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单词 food
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food
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Word forms: foods
1. variable noun A1
Food is what people and animals eat.
Enjoy your food.
...supplies of food and water.
...emergency food aid.
...frozen foods.
Synonyms: nourishment, cooking, provisions, fare  
2.  See also convenience food, fast food, health food, junk food, wholefood
3. be off your food phrase
If you are off your food, you do not want to eat, usually because you are ill.
It's not like you to be off your food.
4. food for thought phrase
If you give someone food for thought, you make them think carefully about something.
Lord Fraser's speech offers much food for thought.
Developments in your career may give you food for thought.
Synonyms: mental nourishment, mental stimulation, food for the mind  
Quotations:
A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothingSamuel Johnson
We lived for days on nothing but food and waterW.C. Fields
Food first, then moralityBertolt BrechtThe Threepenny Opera
Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you areAnthelme Brillat-SavarinPhysiologie du Gout
There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is wearyHenry David Thoreauletter to Harrison Blake
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relativesOscar Wilde
There is no love sincerer than the love of foodGeorge Bernard ShawMan and Superman
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightlyM.F.K. FisherAn Alphabet for Gourmets
Stands the church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?
Rupert BrookeGrantchester
Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedyAnthony PowellThe Acceptance World
The healsome porritch, chief of Scotia's foodRobert BurnsThe Cotter's Saturday Night
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the puddin'-race!
Robert BurnsTo a Haggis
Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never didWilliam Butler (on the strawberry)
Mayonnaise: one of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religionAmbrose BierceThe Devil's Dictionary
Milk's leap towards immortalityClifford Fadiman (of cheese)Any Number Can Play
Sauce: the one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgivenAmbrose BierceThe Devil's Dictionary
[If the people have no bread] let them eat cakeMarie-Antoinette
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God Bible: St. Matthew
Half a loaf is better than no bread
You cannot have your cake and eat it
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
Idioms:
give someone food for thought
to make someone think very hard about an issue
I am not a religious person, but knowing what a good and faithful servant my friend has been, it has certainly given me food for thought.
Collocations:
cheap food
Those on low incomes depend on cheap food.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The era of cheap food is, sadly, over.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Consumers and retailers are continually demanding cheaper and cheaper food.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
food can
Trapped within it were ribbons of kelp, dead squid and blue-fish, sea-cucumbers and a rusty food can.
Ballard, J. G. RUSHING TO PARADISE (1990)
food handler
Particularly dangerous if a food handler.
Mayes, Adrienne The Dictionary of Nutritional Health (1986)
They also spotted a food handler wiping their nose in a'high risk' area.
The Sun (2012)
food import
Within a year, as ships were diverted to troop-carrying duties and industrial raw materials increasingly claimed cargo space, food imports fell to 11 million tons.
The Times Literary Supplement
Famine was averted, but more by good luck than good management as it became clear that many of the food imports had never actually arrived.
Times, Sunday Times
A deal on food imports, if it comes off, will be negotiated at meetings with ministers today.
Times, Sunday Times
There would be no food imports.
Times, Sunday Times
Without massive food imports, the opposition warned that half the nation's 12,5-million population faced deepening hunger in coming months.
The Star (South Africa)
food item
He writes down the date of every food item that comes into the kitchen.
Times, Sunday Times
In many places, there’s a set price per food item (e.g., $3).
Smithsonian
She hardly ever objects to any food item - or to her insufferable companion.
Times, Sunday Times
As he begins to accept a food item he previously disliked make that part of the meal he wants, then begin introducing a small amount of another new item.
Times, Sunday Times
These sharks exist in the 'desert zone' of the open sea, and their ultra-curious behaviour has been put down to their need to investigate any potential food item.
Times, Sunday Times
food label
For all you sugar-free warriors out there, just routinely checking a food label brings a level of mindfulness.
Times, Sunday Times
Researchers are calling for them to carry a 'red' food label warning as some are loaded with as many as 12 teaspoonsful.
The Sun
Traditional weight loss plans are based on the calories on a food label.
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Generally, mandatory information or claims that are acceptable on a food label may also be used to advertise that food.
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You'd have to read food labels very closely to know why.
Times, Sunday Times
food manufacturer
Every food manufacturer should be forced to use it.
The Sun
The food manufacturer demanded that its suppliers pay if they wanted to continue working with it; those that refused were threatened with being blacklisted.
Times, Sunday Times
The food manufacturer would then be able to rid itself of a 436m pension deficit.
Times, Sunday Times
The licence will be sold to another food manufacturer.
Times, Sunday Times
Our national tastes and preferences are too important, too fundamental, basic and precious to be trusted to the ownership of some all-over-himself cook or venal food manufacturer.
Times, Sunday Times
food market
However, the artisan and luxury food market seems to be weathering the economic stormvery nicely, thank you.
Times, Sunday Times
Go on the pedal-powered smoothie maker, pick up a treat at the food market, watch outdoor theatre.
Times, Sunday Times
It's actually cool to cheat, although only in ways that demonstrate your keen awareness of the food market and value for money.
Times, Sunday Times
We provide information on all aspects of wellbeing, from our outdoor food market with information on healthy eating to our extensive sports provision.
Times, Sunday Times
Ground zero for the coronavirus was a food market, where authorities said illegal wildlife had been sold.
Times,Sunday Times
food menu
It has a short food menu for picking at and a well-curated spirits selection.
Times, Sunday Times
A crisp-suited waiter hands me the new bar's food menu, snapping me out of my reverie.
Times, Sunday Times
The interior has a nautical theme, and you can take on ballast from the extensive food menu: fish, chips and mushy peas will set you back 7.25.
Times, Sunday Times
That was the food menu.
Times, Sunday Times
There was no standard food menu for franchises until 1978.
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food pantry
I reiterated our value for 'every member a minister' and that he was the minister responsible for the food pantry.
Christianity Today
He took all the canned goods available in our food pantry and devised meals that tasted delicious.
Christianity Today
The lower level houses a food pantry and clothing store for the needy.
Christianity Today
The storefront at far end of the block houses the food pantry, clothing closet, furniture warehouse, and the financial counseling office.
Christianity Today
Back home, we started operating a coffee house, a bookstore, a food pantry, a clothing center.
Christianity Today
food product
The food product goes to a regional distribution centre in a truck.
The Sun
I might even create a new food product or utensil.
The Sun
They have invented a method of converting fresh vegetation, a material the digestive system of ants cannot handle, into an edible food product.
Christianity Today
They're the most versatile food product in the world.
The Sun
You couldn't ask for more in a food product.
Times, Sunday Times
food safety
In fact, it's a nonscientific and completely erroneous rule of thumb for food safety.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
They are market-driven and more about manufacturers' profits than food safety.
The Sun (2017)
A fifth said that it was an attempt to save money and about the same number cited concerns over animal welfare or food safety.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
There would be a hundred times as many health inspectors and food safety labs.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The company admitted breaching food safety and hygiene regulations.
The Sun (2016)
food source
Their usual food source is not available because worms, beetles and other prey are hidden away at this time of year.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The answer is that the rural herring gull, used to scavenging off fishermen, has lost its food source.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
To find such an abundant local concentration of large organisms clearly pointed to an unusually rich food source.
Chapman, Philip Caves and Cave Life (1993)
Natural seston was collected every second day and added as food source using a peristaltic pump.
Øystein eLeiknes, Siv Anina Etter, Nils Egil Tokle, Maria eBergvik, Olav eVadstein, Yngvar eOlsen 2016, 'The effect of essential fatty acids for the somatic growth in nauplii of Calanus finmarchicus', Frontiers in Marine Science
food storage
There is a pantry, a food storage facility without which no kitchen can today be called smart.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It's worth reminding about safe food storage and preparation.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Once a larder was a chilly food storage room.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
food tastes
Other studies have shown that eating in front of a mirror makes junk food taste less appealing.
