wheat

英 [wiːt]

美 [wiːt]

n.  小麦(植物); 小麦(籽实)

复数：wheats　

中考高考CET4CET6考研TOEFL

Collins.2 / BNC.5619 / COCA.4479

习惯用语

n.

sort out/separate the wheat from the chaff
• 识别优劣；分清好坏；去芜存菁
  to distinguish useful or valuable people or things from ones that are not useful or have no value

牛津词典

noun

• 小麦（植物）；小麦（籽实）
  a plant grown for its grain that is used to produce the flour for bread, cakes, pasta , etc.; the grain of this plant
  1. wheat flour
     小麦制的面粉

柯林斯词典

• 种植小麦，玉米或其他农作物的农民。 → see:...farmers growing wheat, corn, or other crops.

英英释义

noun

• a variable yellow tint
  Synonym:pale yellowstraw
• grains of common wheat
  Synonym:wheat berry
• annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains

双语例句

• Wheat is grown in places which have cold winters and warm, dry summers
  小麦适宜在冬季寒冷而夏季温暖干燥的地方生长。
• She swept up the grains of wheat that had spilled on the ground.
  她把撒在地上的麦粒儿扫到一块儿。
• Sift out the wheat from the chaff.
  把小麦的壳筛出来。
• We shall turn this piece of wasteland into wheat fields.
  我们要把这块不毛之地改成麦田。
• The wheat crop had been gathered in before the storm came.
  暴风雨到来之前小麦已经收完了。
• Wheat and oats are of the same family, but of different genera.
  小麦和燕麦是同科的，但不同属。
• The main crop is wheat and this is grown even on the very steep slopes.
  主要作物是小麦，就连很陡的坡地都种上了小麦。
• It would pay farmers to plough up the scrub and plant wheat.
  它会出钱雇农民开垦这块低矮丛林来种植麦子。
• The wheat is tillering.
  麦子正在分蘖。
• Canada produces wheat and furs.
  加拿大出产小麦和毛皮。