Definition of fat in English:

fat

nounPlural fats fatfæt

1mass noun A natural oily substance occurring in animal bodies, especially when deposited as a layer under the skin or around certain organs.
脂肪；肥肉
whales and seals insulate themselves with layers of fat
Example sentencesExamples
- The changes are expected to enable the method to provide accurate readings that are unaffected by skin color or body fat.
- Fry over a medium heat until the fat runs and the bacon turns golden at the edges.
- When I went from a girl's body to a woman's body with natural fat in places, I freaked out.
- Not much hair, we don't hibernate, and only in the age of super-sizing have we learned to put on a truly impressive layer of body fat.
- Insulin resistance correlates with visceral fat measured by waist circumference or waist to hip ratio.
- But a friend said I would burn more fat by doing strength training before cardio.
- With a very sharp knife, score the fat of the lamb, creating a crisscross pattern.
- Your body has learned to use it sparingly as it relies heavily on fat for fuel.
- Just beneath the surface of the skin is a thin layer of subcutaneous fat.
- By late adolescence, girls have twice the body fat of boys, and boys have one-third greater muscle mass than girls.
- Trim the fat from meat and poultry, says Potter, because pesticides and other additives concentrate there.
- Sauté the bacon in a large frying pan until browned and the fat starts to run.
- Bacon without all the fat, rind, and, er, flavour.
- Hydroxycut can also help you burn stored fat for energy while sparing your precious muscle.
- To lose body fat, you should eat fewer calories and increase your exercise.
- One simple rule is to trim all excess fat from meat.
- Jan remembers eating bacon fat as a savoury spread instead of butter on bread.
- This outer layer of body fat provides insulation from low temperatures.
- At the same time, it stalls the metabolic processes that burn fat for fuel.
- And she praised the television advert with fat dripping from a cigarette end as a group of friends smoke in a pub.
Synonyms
fatty tissue, fat cells, blubber, adipose tissue
1. 1.1 A fatty substance made from animal or plant products, used in cooking.
  （烹饪用的动物或植物）脂油
  sizzling fat
  count noun a diet high in animal fats
  Example sentencesExamples
  Melt the dripping or fat in a frying pan and add the onion.
  Tesco and Waitrose have also promised to cut the use of such fats in own-brand food.
  Who would decide what constituted an unnecessary level of fat in various foods.
  He now operates from a van in the Hull area, filtering and cleaning catering cooking fat at hospitals, universities and schools.
  I took no sugar, no butter and no other cooking fat of any sort because to get these rare commodities I would have had to ask Stewart to give me some.
  Instead, I just soaked fruits directly in liquors, without adding sugar or fat, which is what I used to do before.
  Whenever possible I cook from scratch, using fresh and organic ingredients, keeping animal fat, sugar and salt to a minimum
  A tablespoon of fat - butter, bacon grease, mild oil - is gently warmed in a small, trustworthy skillet.
  Under the new rules, how does one dispose of cooking oil and fat?
  Butter has a lower melting point than hard white fats such as lard and hardened vegetable cooking fat.
  When the skillet is hot, add enough oil or other cooking fat to thinly coat the bottom of the pan.
  Cheaper chocolate contains some animal or vegetable fat.
  Pour a thin layer of oil or melt a couple of large tablespoons of dripping or fat in another roasting tin on top of the stove until smoking hot.
  Most high-fat equine foods use an animal fat high in saturated fats rather than vegetable oils.
  We are working with manufacturers and suppliers to lower sugar, salt and fat in ingredients.
  That being done, the flesh was raked into small shreds and blended with the warm cooking fat to form a rustic paste.
  According to respected gerontologist Kazuhiko Taira, the most common cooking fat used traditionally in Okinawa is lard.
  Two pieces of unrecognisable chicken coated in artificial breadcrumbs and deep fried in greasy fat coming up.
  He placed the meat in the bottom of the pot along with a little bit of cooking fat.
  The fire had started accidentally when fat from the chip pan caught alight.
  Synonyms
  cooking oil, animal fat, vegetable fat, grease
  lard, suet, butter, margarine
2. 1.2 The presence of excess fat in a person or animal.
  he was a tall man, running to fat
  他个子高，而且在快速发胖。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A survey shows that these people are more vulnerable to diseases linked to excessive fat.
  Aim to keep your pulse rate between 65 and 75 per cent at first, as this will help to burn any excess fat as well as increasing your cardio-vascular fitness.
  I could hear the hard breathing of Senor Nunez across from me and could almost see in my mind's eye his nasal passages, suffocated by the large amounts of unnecessary fat in his face and throat.
  Better diets are allowing people to grow stronger than in the 1950s, but much of the extra calorie intake is turning to fat, leading to bulkier waistlines.
  People who carry more weight around their waistlines are at greater health risks than individuals who carry their excess fat in the hips and thighs.
  The zoo said that the adoption of the practice is also aimed at helping the big cats reduce excessive fat.
  You decided to get healthy, put on muscle and maybe lose a few pounds of excess fat.
  He acknowledged that eating clean played a major role in ridding fat in the area and helping his abs show through.
  Researchers say those with excess fat around the stomach - the so-called apple shape - are also less healthy than full-figured women.
  Losing just a few pounds of excess fat will go a long way toward improving your health.
  Research among 38,000 adults found the average man is now an ‘apple’ shape - meaning they carry excess fat on their waist.
  As you gain strength, lose excess fat, and begin to look better in your clothes, revel in it.
  Many active people are curious about their body composition and wonder what percent of their weight is excess fat.
  He was six foot one, and he never went to fat the way a lot of other policemen did.
  These supplements should be mainstays for any guy looking to add bulk while keeping off fat.
  You don't necessarily lose your powers if you're grey or turning to fat.
  The presence of excess fat in the abdomen is an independent predictor of risk factors and mortality.
  He was one of those fortunate athletes who, although very strongly built, never tended to run to fat.
  Carrying excess fat around the stomach, being ‘apple shaped’, is already known to be potentially damaging to health.
  I can even afford to carry excess fat, having had more than enough to eat in recent months and years.
  Synonyms
  fatness, plumpness, stoutness, heaviness, chubbiness, tubbiness, portliness, rotundity, podginess, flabbiness, bulk, excessive weight
  obesity, corpulence, grossness
  paunch, pot belly, beer belly, beer gut
  informal flab, blubber, beef
2Chemistry
Any of a group of natural esters of glycerol and various fatty acids, which are solid at room temperature and are the main constituents of animal and vegetable fat.
〔化〕（天然）油脂，脂肪酸。比较OIL
some 40 per cent of our daily calories are derived from dietary fats
Compare with oil
Example sentencesExamples
- Olive oil is very low in saturated fats and loaded with healthy monounsaturated fats, so choose it over others.
- The 12-ounce bowl contains 25 g protein and only 7 g fat.
- The energy that every body needs is derived from carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.
- For various reasons, those foods rich in saturated fat offer compensations in a bleak world.
- Whole-wheat foods also contain high levels of healthy monounsaturated fats, protein and B vitamin.
- Though cashews are not technically nuts (they're seeds), they are high in heart healthy monounsaturated fat.
- Sucrose is also the basic plant biochemical building block, and can be converted to proteins, fats, and organic acids.
- In an effort to be just a little healthier, we're opting for a peanut butter without hydrogenated fat.
- Similarly the more polyunsaturated fat in a product, the more tocopherol it will need to contain.
- I thought triglycerides were fats, so shouldn't he avoid fats?