The Sun (2016)
Taste declines with age and food tastes bland.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It's part of what makes a skilled chef's food taste great.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
fresh food
A time-sensitive label can show how long fresh food lasts.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He'd also been active in the flourishing black market, trading goods pilfered from work for fresh food, theatre tickets, clothes.
Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2002)
There was a canteen with fresh food, and a small alternative theatre space.
Carlos Acosta No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale (2007)
We are all suffering from prickly heat and the insects and the lack of any fresh food.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It will sell fresh food and ready meals in the oil giant's petrol forecourts.
The Sun (2009)
fried food
The mouthfeel is common to streaky bacon, butter and fried food.
The Sun (2014)
There are those who complain they can't fit on aeroplane seats but live on fried food and barrels of cola.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
CUTTING fried food or fizzy drinks is not enough to beat the obesity crisis, a study claims.
The Sun (2017)
The whole place smelt strongly of fried food underlain with a general unpleasant mustiness.
Stuart Harrison LOST SUMMER (2002)
gourmet food
Hanoi is also home to great gourmet food on the cheap and boutique digs for less than 50 a night.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Predictably, producing gourmet food for celebrities from a makeshift kitchen can be far from glamorous.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
You can get gourmet food in a tin and it's not frowned upon.
The Sun (2014)
We used to love going to gigs, fabulous restaurants and buying gourmet food.
The Sun (2011)
healthy food
I get embarrassed when we're out with friends - he calls healthy food ' rabbit food' and says he'll never go near it.
The Sun (2008)
I'm despatched to dose up on folic acid, antioxidants and healthy food.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
If they are old enough, explain about tooth decay and why it's important to get back to healthy food.
The Sun (2016)
Although campaigns to raise awareness about the benefits of healthy food appear to have worked, students said that junk food was better value.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
They're very good at disguising healthy food in nice meals for grown-ups.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
hospital food
Patients often buy snacks like a sandwich and crisps to avoid hospital food.
The Sun (2012)
The Department of Health said most patients were happy with hospital food.
The Sun (2009)
Then you have to work in the cost - more is spent on prison food than on hospital food.
The Sun (2011)
low-fat food
I took the long-term approach and kept at it, doing lots of exercise classes and learning to cook tasty, low-fat food.
The Sun
After 8 weeks, those eating high-fat foods had lost more weight than those eating low-fat food: 9.5lb compared with 8.2lb.
Times, Sunday Times
With me he eats low-fat food, fresh fish and salad and snacks on fruit.
The Sun
I collected the pills, which must have cost about three quid, and the bags of special low-fat food.
Times, Sunday Times
The low-fat food industry was born.
Times, Sunday Times
nutritious food
Your skin depends upon nutritious foods to keep it vibrant.
The Sun (2012)
They're more unhealthy because nutritious food is more expensive than heavily processed, toxic junk.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It is at times like this that a store cupboard containing nutritious food plays an important part in your ability to stay warm and healthy.
Stay Well This Winter (1989)
organic food
Those who become addicted to toxic food will not find organic food enjoyable.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Our appetite for organic food is unending.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It has a congenial, boho atmosphere, with an emphasis on seasonal organic food.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
While still at university he helped to set up an organic food store, café and bookshop that was run as a co-operative.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
EATING organic food may make you fatter, according to a study.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
plate of food
Each time they were given a large plate of food and told to eat as much as they wanted.
Times, Sunday Times
Paella, in contrast, was a dish where every ingredient to be found was added to create a huge, generous plate of food.
Times, Sunday Times
You don't have to make things complicated to enjoy a fabulous plate of food.
Times, Sunday Times
When everything falls into place, even the most modest plate of food can be transformed into a memorable meal.
Times, Sunday Times
First she marches me off to get a plate of food - an exquisitely prepared melange of salads - from her cook (she famously hates restaurants).
Times, Sunday Times
portion of food
When a cook was wetted he admitted serving himself an extra portion of food and was banished from the island.
