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diet

/dahy-it/US // ˈdaɪ ɪt //UK // (ˈdaɪət) //

饮食,节食,饮食方面,饮食疗法

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health: Milk is a wholesome article of diet.
    • : a particular selection of food, especially as designed or prescribed to improve a person's physical condition or to prevent or treat a disease: a diet low in sugar.
    • : such a selection or a limitation on the amount a person eats for reducing weight: No pie for me, I'm on a diet.
    • : the foods eaten, as by a particular person or group: The native diet consists of fish and fruit.
    • : food or feed habitually eaten or provided: The rabbits were fed a diet of carrots and lettuce.
    • : anything that is habitually provided or partaken of: Television has given us a steady diet of game shows and soap operas.
v.有主动词 verb
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    di·et·ed, di·et·ing.

    • : to regulate the food of, especially in order to improve the physical condition.
    • : to feed.
v.无主动词 verb
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    di·et·ed, di·et·ing.

    • : to select or limit the food one eats to improve one's physical condition or to lose weight: I've dieted all month and lost only one pound.
    • : to eat or feed according to the requirements of a diet.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : suitable for consumption with a weight-reduction diet; dietetic: diet soft drinks.

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Examples

  • He trains like a professional athlete in any other sport, with early-morning gym sessions, a diet of healthful foods and all-day practice.

  • Rather than revamp the industry, these critics suggest alternatives such as meat-free diets to fulfill our need for protein.

  • In some cases, bacteria could even use these electrons to fuel growth in much the same way that humans use electrons from carbohydrates in the diet for energy.

  • As a snapshot of the dino’s diet, the gut contents “can tell us more about dinosaur behavior,” Chin says.

  • Some of the data that scientists have about dinosaur diets comes from coprolites.

  • Park employees helped John quit tobacco by way of a butts-proof glass enclosure, a drastic change in diet, and regular exercise.

  • There was also the grapefruit diet, the cabbage soup diet, and the cookie diet.

  • Still other people have moved away from the word “diet” altogether.

  • Limbaugh makes comments like this because his right-wing fans require a non–stop diet of race-baiting red meat.

  • “Butter has always been a healthy part of the diet in almost every culture; butter is a traditional food,” Asprey says.

  • Excretion of these substances is greatly increased by a diet rich in nuclei, as sweetbreads and liver.

  • I'm not enamored of a straight meat diet as a rule, but that evening I was in no mood to carp at anything half-way eatable.

  • The stools of infants are yellow, owing partly to their milk diet and partly to the presence of unchanged bilirubin.

  • The poor fellow's health so gave way under this meagre diet, that he died before his course of study was finished.

  • "I don't suppose any Frenchman is given to cannibalistic diet," he answered, smiling.