adjectivefattest, fatter fatfæt

1(of a person or animal) having a large amount of excess flesh.
（人，动物）肥胖的
the driver was a fat wheezing man
司机是个气喘吁吁的大胖子。
Example sentencesExamples
- I've been visiting a few suburban areas in our country over the last month and have to say that I'm shocked at how disgustingly fat people have become.
- I opened the door and came face to face with a fat janitor smoking a cigarette and operating an extraordinarily loud vacuum.
- I don't know how I can look at my stupid, fat bulk in the mirror every day.
- Everyday, I see people not much older than me, fat and enslaved to cigarettes and/or alcohol struggling to get on/off a bus let alone walking somewhere.
- Your eyes flash all round the platform to see if there are any hugely fat people you can hide behind - has he seen you yet?
- I ate 20 nuggets and a chicken sandwich meal and Rob kept on throwing things at me and calling me a fat pig.
- Go on a diet with your pet - if you have a fat dog at home, like we do.
- She was about Hanna's age and looked nice and friendly: short, a little plump but not fat, with long red hair and freckled face.
- The link between the daily traffic jams outside schools and the bored, fat teenagers in the people carriers seemed to escape the members of the obesity taskforce.
- I'm sitting at the library across from a very skinny woman and I'm thinking about how fat I am.
- The same white-and-orange hamster, named Honey, resided in a small cage cleaned out once a week and had grown so fat that she could hardly squeeze through cardboard tubes.
- He was 67, so fat that he could hardly walk, gluttonous, in ill health and within eight months of death.
- She was sitting between a fat man who wheezed a lot and a woman who definitely overdid the perfume.
- He was a large, plump man with a fat gut hanging over his belt.
- Sows are too fat upon entering the farrowing house.
- Shell makes an interesting point about very fat people: in order to carry that enormous extra weight around with them, they have much more powerful muscles than less fat people do.
- She was only plump, not fat, but in those girls' eyes, she was a whale.
- The case against fat proceeds on the assumption that if a fat person becomes thin, that person will acquire the health characteristics of people who were thin in the first place.
- Cue whinge after whinge after pitiful whinge about how fat she thinks she is, and how much weight she must have put on since entering the house.
- Despite the ‘real’ people portrayed, I've yet to see a fat person on board or someone with bad hygiene.
Synonyms
plump, stout, overweight, heavy, large, solid, chubby, portly, rotund, flabby, paunchy, pot-bellied, beer-bellied, dumpy, meaty, broad in the beam, of ample proportions, Falstaffian
buxom
obese, morbidly obese, corpulent, bloated, gross, gargantuan, elephantine
fleshy
informal tubby, roly-poly, beefy, porky, blubbery, poddy, chunky, well padded, well covered, well upholstered
British informal podgy, fubsy
North American informal lard-assed
Scottish literary sonsy
rare pursy, abdominous
1. 1.1 (of an animal bred for food) made plump for slaughter.
  （为食用而饲养的动物）育肥的
  Example sentencesExamples
  The market re-opened for the sale of fat cattle and sheep.
  In York Cattle Market the following week there would be one of the biggest auction sales of fat pigs since before the war.
  While fat cow and bull prices are still weak, feeder cattle prices are strong.
  The limit of his agrarian radicalism was a demand, conceded by the British, for the removal of differential between Irish fat cattle and animals fattened in Britain.
  We had 2,225 fat sheep on Tuesday and the best lambs made up to 145p/kilo.
2. 1.2 Containing much fat.
  油腻的；肥的
  fat bacon
  油腻的熏咸肉。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The stuffing was seasoned with salt and the bird coated with flour and strips of fat bacon and then roasted in the black oven pot with coals on the lid to maintain an even temperature.
  But it is also about three fat rashers of Gloucester Old Spot bacon on thick white bread with ketchup.
  Use 3 rashers of smoked, fat, streaky bacon with the rind taken off.
  Use thin cut smoked streaky bacon as fat as you can get it.
  Synonyms
  fatty, greasy, oily, oleaginous, unctuous
  formal pinguid, adipose, sebaceous
3. 1.3 (of coal) containing a high proportion of volatile oils.
  （煤）肥的（指挥发油含量高）
2Large in bulk or circumference.
体积大的；粗的
a fat cigarette
粗支香烟。
Example sentencesExamples
- Last year, Arthritis New Zealand ran billboards featuring a middle-aged woman sucking on a fat marijuana cigarette.
- It's a bar where you can enjoy good company, a fat cigar, a dainty cigarette and a glass of fine red.
- But you don't need to be a criminal mastermind to target our rather fat and sluggish financial institutions.
- Yet the questions remain: Are clean lungs and a fatter wallet worth my sanity?
- Eventually he would come up, sit down, then carefully roll himself a fat, untidy cigarette, spilling some tobacco in the process.
- She selected a very fat cigarette which she lit with a petrol lighter, and grinned as it issued a rich sweet-smelling odour.
- We sought refuge in the comfort of pipes, nursery food, big fat armchairs in stuffy, overheated rooms and low-risk jobs for life.
- The force of fat raindrops hitting my head was hard enough to make me wince.
- Peer over your plate to see the deft hands of prep chef Samuel Ramirez shape cornmeal-molasses dough into fat hamburger buns.
- In order to attend you need not just a fat wallet but the right connections.
- And then there is a guy smoking a fat cigarette that surely contains less tobacco than greenery.
- With a mid-engined layout, a fat tyre at each corner and your own bulk almost as low as it can go, the weight distribution is perfect, and the handling truly sublime.
- She then turned back and a female friend leaned down, took what appeared to be a fat, hand-rolled cigarette and lit it.
- Sometimes the balance teeters in one direction, but mostly I try to even things out by eating a salad on a day after eating a big fat steak with bacon.
- The risotto turned out to be excellent and very well seasoned, with its fat grains of al dente rice and its large chunks of tasty mushrooms.
Synonyms
thick, big, chunky, substantial, extended, long
1. 2.1informal (especially in the context of financial reward) substantial.
  a fat profit
  丰厚的利润。
  a fat cheque
  Example sentencesExamples
  For years, Hong Kong's developers - owners of some of the most expensive real estate in the world - have enjoyed fat profit margins.
  He is not the first person to be sacked for missing targets and to walk out with a fat cheque, but what the bankers really disliked was the cut of his jib.
  And even if they do not form the next Government, they stand to receive fat pension cheques whilst they continue to work and earn.
  I'm just glad Rob didn't win (though he's got his hands on the money via matrimony anyway), and that Rupert got a nice fat cheque.
  A company making big league profits and paying fat dividends to shareholders should be ashamed of its insulting pay offer to the people who actually do the work.
  While they are buying well-known brand names and waiting for prestige and fat profits to result, they tend to forget the major difference between home and abroad.
  So what happens to your big fat pension fund in these circumstances?
  The fat profits in the sector have driven the number of developers to 30,000 from 4,200 in 1991.
  Fat reduction brought fat times for much of the food industry in the early 1990s, helping to spawn such megabrands as Healthy Choice.
  All my children have spent time in excellent examples of both, but I have to say I find nothing concentrates head teachers' minds more than the termly handing over of the fat cheque.
  Because the affordable homes remain owned or part-owned by whichever housing association is involved, they cannot be sold on for fat profits.
  Thanks in part to fat fees from those captive funds and betting its own capital and trading prowess, the bank did very nicely thank you.
  For the rest, entering the entertainment world means having a colourful lifestyle, fat monetary rewards and an enviable social status.
  Mrs Dobson said the task of the trust has become more difficult over the years as property prices escalated and they had to compete with developers hoping to make fat profits.
  More than fame, more than fortune, more than a fat cookbook contract, what they really crave is a good sandwich.
  And so what if they're getting a big fat pay cheque - the money is commensurate with their sporting talent, not a measure of their morals.
  The press has done a public service exposing this government's fondness for spin, rich businessmen and fat donation cheques.
  He might have assumed a lower profile, but he didn't disappear like many others with a fat cheque, a set of golf clubs and a one-way ticket to Florida.
  The country's attempts since the 1970s to build a diversified economy from the fat profits of higher oil process have failed miserably.
  And when the great boom began and the country's cities began to develop, there was a rush to profit from the fat contracts on offer.
  Synonyms
  large, substantial, considerable, sizeable
  generous, handsome, ample, excellent, good, competitive
2. 2.2informal Used ironically to express the belief that something is unlikely or does not exist.
  〈非正式〉“极大的”；“很多的”（用作反话，表示没有或几乎没有）
  fat chance she had of influencing Guy's decisions
  她拥有左右他的可能性“极大”。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Ideally, Heaney's talk would be broadcast on the radio but there is fat chance of that.
  A groovy looking website with nothing to say or to do is a fat lot of use.
  This won't mean a fat lot to most of you, but the eventual results might be interesting.
  Ah well, it gives them something to write about, I suppose not a fat lot happens in Solihull at the best of times.
  But according to a report issued last week, there is fat chance of this in our part of the world.
  There is fat chance of Tosh forgetting about this season, which surely has the makings of a magical 30-goal one.
  On the other hand, you be nice to me… and a fat lot of good it'll do you.
  Maybe the cause is so great or maybe the suffering is so intolerable that the ends justify any means - fat chance, but maybe.
  The situation requires strong political leadership all round - fat chance.
  But fat chance that such a rational, liberal and secular proposal would ever get through here.
  A fat lot of good that is to a traveller who would be many miles away by the time it got there.
  For the first year I raved and plotted revenge, and a fat lot of good it did me.
  There is a similarly fat chance of us accepting the other unquestioned assumptions underpinning misanthropic doom-mongering about health.
  A fat lot of good that did for our magazine industry.
  She just didn't like crowds most of the time, except when she could escape notice in them - fat chance.
  The reason one goes here is to pray for a healthy and happy pregnancy and trouble free birth - fat chance on the first score so hopefully the birth will be ok.
  In any case, there is fat chance of finding alternative employment in this area, which to an untutored eye looks rich in natural assets.
  I gave up - there wasn't a fat lot of difference anyway.
  Such scaremongering is likely to do the nation's health a fat lot of good.
  But transparency is a fat lot of good if the newspapers don't bother to tell the public.
  Synonyms
  very little, not much, minimal, hardly any

verbfats, fatting, fatted fatfæt

archaic

Make or become fat.
〈古〉（使）长肥
with object numbers of black cattle are fatted here
大量的菜牛在这儿养得很肥。
no object the hogs have been fatting
这些猪在不停地长膘。
Example sentencesExamples
- We're like a prodigal son but we want to come back and get some fatted calf,’ she said.
- We were compelled to eat rotten biscuits and stinking decaying meat while our officers fatted themselves with the best food and drank the most expensive wines.
- So much like a 19th century professor he appeared, with his thick bristly sideburns covering either well fatted jowl.
- A local publication, The Evening Bulletin said, ‘The reporter had been horrified to see two fatted calves strolling up main street!’

Phrases

the fat is in the fire

Something has happened that will inevitably cause trouble.
if she gets hold of the information the fat will really be in the fire

kill the fatted calf

Produce one's best food to celebrate, especially at a prodigal's return.
（尤指对浪子回头）设宴庆祝
Example sentencesExamples
- Nevertheless, when he returned to civilian life, Nashville didn't exactly kill the fatted calf for him.
- The couple recalls how their parents killed the fatted calf ‘and a hog to boot for the wedding feast which was rounded out by sauerkraut and noodle soup.’
- Her mother, Alice, is delighted to see her, but her father, Hank, is not about to kill the fatted calf.
- They haven't exactly killed the fatted calf but they have been buying in an awful lot of Guinness for the return of their prodigal son on Saturday.
- Throughout the European countryside, the culmination of harvest season has always been a cue for thanksgiving and merrymaking, a time to kill the fatted calf, crack open a few bottles, have a dance and get seasonally sloshed.
- Perhaps for the same reasons, however, the American media has done everything but kill the fatted calf.
- But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.
- It was my turn to be surprised as he opened his mouth and sang clearly, ‘We'll kill the fatted calf tonight so stick around.’
- On one hand, it meant that Mother would kill the fatted calf and we would eat exceptionally well.
- Father killed the fatted calf that we were saving in honor of someone who deserved it, not that son of his.
Synonyms
enjoy oneself, make merry, have fun, have a good time, have a wild time, rave, party, have a party, eat, drink, and be merry, revel, roister, carouse, kill the fatted calf, put the flag out, put the flags out

live off (or on) the fat of the land

Have the best of everything.
过锦衣玉食的生活
landlords and merchants lived off the fat of the land
Example sentencesExamples
- Thanks to the ingenuity of these contraptions' designers and purveyors (people who, one might say, live off the fat of the land), the toils of Sisyphus have been transformed into a healthful pastime.
- It could be said that he lives off the fat of the land.
- As the play opens under a setting sun we see the care and love the two men have for each other, epitomised by George's tale of a small farm where they can both ‘live off the fat of the land’.
- But there are ways to live off the fat of the land without bleeding it dry.
- I wished that I was her, and that I had naturally curly hair and that I was an artist, living off the fat of the land, as it were, because it seemed totally alien to me that your family would ever support your own artistic inclinations.
- Check the long lines at stands operated by nocturnal vendors, men literally living off the fat of the land, for clear indication of how many people confront-on a nightly basis-the outlawed practice of eating far too near bedtime.
- After establishing herself in her parent's house ‘living on the fat of the land,’ Katherine began gathering information about her friends' and family's business affairs.
- Since Rachel was busy living off the fat of the land (read: her mother) she told me she could drive me to school until my dad decided I was responsible enough to own a car myself.
- The rank and file, I'm sorry to say, have lived off the fat of the land put there by our union forefathers and foremothers.
- It is also too simplistic to think of all monks as living off the fat of the land and benefiting from the labour of others.
Synonyms
lead a very comfortable life, be very rich, want for nothing, live off the fat of the land

Derivatives

fatless

adjective ˈfatləsˈfætləs

So in conclusion, Surin's ginger chicken did not pass muster - unless you're Lauren and you like your chicken fatless and flavorless.
Example sentencesExamples
- Spanish researchers tested a fatless sunflower seed meal in an experiment that mimicked the body's digestive process.
- Baked once and stored in tins, fatless, sugarless squares of dough were cooked a second time before being distributed to men about to embark on a sea voyage or land battle.
- His strong arms took her in, gathering her into the fatless curves of his body.
- There are stalls on cookware for waterless and fatless cooking, herbal medicine, and home-made health products.

fatly

adverb ˈfatliˈfætli

For now, revel in being human and save extraordinary tasks for next week, when the full moon rolls fatly into your sign, and you'll be able to handle them with ease.
Example sentencesExamples
- They were like grapes glistening fatly in the sun.
- But even when the loaf is squatting fatly in the oven I can't quite believe I've actually created bread - a process both immensely satisfying and which stirs something pleasantly primal deep inside.

fattish

adjective ˈfatɪʃˈfædɪʃ

The eyes, mouth, and nose were worn away, with small, fattish yellow worms crawling around.
Example sentencesExamples
- I am inside the pub at the appointed hour, standing at the bar next to a short, fattish man who also happens to be wearing a blue jacket.
- It was fattish (Mike insisted it was average) and overly cuddly.