Times, Sunday Times
Her usual jumbo portions of food were replaced by four daily mealreplacements of soups or snack bars, at approximately 600 calories.
The Sun
She believed surgery had shrunk her stomach to the size of a golf ball - and ate tiny portions of food.
The Sun
Is it the case that five-a-day, now, means we should aim for five portions of food programming a day?
Times, Sunday Times
Controlling portions of food helps manage your body weight.
The Sun
prepare food
Don't let the fact you use a kitchen to prepare food constrain the way it looks.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Do you have a favourite implement to cook or prepare food with?
The Sun (2015)
The kitchen will host demonstrations on the planning and preparation of animal diets and visitors will get the chance to help prepare food and feed the animals.
The Sun (2012)
It advised people not to alter their eating habits or the way they prepare food.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
processed food
Eat as little processed food as possible to dramatically cut the amount of salt you eat.
The Sun
It also remains unclear whether consumers used to buying fresh produce will have an appetite for processed food.
Times, Sunday Times
Do not add any extra when eating and avoid processed food for the rest of the day to keep your intake under 6g.
The Sun
I mostly eat raw vegetables and no processed food, and only drink water.
The Sun
Now health experts want manufacturers to lower the levels of extra sugar and glucose syrup in processed food.
The Sun
protein food
The meat and dry fruits make it a high protein food.
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Protein foods, especially lean red meat, eggs and oily fish such as mackerel and sardines, are also very good for providing the mineral iron.
Times, Sunday Times
Your meals will need to contain a good proportion of protein foods to meet your daily nutritional needs and to keep you satisfied for longer.
Times,Sunday Times
Instead, eat foods that gradually release energy like porridge, lean protein foods like fish and chicken and fruits and vegetables.
The Sun
Eat as many high amino-acid protein foods and as many vegetables as you like from the list below.
Times, Sunday Times
quality food
You need quality food: chicken, fish, vegetables, sweet potato, rice.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They don't mind spending their hard-earned money on quality food, either.
The Sun (2014)
Cheap, quality food for hungry students and local office workers is the focus here.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
quantity of food
The quantity of food was carefully described, usually about three quarters of that habitually eaten before weight loss.
Times,Sunday Times
In the past 40 years the quantity of food worldwide that crosses national boundaries rather than being grown locally has increased by 50 per cent.
Times,Sunday Times
She also has to shop for groceries on a daily basis to reduce the quantity of food available at any one time.
Times, Sunday Times
Because its yields are lower, it uses about twice as much land as inorganic farming to produce the same quantity of food.
Times, Sunday Times
It means you can share a meal without interruption, duck out of tipping the irrelevant staff and control the quantity of food on your plate.
Times, Sunday Times
raw food
When I'm on my own I don't bother to cook; I eat raw food.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Cut out all processed foods and eat lots of raw foods.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
We in the West eat few raw foods, and processing, storage and cooking all take their toll of trace elements.
Miracle Micronutrients (1987)
scarce food
Workers were forced to live in conditions that were beyond grim - no daylight, scarce food and sleep, and no proper sanitation.
Times, Sunday Times
Thousands of the newly homeless, covered in blood and dust and wrapped in blankets, wandered the devastated streets in search of increasingly scarce food, medicine and - above all - water.
Times, Sunday Times
They will be catching up on the progress of the wildlife, including pine martens and red squirrels, that make the area their home, as they search for scarce food sources.
The Sun
Diseases and natural disasters also contributed to the scarce food supply.
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Another interesting psy-war tool was forged ration cards that disrupted local economies, when bearers flooded stores for scarce food goods.
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seasonal food
We serve rustic, simple, seasonal food.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The consumer generally has lost the appreciation of the value of seasonal foods.
The Residue Report - an action plan for safer food (1988)
My aim is to serve fresh, seasonal, contemporary food in a sharing style.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
serve food
Bonus: Bistro food served in their courtyard.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He regularly experiments with dishes and uses different ingredients to enhance the quality of food served, whether in presentation or taste.
