breeding in recent years.
  并着重概括了国内外牧草品质育种的研究进展。
• Annual native to Korea but widely cultivated for forage and hay in hot dry regions.
  原产于朝鲜的一年生植物，因其可作饲料和干草而在热带干旱地区广泛种植。
• Leguminous plant grown for hay or forage.
  长大后用作干草或草料的豆科植物。
• Valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico.
  北美西部到墨西哥北部干燥的高地地区和平原的有价值的草料草。
• White-flowered Eurasian herb widely cultivated for forage and erosion control.
  欧亚草本植物，花白色，因其可作饲料且具有控制土壤侵蚀作用而广泛种植。
• Recently many cases of host resistance to insects have been reported in papers for forage and legume species.
  最近报纸报道了许多饲类和豆类作物抗虫的情况。