Origin

Old English fǣtt 'well fed, plump', also 'fatty, oily', of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch vet and German feist.

People have been described as fat since Anglo-Saxon times. The English writer George Orwell said in 1939, ‘I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?’ Cyril Connolly echoed this in 1944 when he said that ‘Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.’ For some women fat is a feminist issue—the title of a 1978 book by Susie Orbach. The Bible gives us live on the fat of the land as a way of saying that we have the best of everything. It comes from the Book of Genesis, in Pharaoh's promise to Joseph and his family, ‘Ye shall eat the fat of the land’. Fat here represents an old sense of the noun meaning ‘the richest or choicest part of something’, which now survives only in this phrase. The fat is in the fire is recorded from the mid 16th century, when it referred to the complete failure of a plan. People spending time chatting in a leisurely way can be said to be chewing the fat. The origin of the expression is not entirely clear—it may have first been used in the Indian Army—but the most likely explanation is that it derives from the similarity between the movements of the jaw in chewing through fat or gristle and those involved in talking animatedly. See also opera, prodigal

Rhymes

at, bat, brat, cat, chat, cravat, drat, expat, flat, frat, gat, gnat, hat, hereat, high-hat, howzat, lat, mat, matt, matte, Montserrat, Nat, outsat, pat, pit-a-pat, plait, plat, prat, Rabat, rat, rat-tat, Sadat, sat, scat, Sebat, shabbat, shat, skat, slat, spat, splat, sprat, stat, Surat, tat, that, thereat, tit-for-tat, vat, whereat

Definition of fat in US English:

fat

nounfatfæt

1A natural oily or greasy substance occurring in animal bodies, especially when deposited as a layer under the skin or around certain organs.
脂肪；肥肉
Example sentencesExamples
- When I went from a girl's body to a woman's body with natural fat in places, I freaked out.
- The changes are expected to enable the method to provide accurate readings that are unaffected by skin color or body fat.
- Insulin resistance correlates with visceral fat measured by waist circumference or waist to hip ratio.
- This outer layer of body fat provides insulation from low temperatures.
- By late adolescence, girls have twice the body fat of boys, and boys have one-third greater muscle mass than girls.
- Just beneath the surface of the skin is a thin layer of subcutaneous fat.
- Your body has learned to use it sparingly as it relies heavily on fat for fuel.
- Bacon without all the fat, rind, and, er, flavour.
- Jan remembers eating bacon fat as a savoury spread instead of butter on bread.
- But a friend said I would burn more fat by doing strength training before cardio.
- With a very sharp knife, score the fat of the lamb, creating a crisscross pattern.
- At the same time, it stalls the metabolic processes that burn fat for fuel.
- And she praised the television advert with fat dripping from a cigarette end as a group of friends smoke in a pub.
- One simple rule is to trim all excess fat from meat.
- Fry over a medium heat until the fat runs and the bacon turns golden at the edges.
- Sauté the bacon in a large frying pan until browned and the fat starts to run.
- Hydroxycut can also help you burn stored fat for energy while sparing your precious muscle.
- Not much hair, we don't hibernate, and only in the age of super-sizing have we learned to put on a truly impressive layer of body fat.
- To lose body fat, you should eat fewer calories and increase your exercise.
- Trim the fat from meat and poultry, says Potter, because pesticides and other additives concentrate there.
Synonyms
fatty tissue, fat cells, blubber, adipose tissue
1. 1.1 A fatty substance made from animal or plant products, used in cooking.
  （烹饪用的动物或植物）脂油
  Example sentencesExamples
  When the skillet is hot, add enough oil or other cooking fat to thinly coat the bottom of the pan.
  Butter has a lower melting point than hard white fats such as lard and hardened vegetable cooking fat.
  He placed the meat in the bottom of the pot along with a little bit of cooking fat.
  Tesco and Waitrose have also promised to cut the use of such fats in own-brand food.
  He now operates from a van in the Hull area, filtering and cleaning catering cooking fat at hospitals, universities and schools.
  According to respected gerontologist Kazuhiko Taira, the most common cooking fat used traditionally in Okinawa is lard.
  Pour a thin layer of oil or melt a couple of large tablespoons of dripping or fat in another roasting tin on top of the stove until smoking hot.
  Whenever possible I cook from scratch, using fresh and organic ingredients, keeping animal fat, sugar and salt to a minimum
  That being done, the flesh was raked into small shreds and blended with the warm cooking fat to form a rustic paste.
  Under the new rules, how does one dispose of cooking oil and fat?
  I took no sugar, no butter and no other cooking fat of any sort because to get these rare commodities I would have had to ask Stewart to give me some.
  Melt the dripping or fat in a frying pan and add the onion.
  Instead, I just soaked fruits directly in liquors, without adding sugar or fat, which is what I used to do before.
  Most high-fat equine foods use an animal fat high in saturated fats rather than vegetable oils.
  We are working with manufacturers and suppliers to lower sugar, salt and fat in ingredients.
  A tablespoon of fat - butter, bacon grease, mild oil - is gently warmed in a small, trustworthy skillet.
  The fire had started accidentally when fat from the chip pan caught alight.
  Cheaper chocolate contains some animal or vegetable fat.
  Two pieces of unrecognisable chicken coated in artificial breadcrumbs and deep fried in greasy fat coming up.
  Who would decide what constituted an unnecessary level of fat in various foods.
  Synonyms
  cooking oil, animal fat, vegetable fat, grease
2. 1.2 The presence of excess fat in a person or animal, causing them to appear corpulent.
  肥胖
  he was a tall man, running to fat
  他个子高，而且在快速发胖。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Losing just a few pounds of excess fat will go a long way toward improving your health.
  Researchers say those with excess fat around the stomach - the so-called apple shape - are also less healthy than full-figured women.
  A survey shows that these people are more vulnerable to diseases linked to excessive fat.
  Research among 38,000 adults found the average man is now an ‘apple’ shape - meaning they carry excess fat on their waist.
  These supplements should be mainstays for any guy looking to add bulk while keeping off fat.
  Aim to keep your pulse rate between 65 and 75 per cent at first, as this will help to burn any excess fat as well as increasing your cardio-vascular fitness.
  You don't necessarily lose your powers if you're grey or turning to fat.
  Many active people are curious about their body composition and wonder what percent of their weight is excess fat.
  People who carry more weight around their waistlines are at greater health risks than individuals who carry their excess fat in the hips and thighs.
  He was six foot one, and he never went to fat the way a lot of other policemen did.
  You decided to get healthy, put on muscle and maybe lose a few pounds of excess fat.
  As you gain strength, lose excess fat, and begin to look better in your clothes, revel in it.
  Carrying excess fat around the stomach, being ‘apple shaped’, is already known to be potentially damaging to health.
  I could hear the hard breathing of Senor Nunez across from me and could almost see in my mind's eye his nasal passages, suffocated by the large amounts of unnecessary fat in his face and throat.
  I can even afford to carry excess fat, having had more than enough to eat in recent months and years.
  He acknowledged that eating clean played a major role in ridding fat in the area and helping his abs show through.
  Better diets are allowing people to grow stronger than in the 1950s, but much of the extra calorie intake is turning to fat, leading to bulkier waistlines.
  The zoo said that the adoption of the practice is also aimed at helping the big cats reduce excessive fat.
  He was one of those fortunate athletes who, although very strongly built, never tended to run to fat.
  The presence of excess fat in the abdomen is an independent predictor of risk factors and mortality.
  Synonyms
  fatness, plumpness, stoutness, heaviness, chubbiness, tubbiness, portliness, rotundity, podginess, flabbiness, bulk, excessive weight
3. 1.3Chemistry Any of a group of natural esters of glycerol and various fatty acids, which are solid at room temperature and are the main constituents of animal and vegetable fat.
  〔化〕（天然）油脂，脂肪酸。比较OIL
  Compare with oil
  Example sentencesExamples
  The 12-ounce bowl contains 25 g protein and only 7 g fat.
  Whole-wheat foods also contain high levels of healthy monounsaturated fats, protein and B vitamin.
  Sucrose is also the basic plant biochemical building block, and can be converted to proteins, fats, and organic acids.
  The energy that every body needs is derived from carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.
  In an effort to be just a little healthier, we're opting for a peanut butter without hydrogenated fat.
  Though cashews are not technically nuts (they're seeds), they are high in heart healthy monounsaturated fat.
  For various reasons, those foods rich in saturated fat offer compensations in a bleak world.
  I thought triglycerides were fats, so shouldn't he avoid fats?
  Olive oil is very low in saturated fats and loaded with healthy monounsaturated fats, so choose it over others.
  Similarly the more polyunsaturated fat in a product, the more tocopherol it will need to contain.