Conil, Jean & Conil, Christopher (ed) A Passion for Food (1989)
Gourmet food served in a classy restaurant.
The Sun (2008)
The best seasonal food served up in a straightforward, no-nonsense way.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
snack food
Her role involves cooking, providing a snack food delivery service, keeping computer records of food supplies and general assistance in the kitchen.
The Sun
Now he still owns two restaurants and a nightclub, a training facility, an office complex, a snack food bar and slot machines.
The Sun
The campaign will make clear that the nation's diet needs to change after sales of snack food and alcohol increased during lockdown.
Times,Sunday Times
In some schools, pupils resorted to buying snack food from the tuck shop during their morning break to avoid long queues at lunchtime.
Times, Sunday Times
Bosses at the snack food firm have spent months searching warehouses trying to track down the furry suits last seen 25 years ago.
The Sun
specialty food
Look for it in natural food and specialty food stores for about $2 a bottle.
Houston Chronicle
Specialty food and beverages areas.
Houston Chronicle
Continuous live music and specialty food vendors are also featured.
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It actively seeks foreign investment aimed at increasing agricultural exports, particularly specialty food items.
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These are items typically stocked only in specialty food retail stores and are hard to locate in general.
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spicy food
WHY... is spicy food addictive?
The Sun (2016)
Avoid hot curries and too much spicy food.
Westcott, Patsy Alternative Health Care for Women (1991)
He added that spicy food also helps produce mucus, which can wash away bacteria.
The Sun (2011)
You meet where spicy food is sold.
The Sun (2010)
staple food
Rice is the staple food of three billion of the world's poorest people in Africa and Asia.
The Sun (2008)
One of my favourites is the dish called hummus, which is a staple food of people throughout the Middle East.
The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure (1990)
For many people cheap fried chicken is a staple food for lunch and dinner.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
steal food
He survived by stealing food and essential supplies, such as propane gas and batteries, from the cabins in the vicinity.
The Times Literary Supplement (2017)
They survive by selling flowers, begging, pickpocketing or stealing food from the market.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The ferocious battle erupted after a feisty female tried to steal food from her rival's cubs.
The Sun (2010)
They stole food from street stalls and slept by night-watchmen's fires.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
store food
Before humans stored food, the beetles were carrion-feeders, moving in at the dry sinew stage after the fly maggots had finished.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The loft was additionally used as a makeshift larder to store food.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
But it involved tearing down people's houses and often destroying their means of making, preparing and storing food.
Diane Purkiss The English Civil War: A People's History (2006)
They have large cheek pouches on either side of the head in which they store food.
Burton, John A. Animals of the World (1993)
Food wastage is also something people are more conscious of now, and storing food in containers is preferable to throwing it in the bin.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
supermarket food
In 2007, she launched her own supermarket food ranges based on her most popular recipes.
Times, Sunday Times
I wanted to relish the experience: new smells, weird supermarket food, wide, open avenues with silver skyscrapers.
Times, Sunday Times
Beware the hidden promises of supermarket food, she advises.
Times, Sunday Times
Of the 10.8 billion that students will spend this year, almost 4 billion will go on rent and 1.2 billion on supermarket food shopping.
Times, Sunday Times
The report said that while the total weight of supermarket food packaging had reduced in the past two years, almost 40 per cent still cannot be easily recycled.
Times, Sunday Times
unhealthy food
They want ads for unhealthy food kept off the internet, social media and family TV shows.
The Sun (2015)
I really try to avoid unhealthy foods as I feel the difference it makes to my body, as soon as I eat them.
The Sun (2014)
Having a mirror in the room can put people off eating unhealthy foods, research suggests.
The Sun (2015)
vegetarian food
Sales of vegetarian pet foods are growing by up to 25 % a year.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Eat more vegetarian foods and substitute fish and chicken instead of meat.
The Family Nutrition Workbook (1988)
It's like making vegetarian food that tastes of sausages.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
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Chinese: 食物
Japanese: 食べ物
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