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sap

/sap/US // sæp //UK // (sæp) //

汁液,汁水,肥皂水,肥皂

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant, especially of a woody plant.
    • : any vital body fluid.
    • : energy; vitality.
    • : sapwood.
    • : Slang. a fool; dupe.
    • : Metallurgy. soft metal at the core of a bar of blister steel.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sapped, sap·ping.

    • : to drain the sap from.

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Examples

  • It will take 30 to 50 quarts of sap to produce one quart of syrup, but it’s well worth the trouble.

  • Sugar maple sap has one of the highest sugar concentrations of the maples.

  • If your test comes out okay, you can apply these instructions to removing sap from your walkway.

  • “The milky sap is not dangerous to the touch and is a plant adaptation to trap small insects that are feeding on the plant itself,” said my friend Ben Hoksch, a Monarch researcher and wild food instructor in Ames, Iowa.

  • Bridgewater staff have learned to protect their chairs from falling tree sap, and replaced their screens and webcams with weather-resistant versions after the original ones failed within a couple of weeks of outdoor exposure.

  • Anybody with any sap running will probably be out of step with the general parade, at least early on.

  • Like a picador, he takes his time to sap the strength of his foes before clubbing them unconscious.

  • An increase in the dividend tax rate is likely to sap the value of stocks whose main appeal is the dividends they throw off.

  • Put another way, the termination of these benefits will sap $30 billion from the buying power of lower-income American consumers.

  • AQAP wants to drag America into what it calls another “bleeding war” like Afghanistan and Iraq to sap American resources and will.

  • All this bubbling of sap and slipping of sheaths and bursting of calyxes was carried to her on mingled currents of fragrance.

  • “You would sap the very source of human happiness and enterprise,” Professor Fortescue asserted, fantastically.

  • But now the sap and the strength flow again within me,—now I am young once more.

  • Let the unopened leaves, cut from the stalk, stand in a cool shady place several days, until the sap has well run.

  • Spring stole into the heart of the Wabash country and the sap sang again in maples and elms.