adjectivefatfæt

1(of a person or animal) having a large amount of excess flesh.
（人，动物）肥胖的
the driver was a fat, wheezing man
司机是个气喘吁吁的大胖子。
Example sentencesExamples
- I ate 20 nuggets and a chicken sandwich meal and Rob kept on throwing things at me and calling me a fat pig.
- The case against fat proceeds on the assumption that if a fat person becomes thin, that person will acquire the health characteristics of people who were thin in the first place.
- The link between the daily traffic jams outside schools and the bored, fat teenagers in the people carriers seemed to escape the members of the obesity taskforce.
- Shell makes an interesting point about very fat people: in order to carry that enormous extra weight around with them, they have much more powerful muscles than less fat people do.
- I opened the door and came face to face with a fat janitor smoking a cigarette and operating an extraordinarily loud vacuum.
- She was sitting between a fat man who wheezed a lot and a woman who definitely overdid the perfume.
- I'm sitting at the library across from a very skinny woman and I'm thinking about how fat I am.
- She was about Hanna's age and looked nice and friendly: short, a little plump but not fat, with long red hair and freckled face.
- He was a large, plump man with a fat gut hanging over his belt.
- Your eyes flash all round the platform to see if there are any hugely fat people you can hide behind - has he seen you yet?
- The same white-and-orange hamster, named Honey, resided in a small cage cleaned out once a week and had grown so fat that she could hardly squeeze through cardboard tubes.
- I don't know how I can look at my stupid, fat bulk in the mirror every day.
- She was only plump, not fat, but in those girls' eyes, she was a whale.
- Everyday, I see people not much older than me, fat and enslaved to cigarettes and/or alcohol struggling to get on/off a bus let alone walking somewhere.
- I've been visiting a few suburban areas in our country over the last month and have to say that I'm shocked at how disgustingly fat people have become.
- Go on a diet with your pet - if you have a fat dog at home, like we do.
- He was 67, so fat that he could hardly walk, gluttonous, in ill health and within eight months of death.
- Sows are too fat upon entering the farrowing house.
- Despite the ‘real’ people portrayed, I've yet to see a fat person on board or someone with bad hygiene.
- Cue whinge after whinge after pitiful whinge about how fat she thinks she is, and how much weight she must have put on since entering the house.
Synonyms
plump, stout, overweight, heavy, large, solid, chubby, portly, rotund, flabby, paunchy, pot-bellied, beer-bellied, dumpy, meaty, broad in the beam, of ample proportions, falstaffian
1. 1.1 (of an animal bred for food) made plump for slaughter.
  （为食用而饲养的动物）育肥的
  Example sentencesExamples
  In York Cattle Market the following week there would be one of the biggest auction sales of fat pigs since before the war.
  The market re-opened for the sale of fat cattle and sheep.
  We had 2,225 fat sheep on Tuesday and the best lambs made up to 145p/kilo.
  While fat cow and bull prices are still weak, feeder cattle prices are strong.
  The limit of his agrarian radicalism was a demand, conceded by the British, for the removal of differential between Irish fat cattle and animals fattened in Britain.
2. 1.2 Containing much fat.
  油腻的；肥的
  fat bacon
  油腻的熏咸肉。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Use 3 rashers of smoked, fat, streaky bacon with the rind taken off.
  Use thin cut smoked streaky bacon as fat as you can get it.
  But it is also about three fat rashers of Gloucester Old Spot bacon on thick white bread with ketchup.
  The stuffing was seasoned with salt and the bird coated with flour and strips of fat bacon and then roasted in the black oven pot with coals on the lid to maintain an even temperature.
  Synonyms
  fatty, greasy, oily, oleaginous, unctuous
3. 1.3 Large in bulk or circumference.
  体积大的；粗的
  a fat cigarette
  粗支香烟。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Peer over your plate to see the deft hands of prep chef Samuel Ramirez shape cornmeal-molasses dough into fat hamburger buns.
  And then there is a guy smoking a fat cigarette that surely contains less tobacco than greenery.
  It's a bar where you can enjoy good company, a fat cigar, a dainty cigarette and a glass of fine red.
  The risotto turned out to be excellent and very well seasoned, with its fat grains of al dente rice and its large chunks of tasty mushrooms.
  But you don't need to be a criminal mastermind to target our rather fat and sluggish financial institutions.
  We sought refuge in the comfort of pipes, nursery food, big fat armchairs in stuffy, overheated rooms and low-risk jobs for life.
  Last year, Arthritis New Zealand ran billboards featuring a middle-aged woman sucking on a fat marijuana cigarette.
  Eventually he would come up, sit down, then carefully roll himself a fat, untidy cigarette, spilling some tobacco in the process.
  With a mid-engined layout, a fat tyre at each corner and your own bulk almost as low as it can go, the weight distribution is perfect, and the handling truly sublime.
  Yet the questions remain: Are clean lungs and a fatter wallet worth my sanity?
  In order to attend you need not just a fat wallet but the right connections.
  Sometimes the balance teeters in one direction, but mostly I try to even things out by eating a salad on a day after eating a big fat steak with bacon.
  The force of fat raindrops hitting my head was hard enough to make me wince.
  She selected a very fat cigarette which she lit with a petrol lighter, and grinned as it issued a rich sweet-smelling odour.
  She then turned back and a female friend leaned down, took what appeared to be a fat, hand-rolled cigarette and lit it.
  Synonyms
  thick, big, chunky, substantial, extended, long
4. 1.4informal (of an asset or opportunity) financially substantial or desirable.
  〈非正式〉（财产，机会）相当多（或大）的
  a fat profit
  丰厚的利润。
  fat motion picture deals
  Example sentencesExamples
  More than fame, more than fortune, more than a fat cookbook contract, what they really crave is a good sandwich.
  While they are buying well-known brand names and waiting for prestige and fat profits to result, they tend to forget the major difference between home and abroad.
  He is not the first person to be sacked for missing targets and to walk out with a fat cheque, but what the bankers really disliked was the cut of his jib.
  Thanks in part to fat fees from those captive funds and betting its own capital and trading prowess, the bank did very nicely thank you.
  I'm just glad Rob didn't win (though he's got his hands on the money via matrimony anyway), and that Rupert got a nice fat cheque.
  All my children have spent time in excellent examples of both, but I have to say I find nothing concentrates head teachers' minds more than the termly handing over of the fat cheque.
  And when the great boom began and the country's cities began to develop, there was a rush to profit from the fat contracts on offer.
  For years, Hong Kong's developers - owners of some of the most expensive real estate in the world - have enjoyed fat profit margins.
  A company making big league profits and paying fat dividends to shareholders should be ashamed of its insulting pay offer to the people who actually do the work.
  He might have assumed a lower profile, but he didn't disappear like many others with a fat cheque, a set of golf clubs and a one-way ticket to Florida.
  And so what if they're getting a big fat pay cheque - the money is commensurate with their sporting talent, not a measure of their morals.
  And even if they do not form the next Government, they stand to receive fat pension cheques whilst they continue to work and earn.
  Because the affordable homes remain owned or part-owned by whichever housing association is involved, they cannot be sold on for fat profits.
  Fat reduction brought fat times for much of the food industry in the early 1990s, helping to spawn such megabrands as Healthy Choice.
  The country's attempts since the 1970s to build a diversified economy from the fat profits of higher oil process have failed miserably.
  For the rest, entering the entertainment world means having a colourful lifestyle, fat monetary rewards and an enviable social status.
  The fat profits in the sector have driven the number of developers to 30,000 from 4,200 in 1991.
  The press has done a public service exposing this government's fondness for spin, rich businessmen and fat donation cheques.
  Mrs Dobson said the task of the trust has become more difficult over the years as property prices escalated and they had to compete with developers hoping to make fat profits.
  So what happens to your big fat pension fund in these circumstances?
  Synonyms
  large, substantial, considerable, sizeable
5. 1.5informal Used ironically to express the belief that there is none or very little of something.
  〈非正式〉“极大的”；“很多的”（用作反话，表示没有或几乎没有）
  fat chance she had of influencing him
  她拥有左右他的可能性“极大”。
  a fat lot of good that'll do him
  Example sentencesExamples
  The reason one goes here is to pray for a healthy and happy pregnancy and trouble free birth - fat chance on the first score so hopefully the birth will be ok.
  I gave up - there wasn't a fat lot of difference anyway.
  Such scaremongering is likely to do the nation's health a fat lot of good.
  On the other hand, you be nice to me… and a fat lot of good it'll do you.
  But fat chance that such a rational, liberal and secular proposal would ever get through here.
  But according to a report issued last week, there is fat chance of this in our part of the world.
  There is fat chance of Tosh forgetting about this season, which surely has the makings of a magical 30-goal one.
  Ideally, Heaney's talk would be broadcast on the radio but there is fat chance of that.
  Maybe the cause is so great or maybe the suffering is so intolerable that the ends justify any means - fat chance, but maybe.
  This won't mean a fat lot to most of you, but the eventual results might be interesting.
  She just didn't like crowds most of the time, except when she could escape notice in them - fat chance.
  There is a similarly fat chance of us accepting the other unquestioned assumptions underpinning misanthropic doom-mongering about health.
  A groovy looking website with nothing to say or to do is a fat lot of use.
  But transparency is a fat lot of good if the newspapers don't bother to tell the public.
  A fat lot of good that did for our magazine industry.
  A fat lot of good that is to a traveller who would be many miles away by the time it got there.
  For the first year I raved and plotted revenge, and a fat lot of good it did me.
  Ah well, it gives them something to write about, I suppose not a fat lot happens in Solihull at the best of times.
  The situation requires strong political leadership all round - fat chance.
  In any case, there is fat chance of finding alternative employment in this area, which to an untutored eye looks rich in natural assets.
  Synonyms
  very little, not much, minimal, hardly any
6. 1.6 (of coal) containing a high proportion of volatile oils.
  （煤）肥的（指挥发油含量高）
7. 1.7 (of wood) containing a high proportion of resin.
  （煤）肥的（指挥发油含量高）
  fat pine

verbfatfæt

archaic

Make or become fat.
〈古〉（使）长肥
with object numbers of black cattle are fatted here
大量的菜牛在这儿养得很肥。
no object the hogs have been fatting
这些猪在不停地长膘。
Example sentencesExamples
- A local publication, The Evening Bulletin said, ‘The reporter had been horrified to see two fatted calves strolling up main street!’
- So much like a 19th century professor he appeared, with his thick bristly sideburns covering either well fatted jowl.
- We're like a prodigal son but we want to come back and get some fatted calf,’ she said.
- We were compelled to eat rotten biscuits and stinking decaying meat while our officers fatted themselves with the best food and drank the most expensive wines.

