单词 | brew |
释义 | brew —brew /bruː/ noun (DRINK) F0 [C] a type of beer, especially one made in a particular place or at a particular time Thesaurus+: ↑Beer and ciderF0 [C usually singular] UK INFORMAL a drink of tea or a drink of beer: » Make us a brew, Bren.Thesaurus+: ↑Warm drinksThesaurus+: ↑Beer and cidernoun [C] (MIX) ► F0 a mixture of several things: » They gave her a strange brew to drink.» War, with its fear, its deprivation, its excitement and violence makes for a very heady brew (= powerful combination).Thesaurus+: ↑Mixing and mixtures , ↑Variety and mixtures , ↑Connecting and combining , ↑Groups and collections of thingsverb (DRINK) ↑Verb Endings for brew F0 [T] to make beer Thesaurus+: ↑Beer and ciderF0 [I or T] If you brew tea or coffee, you add boiling water to it to make a hot drink, and if it brews, it gradually develops flavour in the container in which it was made: » [+ two objects] He brewed us some coffee./He brewed some coffee for us.Thesaurus+: ↑Warm drinksverb [I] (BAD SITUATION) ↑Verb Endings for brew ► F0 If an unpleasant situation or a storm is brewing, you feel that it is about to happen: » It was too quiet - I felt that trouble was brewing.» A storm was brewing in the distance.Thesaurus+: ↑About to happen , ↑Closeness in distance and time |
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