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fodder

/fod-er/US // ˈfɒd ər //UK // (ˈfɒdə) //

草料,饲料,刍秣,刍狗

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : coarse food for livestock, composed of entire plants, including leaves, stalks, and grain, of such forages as corn and sorghum.
    • : people considered as readily available and of little value: cannon fodder.
    • : raw material: fodder for a comedian's routine.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to feed with or as if with fodder.

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Examples

  • Epidemiological concepts like “herd immunity” and “aerosol transmission” are now fodder for casual conversations.

  • That’d be fodder for bears like David Einhorn, who called an “enormous” bubble in tech stocks and said his firm has added bearish wagers.

  • So all that said, Briggs is clearly the underdog but Mara has given him a lot of fodder and it has helped him string together a network of her critics that may cause the night to be closer than we all would have thought.

  • The mystery of that leak was great fodder for conspiracy theorists, but the fact that the hole was accidentally made by a drill was lucky.

  • So I think policy disputes aren’t likely to become big fodder.

  • This video should give Disney enough fodder to create an action-packed Dumbo/Lion King crossover sequel.

  • On the downside, it rewards them with fodder for nightmares.

  • We Americans, as the postmodern conservative professor Peter Lawler has put it, refuse to see ourselves as mere "history fodder."

  • There is a long history of the mammary glands as comedy fodder.

  • So, after toiling away for two decades, Elba has finally crossed over from critically acclaimed actor to bona fide tabloid fodder.

  • He shall give his mind to turn up furrows, and his care is to give the kine fodder.

  • Many of the inhabitants came out of their houses and gave it fodder, and every passer-by turned out of the way for it.

  • Clover, lucerne, ryegrass and similar grasses have been introduced to improve and vary the fodder.

  • Millet and rice are the staple crops; the former furnishing food both for man and beast, for its long stalks are excellent fodder.

  • Praise the liberal Maruts, and may they delight on the path of this man here who praises them, like cows in fodder.