Phrases

the fat is in the fire

Something has happened that will surely lead to an unpleasant result or angry reaction.

kill the fatted calf

Produce one's best food to celebrate, especially at a prodigal's return.
（尤指对浪子回头）设宴庆祝
Example sentencesExamples
- Her mother, Alice, is delighted to see her, but her father, Hank, is not about to kill the fatted calf.
- But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.
- The couple recalls how their parents killed the fatted calf ‘and a hog to boot for the wedding feast which was rounded out by sauerkraut and noodle soup.’
- They haven't exactly killed the fatted calf but they have been buying in an awful lot of Guinness for the return of their prodigal son on Saturday.
- On one hand, it meant that Mother would kill the fatted calf and we would eat exceptionally well.
- Nevertheless, when he returned to civilian life, Nashville didn't exactly kill the fatted calf for him.
- Father killed the fatted calf that we were saving in honor of someone who deserved it, not that son of his.
- It was my turn to be surprised as he opened his mouth and sang clearly, ‘We'll kill the fatted calf tonight so stick around.’
- Perhaps for the same reasons, however, the American media has done everything but kill the fatted calf.
- Throughout the European countryside, the culmination of harvest season has always been a cue for thanksgiving and merrymaking, a time to kill the fatted calf, crack open a few bottles, have a dance and get seasonally sloshed.
Synonyms
enjoy oneself, make merry, have fun, have a good time, have a wild time, rave, party, have a party, eat, drink, and be merry, revel, roister, carouse, kill the fatted calf, put the flag out, put the flags out

live off (or on) the fat of the land

Have the best of everything.
过锦衣玉食的生活
Example sentencesExamples
- It is also too simplistic to think of all monks as living off the fat of the land and benefiting from the labour of others.
- After establishing herself in her parent's house ‘living on the fat of the land,’ Katherine began gathering information about her friends' and family's business affairs.
- The rank and file, I'm sorry to say, have lived off the fat of the land put there by our union forefathers and foremothers.
- Check the long lines at stands operated by nocturnal vendors, men literally living off the fat of the land, for clear indication of how many people confront-on a nightly basis-the outlawed practice of eating far too near bedtime.
- Since Rachel was busy living off the fat of the land (read: her mother) she told me she could drive me to school until my dad decided I was responsible enough to own a car myself.
- But there are ways to live off the fat of the land without bleeding it dry.
- I wished that I was her, and that I had naturally curly hair and that I was an artist, living off the fat of the land, as it were, because it seemed totally alien to me that your family would ever support your own artistic inclinations.
- It could be said that he lives off the fat of the land.
- Thanks to the ingenuity of these contraptions' designers and purveyors (people who, one might say, live off the fat of the land), the toils of Sisyphus have been transformed into a healthful pastime.
- As the play opens under a setting sun we see the care and love the two men have for each other, epitomised by George's tale of a small farm where they can both ‘live off the fat of the land’.
Synonyms
lead a very comfortable life, be very rich, want for nothing, live off the fat of the land

Origin

Old English fǣtt ‘well fed, plump’, also ‘fatty, oily’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch vet and German feist.

