chicken soup

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any soup made with either pieces of chicken or chicken broth as its main ingredient. countable,uncountable
    — He should have guessed that her great-great-grandmother's secret chicken soup recipe was a can from the store.
  2. A cure for a wide variety of illnesses or other problems. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — Duct tape is the chicken soup of plumbing.
  3. A mixed-up mush. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — His hand got caught in a meat grinder and turned into chicken soup.
  4. The aqueous solution of nutrients used in the Viking lander biological experiments to detect microbial Martian life. countable,historical,slang,uncountable

词形变化

chicken soups plural

词源

The figurative sense comes from the fact that the soup is a folk remedy for colds.
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