n.(名词)

1. 马铃薯
2. 土豆
3. 洋芋
4. 甘薯
5. 袜子洞
6. 一元钱
7. 头（部）
8. 难看的脸
9. 小人物
10. 马铃薯植物

n.(名词)

1. [C][U]马铃薯,土豆 a roundish root vegetable with a thin brown or yellowish skin, that is cooked and served in many different ways
2. [C]小人物 people of no importance

Noun:

1. an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland

2. annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous

1.马铃薯；土豆
potatoes are quite round vegetables with brown or red skins and white insides. They grow under the ground.

potato

2.棘手的问题；烫手山芋；意见不一的复杂问题
You can refer to a difficult subject that people disagree on as ahot potato .

e.g. ...a political hotpotato such as abortion.
类似堕胎这样政治上的烫手山芋

1.

1. 马铃薯：shallot red onion white onion yellow onion 马铃薯 (potato) 马铃薯 (potato) 马铃薯又叫做土豆,山药蛋,洋芋,地蛋,荷兰薯,茄科茄属,一 年生蔓性草本植物,原产南美智秘 鲁和玻利维亚的安 第斯山区,有 8000 年的栽培历史.

2. 马铃薯,土豆：sir 先生 |potato 马铃薯,土豆 | glasses 眼镜(复数)

The potato is a vegetable, not a fruit.

马铃薯是一种蔬菜，不是一种水果。

This salad is made of apple, pear, potato and celery.

这份色拉是由苹果、梨、土豆和芹菜做成的。

I like to cook dishes with potatoes.

我喜欢用马铃薯炒菜。

Would you like more mashed potato?

在来点马铃薯泥好吗？

Stick the fork into the potato.

用叉子插土豆。

For the first time he enjoyed a roast potato.

他第一次享受到烤土豆的味道。

Will you peel the potatoes for me?

你给我削土豆皮好不好？

roast'/boiled'/baked'/fried potatoes

烘 / 煮 / 烤 / 炸土豆

...a political hot potato such as abortion.

类似堕胎这样政治上的烫手山芋

Application: suitable for brittle material, potato chips, crispy rice, apple, jelly, etc.

适用范围: 适合于易碎物料:薯片, 锅巴, 苹果片, 果冻等.

They had potato chips, fizzy drinks and chocolate at the party.

他们为派对准备了薯片, 汽水和巧克力.

I'll have a baked potato, green beans and an egg salad.

要一份烤土豆片, 青豆和一份鸡蛋色拉.

Around 1850, a terrible disease hit the potato crop and potato went bad in the soil.

大约在1850年, 土豆作物发生了一场可怕的病害,土豆全都烂在地里了.

I got the minister on the ear with a potato.

我用土豆打中了部长的耳朵.

Throw the potato peelings on the compost heap.

把土豆皮扔到肥料堆上.

The potato is a tuber plant.

马铃薯是块茎植物.

After a few years'planting, the quality of the potato crop deteriorates.

土豆种了几年之后就会退化.

potato chips are served for the children.

给儿童端上了炸薯条.

He beat the potato into a mash before eating it.

他把马铃薯捣烂后再吃.

Just one scoop of mashed potato for me, please.

请给我盛一勺土豆泥.

Many school boards found segregation a hot potato in the early 1960 s.

在60年代初,许多学校部门都觉得按水平分班是一个棘手的问题.

The potato crop was rather scanty this year.

今年土豆歉收.

The potato is indigenous to South America.

土豆产于南美.

a baked potato and beans

一份烤土豆加烘豆

two scoops of mashed potato

两勺土豆泥

The potato cakes should be crisp outside and meltingly soft inside.

土豆饼应该外面酥脆,里面嫩软.

Now experts are extolling the virtues of the humble potato.

现在专家们都在赞美其貌不扬的马铃薯的种种好处。

Put both vegetables into a bowl and crush with a potato masher.

把这两样蔬菜都放进一个碗里，然后用捣土豆器把它们捣碎。

The fries are made from pellets of pulverised potato.

这些炸土豆是土豆泥球做成的。

Visitors were roped in for potato picking and harvesting.

参观者们被说动来帮忙挖土豆和收土豆。

Work in the potato and milk until the mixture comes together.

把土豆和牛奶掺进去，直到混合物融合在一起为止。

I went and bought about six dollars' worth of potato chips.

我去买了大约6美元的薯条。

The cooking time needed depends on the size of the potato.

所需的烹饪时间取决于土豆的大小。

How do you spell 'potato'?

potato这个词怎么拼写？

1. A potato consists mainly of starch.
   马铃薯的主要成分是淀粉。
2. Eastern Brazilians lean more heavily on the sweet potato.
   巴西东部人主要靠白薯为生。
3. potato can be prepared in many ways.
   马铃薯可用许多方法烧煮。
4. Please cook the potatoes quickly with their skins on.
   请把土豆连皮快速煮一下。
5. My brother likes potatoes very much, but I don't care for them.
   我弟弟很喜欢吃土豆,可我不喜欢。
6. The children helped their parents to dig up potatoes.
   孩子们帮他们的父母挖土豆。
7. We grow a variety of crops, including cabbages, wheat and potatoes.
   我们种各种农作物,包括卷心菜、小麦和土豆。
8. He sat down and at once dived into a pile of potatoes.
   他一坐下就啃起一堆土豆来。
9. There's no meat in the house, so we'll just have to make do with potatoes.
   家里没肉,所以我们只得凑合着吃土豆了。
10. The drought makes the potato crop very small this year.
    干旱使今年的马铃薯收成很少。
11. They are small potatoes.
    他们是些微不足道的人。
12. They are big shots; we are small potatoes.
    他们是大人物,我们是小卒子。
13. The teacher thought little of the matter because he considered it a small potato.
    老师没把这事当回事,认为它无足轻重。

hot potato

棘手的人〔问题〕 sb/sth that it is risky to be involved with

动词+～

• potato">bake potato烤土豆
• potato">boil potato煮土豆
• potato">dig up potato挖土豆
• potato">eat potato吃土豆
• potato">fry potato炸土豆
• potato">grow potato种植土豆
• potato">mash potato将土豆捣成泥状
• potato">pare potato削土豆皮
• potato">peel potato削土豆皮

形容词+～

• potato">big potato大土豆,大人物
• potato">chipped potato切成薄片的土豆,〈英〉炸薯条
• potato">clean potato最好的事物,最适当的东西
• potato">French-fried potato〈美〉炸薯条
• potato">fried potato油炸土豆
• potato">hot potato棘手的问题
• potato">mashed potato土豆泥
• potato">small potato小土豆,小人物
• potato">sweet potato白薯,红薯,地瓜,甘薯
• potato">underdone potato半生不熟的土豆

～+名词

• potato%20patch">potato patch小块马铃薯地
• potato%20soup">potato soup土豆汤

n.(名词)

1. potato的意思是“马铃薯,土豆”,可用作不可数名词,也可用作可数名词。用于比喻可作“微不足道的人或物”解。

• ☆ 直接源自西班牙语的patata，意为土豆。