单词	fat
释义	Definition of fat in English: fat nounPlural fats fatfæt 1mass noun A natural oily substance occurring in animal bodies, especially when deposited as a layer under the skin or around certain organs. 脂肪；肥肉 whales and seals insulate themselves with layers of fat Example sentencesExamples The changes are expected to enable the method to provide accurate readings that are unaffected by skin color or body fat. Fry over a medium heat until the fat runs and the bacon turns golden at the edges. When I went from a girl's body to a woman's body with natural fat in places, I freaked out. Not much hair, we don't hibernate, and only in the age of super-sizing have we learned to put on a truly impressive layer of body fat. Insulin resistance correlates with visceral fat measured by waist circumference or waist to hip ratio. But a friend said I would burn more fat by doing strength training before cardio. With a very sharp knife, score the fat of the lamb, creating a crisscross pattern. Your body has learned to use it sparingly as it relies heavily on fat for fuel. Just beneath the surface of the skin is a thin layer of subcutaneous fat. By late adolescence, girls have twice the body fat of boys, and boys have one-third greater muscle mass than girls. Trim the fat from meat and poultry, says Potter, because pesticides and other additives concentrate there. Sauté the bacon in a large frying pan until browned and the fat starts to run. Bacon without all the fat, rind, and, er, flavour. Hydroxycut can also help you burn stored fat for energy while sparing your precious muscle. To lose body fat, you should eat fewer calories and increase your exercise. One simple rule is to trim all excess fat from meat. Jan remembers eating bacon fat as a savoury spread instead of butter on bread. This outer layer of body fat provides insulation from low temperatures. At the same time, it stalls the metabolic processes that burn fat for fuel. And she praised the television advert with fat dripping from a cigarette end as a group of friends smoke in a pub. Synonyms fatty tissue, fat cells, blubber, adipose tissue 1.1 A fatty substance made from animal or plant products, used in cooking. （烹饪用的动物或植物）脂油 sizzling fat count noun a diet high in animal fats Example sentencesExamples Melt the dripping or fat in a frying pan and add the onion. Tesco and Waitrose have also promised to cut the use of such fats in own-brand food. Who would decide what constituted an unnecessary level of fat in various foods. He now operates from a van in the Hull area, filtering and cleaning catering cooking fat at hospitals, universities and schools. I took no sugar, no butter and no other cooking fat of any sort because to get these rare commodities I would have had to ask Stewart to give me some. Instead, I just soaked fruits directly in liquors, without adding sugar or fat, which is what I used to do before. Whenever possible I cook from scratch, using fresh and organic ingredients, keeping animal fat, sugar and salt to a minimum A tablespoon of fat - butter, bacon grease, mild oil - is gently warmed in a small, trustworthy skillet. Under the new rules, how does one dispose of cooking oil and fat? Butter has a lower melting point than hard white fats such as lard and hardened vegetable cooking fat. When the skillet is hot, add enough oil or other cooking fat to thinly coat the bottom of the pan. Cheaper chocolate contains some animal or vegetable fat. Pour a thin layer of oil or melt a couple of large tablespoons of dripping or fat in another roasting tin on top of the stove until smoking hot. Most high-fat equine foods use an animal fat high in saturated fats rather than vegetable oils. We are working with manufacturers and suppliers to lower sugar, salt and fat in ingredients. That being done, the flesh was raked into small shreds and blended with the warm cooking fat to form a rustic paste. According to respected gerontologist Kazuhiko Taira, the most common cooking fat used traditionally in Okinawa is lard. Two pieces of unrecognisable chicken coated in artificial breadcrumbs and deep fried in greasy fat coming up. He placed the meat in the bottom of the pot along with a little bit of cooking fat. The fire had started accidentally when fat from the chip pan caught alight. Synonyms cooking oil, animal fat, vegetable fat, grease lard, suet, butter, margarine 1.2 The presence of excess fat in a person or animal. he was a tall man, running to fat 他个子高，而且在快速发胖。 Example sentencesExamples A survey shows that these people are more vulnerable to diseases linked to excessive fat. Aim to keep your pulse rate between 65 and 75 per cent at first, as this will help to burn any excess fat as well as increasing your cardio-vascular fitness. I could hear the hard breathing of Senor Nunez across from me and could almost see in my mind's eye his nasal passages, suffocated by the large amounts of unnecessary fat in his face and throat. Better diets are allowing people to grow stronger than in the 1950s, but much of the extra calorie intake is turning to fat, leading to bulkier waistlines. People who carry more weight around their waistlines are at greater health risks than individuals who carry their excess fat in the hips and thighs. The zoo said that the adoption of the practice is also aimed at helping the big cats reduce excessive fat. You decided to get healthy, put on muscle and maybe lose a few pounds of excess fat. He acknowledged that eating clean played a major role in ridding fat in the area and helping his abs show through. Researchers say those with excess fat around the stomach - the so-called apple shape - are also less healthy than full-figured women. Losing just a few pounds of excess fat will go a long way toward improving your health. Research among 38,000 adults found the average man is now an ‘apple’ shape - meaning they carry excess fat on their waist. As you gain strength, lose excess fat, and begin to look better in your clothes, revel in it. Many active people are curious about their body composition and wonder what percent of their weight is excess fat. He was six foot one, and he never went to fat the way a lot of other policemen did. These supplements should be mainstays for any guy looking to add bulk while keeping off fat. You don't necessarily lose your powers if you're grey or turning to fat. The presence of excess fat in the abdomen is an independent predictor of risk factors and mortality. He was one of those fortunate athletes who, although very strongly built, never tended to run to fat. Carrying excess fat around the stomach, being ‘apple shaped’, is already known to be potentially damaging to health. I can even afford to carry excess fat, having had more than enough to eat in recent months and years. Synonyms fatness, plumpness, stoutness, heaviness, chubbiness, tubbiness, portliness, rotundity, podginess, flabbiness, bulk, excessive weight obesity, corpulence, grossness paunch, pot belly, beer belly, beer gut informal flab, blubber, beef 2Chemistry Any of a group of natural esters of glycerol and various fatty acids, which are solid at room temperature and are the main constituents of animal and vegetable fat. 〔化〕（天然）油脂，脂肪酸。比较OIL some 40 per cent of our daily calories are derived from dietary fats Compare with oil Example sentencesExamples Olive oil is very low in saturated fats and loaded with healthy monounsaturated fats, so choose it over others. The 12-ounce bowl contains 25 g protein and only 7 g fat. The energy that every body needs is derived from carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. For various reasons, those foods rich in saturated fat offer compensations in a bleak world. Whole-wheat foods also contain high levels of healthy monounsaturated fats, protein and B vitamin. Though cashews are not technically nuts (they're seeds), they are high in heart healthy monounsaturated fat. Sucrose is also the basic plant biochemical building block, and can be converted to proteins, fats, and organic acids. In an effort to be just a little healthier, we're opting for a peanut butter without hydrogenated fat. Similarly the more polyunsaturated fat in a product, the more tocopherol it will need to contain. I thought triglycerides were fats, so shouldn't he avoid fats? adjectivefattest, fatter fatfæt 1(of a person or animal) having a large amount of excess flesh. （人，动物）肥胖的 the driver was a fat wheezing man 司机是个气喘吁吁的大胖子。 Example sentencesExamples I've been visiting a few suburban areas in our country over the last month and have to say that I'm shocked at how disgustingly fat people have become. I opened the door and came face to face with a fat janitor smoking a cigarette and operating an extraordinarily loud vacuum. I don't know how I can look at my stupid, fat bulk in the mirror every day. Everyday, I see people not much older than me, fat and enslaved to cigarettes and/or alcohol struggling to get on/off a bus let alone walking somewhere. Your eyes flash all round the platform to see if there are any hugely fat people you can hide behind - has he seen you yet? I ate 20 nuggets and a chicken sandwich meal and Rob kept on throwing things at me and calling me a fat pig. Go on a diet with your pet - if you have a fat dog at home, like we do. She was about Hanna's age and looked nice and friendly: short, a little plump but not fat, with long red hair and freckled face. The link between the daily traffic jams outside schools and the bored, fat teenagers in the people carriers seemed to escape the members of the obesity taskforce. I'm sitting at the library across from a very skinny woman and I'm thinking about how fat I am. The same white-and-orange hamster, named Honey, resided in a small cage cleaned out once a week and had grown so fat that she could hardly squeeze through cardboard tubes. He was 67, so fat that he could hardly walk, gluttonous, in ill health and within eight months of death. She was sitting between a fat man who wheezed a lot and a woman who definitely overdid the perfume. He was a large, plump man with a fat gut hanging over his belt. Sows are too fat upon entering the farrowing house. Shell makes an interesting point about very fat people: in order to carry that enormous extra weight around with them, they have much more powerful muscles than less fat people do. She was only plump, not fat, but in those girls' eyes, she was a whale. The case against fat proceeds on the assumption that if a fat person becomes thin, that person will acquire the health characteristics of people who were thin in the first place. Cue whinge after whinge after pitiful whinge about how fat she thinks she is, and how much weight she must have put on since entering the house. Despite the ‘real’ people portrayed, I've yet to see a fat person on board or someone with bad hygiene. Synonyms plump, stout, overweight, heavy, large, solid, chubby, portly, rotund, flabby, paunchy, pot-bellied, beer-bellied, dumpy, meaty, broad in the beam, of ample proportions, Falstaffian buxom obese, morbidly obese, corpulent, bloated, gross, gargantuan, elephantine fleshy informal tubby, roly-poly, beefy, porky, blubbery, poddy, chunky, well padded, well covered, well upholstered British informal podgy, fubsy North American informal lard-assed Scottish literary sonsy rare pursy, abdominous 1.1 (of an animal bred for food) made plump for slaughter. （为食用而饲养的动物）育肥的 Example sentencesExamples The market re-opened for the sale of fat cattle and sheep. In York Cattle Market the following week there would be one of the biggest auction sales of fat pigs since before the war. While fat cow and bull prices are still weak, feeder cattle prices are strong. The limit of his agrarian radicalism was a demand, conceded by the British, for the removal of differential between Irish fat cattle and animals fattened in Britain. We had 2,225 fat sheep on Tuesday and the best lambs made up to 145p/kilo. 1.2 Containing much fat. 油腻的；肥的 fat bacon 油腻的熏咸肉。 Example sentencesExamples The stuffing was seasoned with salt and the bird coated with flour and strips of fat bacon and then roasted in the black oven pot with coals on the lid to maintain an even temperature. But it is also about three fat rashers of Gloucester Old Spot bacon on thick white bread with ketchup. Use 3 rashers of smoked, fat, streaky bacon with the rind taken off. Use thin cut smoked streaky bacon as fat as you can get it. Synonyms fatty, greasy, oily, oleaginous, unctuous formal pinguid, adipose, sebaceous 1.3 (of coal) containing a high proportion of volatile oils. （煤）肥的（指挥发油含量高） 2Large in bulk or circumference. 体积大的；粗的 a fat cigarette 粗支香烟。 Example sentencesExamples Last year, Arthritis New Zealand ran billboards featuring a middle-aged woman sucking on a fat marijuana cigarette. It's a bar where you can enjoy good company, a fat cigar, a dainty cigarette and a glass of fine red. But you don't need to be a criminal mastermind to target our rather fat and sluggish financial institutions. Yet the questions remain: Are clean lungs and a fatter wallet worth my sanity? Eventually he would come up, sit down, then carefully roll himself a fat, untidy cigarette, spilling some tobacco in the process. She selected a very fat cigarette which she lit with a petrol lighter, and grinned as it issued a rich sweet-smelling odour. We sought refuge in the comfort of pipes, nursery food, big fat armchairs in stuffy, overheated rooms and low-risk jobs for life. The force of fat raindrops hitting my head was hard enough to make me wince. Peer over your plate to see the deft hands of prep chef Samuel Ramirez shape cornmeal-molasses dough into fat hamburger buns. In order to attend you need not just a fat wallet but the right connections. And then there is a guy smoking a fat cigarette that surely contains less tobacco than greenery. With a mid-engined layout, a fat tyre at each corner and your own bulk almost as low as it can go, the weight distribution is perfect, and the handling truly sublime. She then turned back and a female friend leaned down, took what appeared to be a fat, hand-rolled cigarette and lit it. Sometimes the balance teeters in one direction, but mostly I try to even things out by eating a salad on a day after eating a big fat steak with bacon. The risotto turned out to be excellent and very well seasoned, with its fat grains of al dente rice and its large chunks of tasty mushrooms. Synonyms thick, big, chunky, substantial, extended, long 2.1informal (especially in the context of financial reward) substantial. a fat profit 丰厚的利润。 a fat cheque Example sentencesExamples For years, Hong Kong's developers - owners of some of the most expensive real estate in the world - have enjoyed fat profit margins. He is not the first person to be sacked for missing targets and to walk out with a fat cheque, but what the bankers really disliked was the cut of his jib. And even if they do not form the next Government, they stand to receive fat pension cheques whilst they continue to work and earn. I'm just glad Rob didn't win (though he's got his hands on the money via matrimony anyway), and that Rupert got a nice fat cheque. A company making big league profits and paying fat dividends to shareholders should be ashamed of its insulting pay offer to the people who actually do the work. While they are buying well-known brand names and waiting for prestige and fat profits to result, they tend to forget the major difference between home and abroad. So what happens to your big fat pension fund in these circumstances? The fat profits in the sector have driven the number of developers to 30,000 from 4,200 in 1991. Fat reduction brought fat times for much of the food industry in the early 1990s, helping to spawn such megabrands as Healthy Choice. All my children have spent time in excellent examples of both, but I have to say I find nothing concentrates head teachers' minds more than the termly handing over of the fat cheque. Because the affordable homes remain owned or part-owned by whichever housing association is involved, they cannot be sold on for fat profits. Thanks in part to fat fees from those captive funds and betting its own capital and trading prowess, the bank did very nicely thank you. For the rest, entering the entertainment world means having a colourful lifestyle, fat monetary rewards and an enviable social status. Mrs Dobson said the task of the trust has become more difficult over the years as property prices escalated and they had to compete with developers hoping to make fat profits. More than fame, more than fortune, more than a fat cookbook contract, what they really crave is a good sandwich. And so what if they're getting a big fat pay cheque - the money is commensurate with their sporting talent, not a measure of their morals. The press has done a public service exposing this government's fondness for spin, rich businessmen and fat donation cheques. He might have assumed a lower profile, but he didn't disappear like many others with a fat cheque, a set of golf clubs and a one-way ticket to Florida. The country's attempts since the 1970s to build a diversified economy from the fat profits of higher oil process have failed miserably. And when the great boom began and the country's cities began to develop, there was a rush to profit from the fat contracts on offer. Synonyms large, substantial, considerable, sizeable generous, handsome, ample, excellent, good, competitive 2.2informal Used ironically to express the belief that something is unlikely or does not exist. 