meat的基本意思是“肉”,指除了鱼和禽类以外的,所有可以被人类食用的肉类。引申可指“主要或重要部分”。
meat通常不用于复数形式,但meats可指“各种肉类”。
a cut of meat指“一块〔刀〕肉”; a dish of meat指“一盘肉”; a piece of meat指“一片肉”。
Remove the meat with a fork and divide it among four plates.
用餐叉把肉叉走,分到4个盘里。
The government increased prices on several basic commodities like bread and meat.
政府提高了面包、肉类等几种基本商品的价格。
The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。