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pantry

/pan-tree/US // ˈpæn tri //UK // (ˈpæntrɪ) //

茶水间,茶室,食物柜,盘点

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pan·tries.

    • : a room or closet in which food, groceries, and other provisions, or silverware, dishes, etc., are kept.
    • : a room between the kitchen and dining room in which food is arranged for serving, glassware and dishes are stored, etc.
    • : Also called food pantry. a shelter or other place where food is dispensed to the needy, either as groceries or as meals.

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Examples

  • The rice cakes in my childhood pantry came from Quaker, but at the time there were several different companies competing in what the Chicago Tribune referred to as a “rice cake revolution” in 1986.

  • Anyone who has been cooking and recooking the same simple meals from pantry staples during the pandemic will understand the quest for the platonic ideal of gruel.

  • This is best to find out when you have a stocked pantry at your disposal.

  • Advocates have little hope the federal government will help, while state and local governments are strapped for cash and food pantries are being strained.

  • I think what’s happened is, we are moving inventory from warehouses and grocery stores into our pantries and our refrigerators.

  • Parents can stock the pantry with healthy items for breakfast and dinner, but lunch is largely out of their hands.

  • While Nutella is a relatively new product for American consumers, it has lined European pantry shelves for decades.

  • At the corner store or in the medicine cabinet or next to the bread in the pantry—all seem closer at hand than black market pot.

  • He began as a pantry worker in 1952, and was promoted to butler years later.

  • In fairness, Sabbath (unlike Portnoy) does have the decency to leave the meat pantry untouched.

  • Besides, with these three hungry visiting children, the addition to her pantry stores would be very timely.

  • Behind the veranda three small rooms served for sleeping-room, kitchen, and pantry.

  • Here the pantry imitated the parlor, for the academician's mistress was the great lady herself.

  • The crickets chirped merrily upon the hearth of the housemaid's pantry, where the remains of a fire still smouldered.

  • Then he walked straight to the pantry window, and shading his eyes with his hands, carefully took stock of the interior.