| 释义 |
vitaminize, v.|ˈvɪtəmɪnaɪz|
[f. prec. + -ize.]
trans. To add a vitamin or vitamins to (food, esp. food that lacks the vitamin concerned). Also absol. and fig. Chiefly as ˈvitaminized ppl. a. Also ˌvitaminiˈzation, the treatment of food in this way; ˈvitaminizing ppl. a.
1930Observer 13 Apr. 7 Adventure, we are told, is the ‘vitaminizing element’ in history. 1940Economist 27 Apr. 762/2 A diet of vegetables..milk, butter or vitaminised margarine..brown bread and cheese. 1942Endeavour Jan. 30/2 The compulsory ‘vitaminization’ of margarine that has taken place since the war has merely been an extension to the whole margarine output of a practice already in partial operation. 1944Ourselves in Wartime 153 Margarine was ‘vitaminized’, so that all categories, even the cheapest varieties, were equal in vitamin value to butter. 1960‘R. Gordon’ Doctor in Clover xi. 92 He has taken his vitaminised milk and played Clair de Lune twice on the piano. 1968M. Pyke Food & Society iii. 32 Government regulations enforcing the fluoridization of drinking water or the vitaminization of margarine. 1968M. Woodhouse Rock Baby iii. 25 You've a home-grown, vitaminized, tall-walking, all-American boy. 1970R. Soc. Health Jrnl. XC. 24/1 It had been decided to vitaminize to such a level that in respect of A and D the margarine would be equal to summer butter. 1975Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 3 Aug. 8/2 Vitaminized canned juices. |