〈非正式〉“极大的”；“很多的”（用作反话，表示没有或几乎没有） fat chance she had of influencing Guy's decisions 她拥有左右他的可能性“极大”。 Example sentencesExamples Ideally, Heaney's talk would be broadcast on the radio but there is fat chance of that. A groovy looking website with nothing to say or to do is a fat lot of use. This won't mean a fat lot to most of you, but the eventual results might be interesting. Ah well, it gives them something to write about, I suppose not a fat lot happens in Solihull at the best of times. But according to a report issued last week, there is fat chance of this in our part of the world. There is fat chance of Tosh forgetting about this season, which surely has the makings of a magical 30-goal one. On the other hand, you be nice to me… and a fat lot of good it'll do you. Maybe the cause is so great or maybe the suffering is so intolerable that the ends justify any means - fat chance, but maybe. The situation requires strong political leadership all round - fat chance. But fat chance that such a rational, liberal and secular proposal would ever get through here. A fat lot of good that is to a traveller who would be many miles away by the time it got there. For the first year I raved and plotted revenge, and a fat lot of good it did me. There is a similarly fat chance of us accepting the other unquestioned assumptions underpinning misanthropic doom-mongering about health. A fat lot of good that did for our magazine industry. She just didn't like crowds most of the time, except when she could escape notice in them - fat chance. The reason one goes here is to pray for a healthy and happy pregnancy and trouble free birth - fat chance on the first score so hopefully the birth will be ok. In any case, there is fat chance of finding alternative employment in this area, which to an untutored eye looks rich in natural assets. I gave up - there wasn't a fat lot of difference anyway. Such scaremongering is likely to do the nation's health a fat lot of good. But transparency is a fat lot of good if the newspapers don't bother to tell the public. Synonyms very little, not much, minimal, hardly any verbfats, fatting, fatted fatfæt archaic Make or become fat. 〈古〉（使）长肥 with object numbers of black cattle are fatted here 大量的菜牛在这儿养得很肥。 no object the hogs have been fatting 这些猪在不停地长膘。 Example sentencesExamples We're like a prodigal son but we want to come back and get some fatted calf,’ she said. We were compelled to eat rotten biscuits and stinking decaying meat while our officers fatted themselves with the best food and drank the most expensive wines. So much like a 19th century professor he appeared, with his thick bristly sideburns covering either well fatted jowl. A local publication, The Evening Bulletin said, ‘The reporter had been horrified to see two fatted calves strolling up main street!’ Phrases the fat is in the fire Something has happened that will inevitably cause trouble. if she gets hold of the information the fat will really be in the fire kill the fatted calf Produce one's best food to celebrate, especially at a prodigal's return. （尤指对浪子回头）设宴庆祝 Example sentencesExamples Nevertheless, when he returned to civilian life, Nashville didn't exactly kill the fatted calf for him. The couple recalls how their parents killed the fatted calf ‘and a hog to boot for the wedding feast which was rounded out by sauerkraut and noodle soup.’ Her mother, Alice, is delighted to see her, but her father, Hank, is not about to kill the fatted calf. They haven't exactly killed the fatted calf but they have been buying in an awful lot of Guinness for the return of their prodigal son on Saturday. Throughout the European countryside, the culmination of harvest season has always been a cue for thanksgiving and merrymaking, a time to kill the fatted calf, crack open a few bottles, have a dance and get seasonally sloshed. Perhaps for the same reasons, however, the American media has done everything but kill the fatted calf. But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him. It was my turn to be surprised as he opened his mouth and sang clearly, ‘We'll kill the fatted calf tonight so stick around.’ On one hand, it meant that Mother would kill the fatted calf and we would eat exceptionally well. Father killed the fatted calf that we were saving in honor of someone who deserved it, not that son of his. Synonyms enjoy oneself, make merry, have fun, have a good time, have a wild time, rave, party, have a party, eat, drink, and be merry, revel, roister, carouse, kill the fatted calf, put the flag out, put the flags out live off (or on) the fat of the land Have the best of everything. 过锦衣玉食的生活 landlords and merchants lived off the fat of the land Example sentencesExamples Thanks to the ingenuity of these contraptions' designers and purveyors (people who, one might say, live off the fat of the land), the toils of Sisyphus have been transformed into a healthful pastime. It could be said that he lives off the fat of the land. As the play opens under a setting sun we see the care and love the two men have for each other, epitomised by George's tale of a small farm where they can both ‘live off the fat of the land’. But there are ways to live off the fat of the land without bleeding it dry. I wished that I was her, and that I had naturally curly hair and that I was an artist, living off the fat of the land, as it were, because it seemed totally alien to me that your family would ever support your own artistic inclinations. Check the long lines at stands operated by nocturnal vendors, men literally living off the fat of the land, for clear indication of how many people confront-on a nightly basis-the outlawed practice of eating far too near bedtime. After establishing herself in her parent's house ‘living on the fat of the land,’ Katherine began gathering information about her friends' and family's business affairs. Since Rachel was busy living off the fat of the land (read: her mother) she told me she could drive me to school until my dad decided I was responsible enough to own a car myself. The rank and file, I'm sorry to say, have lived off the fat of the land put there by our union forefathers and foremothers. It is also too simplistic to think of all monks as living off the fat of the land and benefiting from the labour of others. Synonyms lead a very comfortable life, be very rich, want for nothing, live off the fat of the land Derivatives fatless adjective ˈfatləsˈfætləs So in conclusion, Surin's ginger chicken did not pass muster - unless you're Lauren and you like your chicken fatless and flavorless. Example sentencesExamples Spanish researchers tested a fatless sunflower seed meal in an experiment that mimicked the body's digestive process. Baked once and stored in tins, fatless, sugarless squares of dough were cooked a second time before being distributed to men about to embark on a sea voyage or land battle. His strong arms took her in, gathering her into the fatless curves of his body. There are stalls on cookware for waterless and fatless cooking, herbal medicine, and home-made health products. fatly adverb ˈfatliˈfætli For now, revel in being human and save extraordinary tasks for next week, when the full moon rolls fatly into your sign, and you'll be able to handle them with ease. Example sentencesExamples They were like grapes glistening fatly in the sun. But even when the loaf is squatting fatly in the oven I can't quite believe I've actually created bread - a process both immensely satisfying and which stirs something pleasantly primal deep inside. fattish adjective ˈfatɪʃˈfædɪʃ The eyes, mouth, and nose were worn away, with small, fattish yellow worms crawling around. Example sentencesExamples I am inside the pub at the appointed hour, standing at the bar next to a short, fattish man who also happens to be wearing a blue jacket. It was fattish (Mike insisted it was average) and overly cuddly. Origin Old English fǣtt 'well fed, plump', also 'fatty, oily', of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch vet and German feist. People have been described as fat since Anglo-Saxon times. The English writer George Orwell said in 1939, ‘I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?’ Cyril Connolly echoed this in 1944 when he said that ‘Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.’ For some women fat is a feminist issue—the title of a 1978 book by Susie Orbach. The Bible gives us live on the fat of the land as a way of saying that we have the best of everything. It comes from the Book of Genesis, in Pharaoh's promise to Joseph and his family, ‘Ye shall eat the fat of the land’. Fat here represents an old sense of the noun meaning ‘the richest or choicest part of something’, which now survives only in this phrase. The fat is in the fire is recorded from the mid 16th century, when it referred to the complete failure of a plan. People spending time chatting in a leisurely way can be said to be chewing the fat. The origin of the expression is not entirely clear—it may have first been used in the Indian Army—but the most likely explanation is that it derives from the similarity between the movements of the jaw in chewing through fat or gristle and those involved in talking animatedly. See also opera, prodigal Rhymes at, bat, brat, cat, chat, cravat, drat, expat, flat, frat, gat, gnat, hat, hereat, high-hat, howzat, lat, mat, matt, matte, Montserrat, Nat, outsat, pat, pit-a-pat, plait, plat, prat, Rabat, rat, rat-tat, Sadat, sat, scat, Sebat, shabbat, shat, skat, slat, spat, splat, sprat, stat, Surat, tat, that, thereat, tit-for-tat, vat, whereat noun.1 phr. Definition of fat in US English: fat nounfatfæt 1A natural oily or greasy substance occurring in animal bodies, especially when deposited as a layer under the skin or around certain organs. 脂肪；肥肉 Example sentencesExamples When I went from a girl's body to a woman's body with natural fat in places, I freaked out. The changes are expected to enable the method to provide accurate readings that are unaffected by skin color or body fat. Insulin resistance correlates with visceral fat measured by waist circumference or waist to hip ratio. This outer layer of body fat provides insulation from low temperatures. By late adolescence, girls have twice the body fat of boys, and boys have one-third greater muscle mass than girls. Just beneath the surface of the skin is a thin layer of subcutaneous fat. Your body has learned to use it sparingly as it relies heavily on fat for fuel. Bacon without all the fat, rind, and, er, flavour. Jan remembers eating bacon fat as a savoury spread instead of butter on bread. But a friend said I would burn more fat by doing strength training before cardio. With a very sharp knife, score the fat of the lamb, creating a crisscross pattern. At the same time, it stalls the metabolic processes that burn fat for fuel. And she praised the television advert with fat dripping from a cigarette end as a group of friends smoke in a pub. One simple rule is to trim all excess fat from meat. Fry over a medium heat until the fat runs and the bacon turns golden at the edges. Sauté the bacon in a large frying pan until browned and the fat starts to run. Hydroxycut can also help you burn stored fat for energy while sparing your precious muscle. Not much hair, we don't hibernate, and only in the age of super-sizing have we learned to put on a truly impressive layer of body fat. To lose body fat, you should eat fewer calories and increase your exercise. Trim the fat from meat and poultry, says Potter, because pesticides and other additives concentrate there. Synonyms fatty tissue, fat cells, blubber, adipose tissue 1.1 A fatty substance made from animal or plant products, used in cooking. （烹饪用的动物或植物）脂油 Example sentencesExamples When the skillet is hot, add enough oil or other cooking fat to thinly coat the bottom of the pan. Butter has a lower melting point than hard white fats such as lard and hardened vegetable cooking fat. He placed the meat in the bottom of the pot along with a little bit of cooking fat. Tesco and Waitrose have also promised to cut the use of such fats in own-brand food. He now operates from a van in the Hull area, filtering and cleaning catering cooking fat at hospitals, universities and schools. According to respected gerontologist Kazuhiko Taira, the most common cooking fat used traditionally in Okinawa is lard. Pour a thin layer of oil or melt a couple of large tablespoons of dripping or fat in another roasting tin on top of the stove until smoking hot. Whenever possible I cook from scratch, using fresh and organic ingredients, keeping animal fat, sugar and salt to a minimum That being done, the flesh was raked into small shreds and blended with the warm cooking fat to form a rustic paste. Under the new rules, how does one dispose of cooking oil and fat? I took no sugar, no butter and no other cooking fat of any sort because to get these rare commodities I would have had to ask Stewart to give me some. Melt the dripping or fat in a frying pan and add the onion. Instead, I just soaked fruits directly in liquors, without adding sugar or fat, which is what I used to do before. Most high-fat equine foods use an animal fat high in saturated fats rather than vegetable oils. We are working with manufacturers and suppliers to lower sugar, salt and fat in ingredients. A tablespoon of fat - butter, bacon grease, mild oil - is gently warmed in a small, trustworthy skillet. The fire had started accidentally when fat from the chip pan caught alight. Cheaper chocolate contains some animal or vegetable fat. Two pieces of unrecognisable chicken coated in artificial breadcrumbs and deep fried in greasy fat coming up. Who would decide what constituted an unnecessary level of fat in various foods. Synonyms cooking oil, animal fat, vegetable fat, grease 1.2 The presence of excess fat in a person or animal, causing them to appear corpulent. 肥胖 he was a tall man, running to fat 他个子高，而且在快速发胖。 