oat

英 [??t] 美[ot]

暢通詞匯

1. 反向記憶，要學會反向記憶：boat => 船上裝滿了燕麥。=> oat.

oat 燕麥

來自古英語ate,燕麥粒，野燕麥。

oat (n.): Old English ate (plural atan) "grain of the oat plant, wild oats," of uncertain origin, possibly from Old Norse eitill "nodule," denoting a single grain, of unknown origin. The English word has cognates in Frisian and some Dutch dialects. Famously defined by Johnson as, "A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people."

The usual Germanic name is derived from Proto-Germanic *khabran (cognates: Old Norse hafri, Dutch haver, source of haversack). Wild oats, "crop that one will regret sowing," is first attested 1560s, in reference to the folly of sowing these instead of good grain.
That wilfull and vnruly age, which lacketh rypenes and discretion, and (as wee saye) hath not sowed all theyr wyeld Oates. [Thomas Newton, "Lemnie's Touchstone of complexions," 1576]

Fred: I still want to sow some wild oats!
Lamont: At your age, you don't have no wild oats, you got shredded wheat.
["Sanford and Son"]
Hence, to feel (one's) oats "be lively," 1831, originally American English.

1. Oat bran became the darling of health freaks last year.: 燕麥麩在去年成為保健狂人的最愛。

2. Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat.: 地中海地區燕麥,被認為是現代栽種燕麥的祖先.

3. Many people experienced a drop in their cholesterol levels when they consumed oat bran.: 很多人食用燕麥麩后膽固醇水平下降了。

4. Went showed that this active agent diffused into gelatin from living oat coleoptile tips.: 溫特證明,這種活性物質從活的燕麥胚芽鞘擴散到凝膠中去.

5. Fluctuations in temperatures put their results oat by a mile.: 由于溫度起伏不定,他們的測驗結果很不準確.