vegetable

noun

1. 蔬菜
   a plant or part of a plant that is eaten as food. Potatoes, beans and onions are all vegetables .
   1. green vegetables (= for example cabbage )
      绿色蔬菜
   2. root vegetables (= for example carrots )
      块根蔬菜
   3. a salad of raw vegetables
      生菜色拉
   4. a vegetable garden/patch/plot
      菜园 / 畦 / 地
   5. vegetable matter (= plants in general)
      植物质
2. 植物人
   a person who is physically alive but not capable of much mental or physical activity, for example because of an accident or illness
   1. Severe brain damage turned him into a vegetable.
      严重的脑损伤使他变成了植物人。
3. 生活单调乏味的人
   a person who has a boring life
   1. Since losing my job I've been a vegetable.
      失业以来我感到百无聊赖。

1. N-COUNT 蔬菜
   Vegetables are plants such as cabbages, potatoes, and onions which you can cook and eat.
   1. A good general diet should include plenty of fresh vegetables.
      良好的日常饮食应该包含大量的新鲜蔬菜。
   2. ...traditional Caribbean fruit and vegetables.
      加勒比地区传统的水果和蔬菜
   3. ...vegetable soup.
      蔬菜汤
2. ADJ 蔬菜的;植物的
   Vegetable matter comes from plants.
   1. ...compounds, of animal, vegetable or mineral origin.
      动物源性、植物源性或矿物源性的化合物
   2. ...decayed vegetable matter.
      腐烂的植物质
3. 植物人
   If someone refers to a brain-damaged person as a vegetable, they mean that the person cannot move, think, or speak.

1. On his right was a thriving vegetable garden and beyond it a small orchard of apple trees.
   他右边是一个生机勃勃的菜园，菜园的另一边是一个小小的苹果园。
2. Pour the vegetable oil into a frying pan to a depth of about 1cm
   往平底煎锅里倒入约1厘米深的植物油。
3. In that part of the world you can feed cattle on almost any green vegetable or fruit
   在那个地方，几乎任何绿色蔬菜或水果都可以给牛吃。
4. They feed mostly on decaying vegetable matter.
   它们大多以腐烂的蔬菜为食。
5. Recently much of their energy has gone into planting a large vegetable garden.
   最近他们把很多精力投在种植大菜园上了。
6. The bottom of the garden was given over to vegetable plots.
   花园的尽头留作了菜地。
7. This versatile vegetable can be eaten raw or cooked
   这种蔬菜有多种吃法，既可生吃也可烹调后食用。
8. Cook each vegetable separately until just tender
   每样蔬菜都单独烹调，煮到稍稍变软就好。
9. 'Why, this is nothing but common vegetable soup!' — 'So it is, madam.'
   “怎么回事，这只是普普通通的蔬菜汤！”——“夫人，确实如此。”
10. Cheese can be sprinkled on egg or vegetable dishes.
    奶酪可以撒在鸡蛋或蔬菜做的菜肴上。
11. They are stirring huge pots of rice and thin vegetable soup over a fire made of charcoal.
    他们搅动着架在木炭火堆上的大罐米饭和蔬菜清汤。
12. A good general diet should include plenty of fresh vegetables.
    良好的日常饮食应该包含大量的新鲜蔬菜。
13. Why, this is nothing but common vegetable soup
    啊，这只不过是普通的蔬菜汤而已。
14. Animal and vegetable pests propagate with extreme rapidity.
    动植物病害传播极快。
15. There are green and lush vegetable plots [ beds] in our vicinity.
    我们住所周围一片绿油油的菜地。
16. All around the village are vegetable fields.
    村子四围都是菜地。
17. The giant cactus is the vegetable skycraper.
    高大的仙人掌是植物界巨人。
18. Don't mix up the two kinds of vegetable seeds.
    别把这两种菜籽搀杂在一起。
19. The land is cultivated with rice, cotton and vegetable.
    地里种着水稻、棉花和蔬菜。
20. How many crops can this vegetable plot produce a year?
    这块菜地一年种几茬？
21. Meat stays in the guts longer than vegetable matter.
    肉类在肠中停留的时间比蔬菜长。
22. A great variety of animals nourish themselves on vegetable foods.
    绝大多数动物是食草的。
23. Vegetable fern is a type of wild growing fern.
    本地称为“巴咕菜”是一种野生蕨菜。
24. After the accident he began to lead a vegetable life.
    从那次事故后，他开始过植物人的生活。
25. The sheep keep wandering into the vegetable field so we shall have to fence them out.
    羊不断地往菜地里跑，我们得用栅栏把它们拦在外面。
26. Spinach is a leafy vegetable.
    菠菜是阔叶蔬菜。
27. The nuts are pressed for their vegetable oil, which ends up as margarine.
    从核桃中榨出的植物油，最后成为人造黄油。
28. Severe brain damage turned him into a vegetable.
    他因脑部受重伤而成了植物人。
29. It rained so much last year that half the vegetable crops damped off.
    去年雨水过多，一半蔬菜都泡烂了。
30. One year the man in my life and I had a vegetable garden.
    一年男子在我的生活和我进行了菜园。

noun

1. edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

   Synonym:    veggieveg

2. any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower