roast beef

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Beef cooked by roasting. countable,uncountable
  2. A cut of beef that has been roasted. countable,uncountable
    — I tell the waiter, 'We'll have two roast beefs, one well-done, the other medium rare.'
  3. A cut of beef intended for roasting. countable,uncountable
    — Two or three times a week I had to deliver fifteen- or twenty-pound roast beefs to delis around the Bronx so that they could cook them and slice them up for sandwiches.
  4. A portion of roasted beef. countable,uncountable
    — Because there, in the middle of the table, among the roast beefs on rolls,[…]

词形变化

roast beefs plural roastbeef alternative

词源

From roast + beef. Doublet of rosbif, a reborrowing.
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