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poached

/pohch/US // poʊtʃ //UK // (pəʊtʃ) //

水煮的,煮熟的,水煮,水煮鱼

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to trespass, especially on another's game preserve, in order to steal animals or to hunt.
    • : to take game or fish illegally.
    • : to become broken up or slushy by being trampled.
    • : to play a ball hit into the territory of one's partner that is properly the partner's ball to play.
    • : Informal. to cheat in a game or contest.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to trespass on, especially in order to hunt or fish.
    • : to steal from another's property.
    • : to take without permission and use as one's own: to poach ideas; a staff poached from other companies.
    • : to break or tear up by trampling.
    • : to mix with water and reduce to a uniform consistency, as clay.

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Examples

  • When I’ve made this dessert, I usually reduce the liquid I've used to poach the pears down a bit, so it becomes a rich syrup to pour over the pears and ice cream.

  • The first community-led project, called Human Presence Detection, will alert park rangers of poaching risk using audio sampling to detect human presence in areas where humans are not supposed to be.

  • Barber got her first taste of the startup world when she was poached from McKinsey to join one of the several online pet supply stores that cropped up in 1999.

  • As the mix bubbles over an open burner, small shrimp are tossed in to cook for a few minutes before an egg is quickly poached or scrambled in the brew.

  • Lobster poached in butter and arranged with fennel puree and baby carrots is delicious if routine.

  • Last year, rhinos were killed at a rate of three per day—astonishing when compared to the six total rhinos poached in 2000.

  • They are poached instead of hard-boiled, boasting anti-heroes with nihilistic worldviews who are nevertheless vulnerable.

  • If elephant, rhino, and other African wildlife are poached to extinction, tourism will dry up.

  • Mired in scandal, the Vatican poached an American Fox News journalist to handle communications.

  • Both are being mercilessly and illegally poached at a rate not seen for decades.

  • Sift the whole through a fine cloth and add the yolks of a hundred poached eggs.

  • By-and-by the coffee, the rolls and butter, and the poached eggs appeared.

  • This morning I was really ill at last; had hardly any breakfast; simply couldn't look a poached in the yolk.

  • For instance, eggs should not be cooked at a higher temperature in making desserts than when they are being poached.

  • Her lamps had a wistful look—a look as innocent and helpless as that with which poached eggs gaze up at you before they die.