stale
- IPA[stāl]
美式
- (of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry；no longer new and interesting or exciting
- make or become stale
verb: stale, 3rd person present: stales, gerund or present participle: staling, past tense: staled, past participle: staled
- 釋義
形容詞
- 1. (of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry stale bread 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ no longer new and interesting or exciting their marriage had gone stale 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ (of a person) no longer able to perform well or creatively because of having done something for too long a top executive tends to get stale
- ▪ (of a check or legal claim) invalid because out of date justifications for adverse possession go beyond stale claims
動詞
- 1. make or become stale she would cut up yesterday's leftover bread, staling now
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- IPA[steɪl]
英式
- (of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry: stale bread
- make or become stale: she would cut up yesterday's leftover bread, staling now
Oxford Dictionary
- IPA[stāl]
美式
- (of an animal, especially a horse) urinate: the horse staled while he was riding
Oxford American Dictionary
- IPA[steɪl]
英式
- (of an animal, especially a horse) urinate: the horse staled while he was riding
Oxford Dictionary
知識+
英文翻譯，if stale
if stale, stale是動詞的話， 應該和前面 regarded 一致， 為 staled 因為沒有表示出時態，所以它是形容詞，而省略了if ( it was) stale. it 指的是marriage 大部份時候Melanie認為她父母的婚姻有如固體般穩固，即使它己經陳舊
請問食物"過期"的英文怎麼說???????????
過期的食物＝stale food 過期＝to get/go stale Wrap the bread up well or it'll go stale...
不新鮮的英文
stale 這字相當不錯比not freah 好多了(問英文老師的)