turkey

英 [ˈtɜːki]

美 [ˈtɜːrki]

n.  吐绶鸡; 火鸡; 火鸡肉; 失败

复数：turkeys　

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Collins.1 / BNC.4180 / COCA.3292

习惯用语

n.

talk turkey
• 郑重其事地谈；严肃认真地谈
  to talk about sth seriously

牛津词典

noun

• 吐绶鸡；火鸡
  a large bird that is often kept for its meat, eaten especially at Christmas in Britain and at Thanksgiving in the US
• 火鸡肉
  meat from a turkey
  1. roast turkey
     烤火鸡肉
• 失败
  a failure
  1. His latest movie is a real turkey.
     他最近的那部电影是一大败笔。
• 笨蛋；草包
  a stupid or useless person

柯林斯词典

• See also:Turkeyis the flesh of this bird eaten as food.It's a proper Christmas dinner, with turkey and bread sauce.cold turkey

英英释义

noun

• large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail
  Synonym:Meleagris gallopavo
• an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
  1. the first experiment was a real turkey
  2. the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned
  Synonym:bombdud
• flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
• a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
  1. some joker is blocking the driveway
  Synonym:joker

双语例句

• She avoided the issue by ordering a turkey sandwich
  她点了份火鸡三明治，以此来避开这个重要问题。
• Dr Kengerli looks to Turkey as his mother country.
  肯戈理博士视土耳其为自己的祖国。
• They associate turkey with Thanksgiving.
  他们把火鸡和感恩节联系在一起。
• The quickest way to get her off the drug was to let her go cold turkey.
  要使她摆脱毒品，最快的方法是让她彻底戒毒。
• The haulage company was a carrier of machine parts to Turkey.
  该公路货运公司负责将机械零件运往土耳其。
• Turkey and Greece were buffer states against the former Soviet Union.
  土耳其和希腊是前苏联与反苏国家之间的缓冲国。
• It negotiated similar deals with Brazil and Turkey.
  中国与巴西和土耳其也就类似交易进行了谈判。
• Turkey plans to harness the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for big hydro-electric power projects.
  土耳其计划利用底格里斯河和幼发拉底河的河水开发大型水电项目。
• The list of countries in trouble also includes Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia and Turkey.
  遇到问题的国家还包括保加利亚、爱沙尼亚、拉脱维亚和土耳其。
• Greece broke off relations with Turkey.
  希腊断绝了与土耳其的关系。