Example sentencesExamples Losing just a few pounds of excess fat will go a long way toward improving your health. Researchers say those with excess fat around the stomach - the so-called apple shape - are also less healthy than full-figured women. A survey shows that these people are more vulnerable to diseases linked to excessive fat. Research among 38,000 adults found the average man is now an ‘apple’ shape - meaning they carry excess fat on their waist. These supplements should be mainstays for any guy looking to add bulk while keeping off fat. Aim to keep your pulse rate between 65 and 75 per cent at first, as this will help to burn any excess fat as well as increasing your cardio-vascular fitness. You don't necessarily lose your powers if you're grey or turning to fat. Many active people are curious about their body composition and wonder what percent of their weight is excess fat. People who carry more weight around their waistlines are at greater health risks than individuals who carry their excess fat in the hips and thighs. He was six foot one, and he never went to fat the way a lot of other policemen did. You decided to get healthy, put on muscle and maybe lose a few pounds of excess fat. As you gain strength, lose excess fat, and begin to look better in your clothes, revel in it. Carrying excess fat around the stomach, being ‘apple shaped’, is already known to be potentially damaging to health. I could hear the hard breathing of Senor Nunez across from me and could almost see in my mind's eye his nasal passages, suffocated by the large amounts of unnecessary fat in his face and throat. I can even afford to carry excess fat, having had more than enough to eat in recent months and years. He acknowledged that eating clean played a major role in ridding fat in the area and helping his abs show through. Better diets are allowing people to grow stronger than in the 1950s, but much of the extra calorie intake is turning to fat, leading to bulkier waistlines. The zoo said that the adoption of the practice is also aimed at helping the big cats reduce excessive fat. He was one of those fortunate athletes who, although very strongly built, never tended to run to fat. The presence of excess fat in the abdomen is an independent predictor of risk factors and mortality. Synonyms fatness, plumpness, stoutness, heaviness, chubbiness, tubbiness, portliness, rotundity, podginess, flabbiness, bulk, excessive weight 1.3Chemistry Any of a group of natural esters of glycerol and various fatty acids, which are solid at room temperature and are the main constituents of animal and vegetable fat. 〔化〕（天然）油脂，脂肪酸。比较OIL Compare with oil Example sentencesExamples The 12-ounce bowl contains 25 g protein and only 7 g fat. Whole-wheat foods also contain high levels of healthy monounsaturated fats, protein and B vitamin. Sucrose is also the basic plant biochemical building block, and can be converted to proteins, fats, and organic acids. The energy that every body needs is derived from carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. In an effort to be just a little healthier, we're opting for a peanut butter without hydrogenated fat. Though cashews are not technically nuts (they're seeds), they are high in heart healthy monounsaturated fat. For various reasons, those foods rich in saturated fat offer compensations in a bleak world. I thought triglycerides were fats, so shouldn't he avoid fats? Olive oil is very low in saturated fats and loaded with healthy monounsaturated fats, so choose it over others. Similarly the more polyunsaturated fat in a product, the more tocopherol it will need to contain. adjectivefatfæt 1(of a person or animal) having a large amount of excess flesh. （人，动物）肥胖的 the driver was a fat, wheezing man 司机是个气喘吁吁的大胖子。 Example sentencesExamples I ate 20 nuggets and a chicken sandwich meal and Rob kept on throwing things at me and calling me a fat pig. The case against fat proceeds on the assumption that if a fat person becomes thin, that person will acquire the health characteristics of people who were thin in the first place. The link between the daily traffic jams outside schools and the bored, fat teenagers in the people carriers seemed to escape the members of the obesity taskforce. Shell makes an interesting point about very fat people: in order to carry that enormous extra weight around with them, they have much more powerful muscles than less fat people do. I opened the door and came face to face with a fat janitor smoking a cigarette and operating an extraordinarily loud vacuum. She was sitting between a fat man who wheezed a lot and a woman who definitely overdid the perfume. I'm sitting at the library across from a very skinny woman and I'm thinking about how fat I am. She was about Hanna's age and looked nice and friendly: short, a little plump but not fat, with long red hair and freckled face. He was a large, plump man with a fat gut hanging over his belt. Your eyes flash all round the platform to see if there are any hugely fat people you can hide behind - has he seen you yet? The same white-and-orange hamster, named Honey, resided in a small cage cleaned out once a week and had grown so fat that she could hardly squeeze through cardboard tubes. I don't know how I can look at my stupid, fat bulk in the mirror every day. She was only plump, not fat, but in those girls' eyes, she was a whale. Everyday, I see people not much older than me, fat and enslaved to cigarettes and/or alcohol struggling to get on/off a bus let alone walking somewhere. I've been visiting a few suburban areas in our country over the last month and have to say that I'm shocked at how disgustingly fat people have become. Go on a diet with your pet - if you have a fat dog at home, like we do. He was 67, so fat that he could hardly walk, gluttonous, in ill health and within eight months of death. Sows are too fat upon entering the farrowing house. Despite the ‘real’ people portrayed, I've yet to see a fat person on board or someone with bad hygiene. Cue whinge after whinge after pitiful whinge about how fat she thinks she is, and how much weight she must have put on since entering the house. Synonyms plump, stout, overweight, heavy, large, solid, chubby, portly, rotund, flabby, paunchy, pot-bellied, beer-bellied, dumpy, meaty, broad in the beam, of ample proportions, falstaffian 1.1 (of an animal bred for food) made plump for slaughter. （为食用而饲养的动物）育肥的 Example sentencesExamples In York Cattle Market the following week there would be one of the biggest auction sales of fat pigs since before the war. The market re-opened for the sale of fat cattle and sheep. We had 2,225 fat sheep on Tuesday and the best lambs made up to 145p/kilo. While fat cow and bull prices are still weak, feeder cattle prices are strong. The limit of his agrarian radicalism was a demand, conceded by the British, for the removal of differential between Irish fat cattle and animals fattened in Britain. 1.2 Containing much fat. 油腻的；肥的 fat bacon 油腻的熏咸肉。 Example sentencesExamples Use 3 rashers of smoked, fat, streaky bacon with the rind taken off. Use thin cut smoked streaky bacon as fat as you can get it. But it is also about three fat rashers of Gloucester Old Spot bacon on thick white bread with ketchup. The stuffing was seasoned with salt and the bird coated with flour and strips of fat bacon and then roasted in the black oven pot with coals on the lid to maintain an even temperature. Synonyms fatty, greasy, oily, oleaginous, unctuous 1.3 Large in bulk or circumference. 体积大的；粗的 a fat cigarette 粗支香烟。 Example sentencesExamples Peer over your plate to see the deft hands of prep chef Samuel Ramirez shape cornmeal-molasses dough into fat hamburger buns. And then there is a guy smoking a fat cigarette that surely contains less tobacco than greenery. It's a bar where you can enjoy good company, a fat cigar, a dainty cigarette and a glass of fine red. The risotto turned out to be excellent and very well seasoned, with its fat grains of al dente rice and its large chunks of tasty mushrooms. But you don't need to be a criminal mastermind to target our rather fat and sluggish financial institutions. We sought refuge in the comfort of pipes, nursery food, big fat armchairs in stuffy, overheated rooms and low-risk jobs for life. Last year, Arthritis New Zealand ran billboards featuring a middle-aged woman sucking on a fat marijuana cigarette. Eventually he would come up, sit down, then carefully roll himself a fat, untidy cigarette, spilling some tobacco in the process. With a mid-engined layout, a fat tyre at each corner and your own bulk almost as low as it can go, the weight distribution is perfect, and the handling truly sublime. Yet the questions remain: Are clean lungs and a fatter wallet worth my sanity? In order to attend you need not just a fat wallet but the right connections. Sometimes the balance teeters in one direction, but mostly I try to even things out by eating a salad on a day after eating a big fat steak with bacon. The force of fat raindrops hitting my head was hard enough to make me wince. She selected a very fat cigarette which she lit with a petrol lighter, and grinned as it issued a rich sweet-smelling odour. She then turned back and a female friend leaned down, took what appeared to be a fat, hand-rolled cigarette and lit it. Synonyms thick, big, chunky, substantial, extended, long 1.4informal (of an asset or opportunity) financially substantial or desirable. 〈非正式〉（财产，机会）相当多（或大）的 a fat profit 丰厚的利润。 fat motion picture deals Example sentencesExamples More than fame, more than fortune, more than a fat cookbook contract, what they really crave is a good sandwich. While they are buying well-known brand names and waiting for prestige and fat profits to result, they tend to forget the major difference between home and abroad. He is not the first person to be sacked for missing targets and to walk out with a fat cheque, but what the bankers really disliked was the cut of his jib. Thanks in part to fat fees from those captive funds and betting its own capital and trading prowess, the bank did very nicely thank you. I'm just glad Rob didn't win (though he's got his hands on the money via matrimony anyway), and that Rupert got a nice fat cheque. All my children have spent time in excellent examples of both, but I have to say I find nothing concentrates head teachers' minds more than the termly handing over of the fat cheque. And when the great boom began and the country's cities began to develop, there was a rush to profit from the fat contracts on offer. For years, Hong Kong's developers - owners of some of the most expensive real estate in the world - have enjoyed fat profit margins. A company making big league profits and paying fat dividends to shareholders should be ashamed of its insulting pay offer to the people who actually do the work. He might have assumed a lower profile, but he didn't disappear like many others with a fat cheque, a set of golf clubs and a one-way ticket to Florida. And so what if they're getting a big fat pay cheque - the money is commensurate with their sporting talent, not a measure of their morals. And even if they do not form the next Government, they stand to receive fat pension cheques whilst they continue to work and earn. Because the affordable homes remain owned or part-owned by whichever housing association is involved, they cannot be sold on for fat profits. Fat reduction brought fat times for much of the food industry in the early 1990s, helping to spawn such megabrands as Healthy Choice. The country's attempts since the 1970s to build a diversified economy from the fat profits of higher oil process have failed miserably. For the rest, entering the entertainment world means having a colourful lifestyle, fat monetary rewards and an enviable social status. The fat profits in the sector have driven the number of developers to 30,000 from 4,200 in 1991. The press has done a public service exposing this government's fondness for spin, rich businessmen and fat donation cheques. Mrs Dobson said the task of the trust has become more difficult over the years as property prices escalated and they had to compete with developers hoping to make fat profits. So what happens to your big fat pension fund in these circumstances? Synonyms large, substantial, considerable, sizeable 1.5informal Used ironically to express the belief that there is none or very little of something. 〈非正式〉“极大的”；“很多的”（用作反话，表示没有或几乎没有） fat chance she had of influencing him 她拥有左右他的可能性“极大”。 a fat lot of good that'll do him Example sentencesExamples The reason one goes here is to pray for a healthy and happy pregnancy and trouble free birth - fat chance on the first score so hopefully the birth will be ok. I gave up - there wasn't a fat lot of difference anyway. Such scaremongering is likely to do the nation's health a fat lot of good. On the other hand, you be nice to me… and a fat lot of good it'll do you. But fat chance that such a rational, liberal and secular proposal would ever get through here. But according to a report issued last week, there is fat chance of this in our part of the world. There is fat chance of Tosh forgetting about this season, which surely has the makings of a magical 30-goal one. Ideally, Heaney's talk would be broadcast on the radio but there is fat chance of that. Maybe the cause is so great or maybe the suffering is so intolerable that the ends justify any means - fat chance, but maybe. This won't mean a fat lot to most of you, but the eventual results might be interesting. She just didn't like crowds most of the time, except when she could escape notice in them - fat chance. There is a similarly fat chance of us accepting the other unquestioned assumptions underpinning misanthropic doom-mongering about health. A groovy looking website with nothing to say or to do is a fat lot of use. But transparency is a fat lot of good if the newspapers don't bother to tell the public. A fat lot of good that did for our magazine industry. A fat lot of good that is to a traveller who would be many miles away by the time it got there. For the first year I raved and plotted revenge, and a fat lot of good it did me. Ah well, it gives them something to write about, I suppose not a fat lot happens in Solihull at the best of times. The situation requires strong political leadership all round - fat chance. In any case, there is fat chance of finding alternative employment in this area, which to an untutored eye looks rich in natural assets. Synonyms very little, not much, minimal, hardly any 1.6 (of coal) containing a high proportion of volatile oils. （煤）肥的（指挥发油含量高） 1.7 (of wood) containing a high proportion of resin. （煤）肥的（指挥发油含量高） fat pine verbfatfæt archaic Make or become fat. 〈古〉（使）长肥 with object numbers of black cattle are fatted here 大量的菜牛在这儿养得很肥。 no object the hogs have been fatting 这些猪在不停地长膘。 Example sentencesExamples A local publication, The Evening Bulletin said, ‘The reporter had been horrified to see two fatted calves strolling up main street!’ So much like a 19th century professor he appeared, with his thick bristly sideburns covering either well fatted jowl. We're like a prodigal son but we want to come back and get some fatted calf,’ she said. We were compelled to eat rotten biscuits and stinking decaying meat while our officers fatted themselves with the best food and drank the most expensive wines. Phrases the fat is in the fire Something has happened that will surely lead to an unpleasant result or angry reaction. kill the fatted calf Produce one's best food to celebrate, especially at a prodigal's return. （尤指对浪子回头）设宴庆祝 Example sentencesExamples Her mother, Alice, is delighted to see her, but her father, Hank, is not about to kill the fatted calf. But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him. The couple recalls how their parents killed the fatted calf ‘and a hog to boot for the wedding feast which was rounded out by sauerkraut and noodle soup.’ They haven't exactly killed the fatted calf but they have been buying in an awful lot of Guinness for the return of their prodigal son on Saturday. On one hand, it meant that Mother would kill the fatted calf and we would eat exceptionally well. Nevertheless, when he returned to civilian life, Nashville didn't exactly kill the fatted calf for him. Father killed the fatted calf that we were saving in honor of someone who deserved it, not that son of his. It was my turn to be surprised as he opened his mouth and sang clearly, ‘We'll kill the fatted calf tonight so stick around.’ Perhaps for the same reasons, however, the American media has done everything but kill the fatted calf. Throughout the European countryside, the culmination of harvest season has always been a cue for thanksgiving and merrymaking, a time to kill the fatted calf, crack open a few bottles, have a dance and get seasonally sloshed. Synonyms enjoy oneself, make merry, have fun, have a good time, have a wild time, rave, party, have a party, eat, drink, and be merry, revel, roister, carouse, kill the fatted calf, put the flag out, put the flags out live off (or on) the fat of the land Have the best of everything. 过锦衣玉食的生活 Example sentencesExamples It is also too simplistic to think of all monks as living off the fat of the land and benefiting from the labour of others. After establishing herself in her parent's house ‘living on the fat of the land,’ Katherine began gathering information about her friends' and family's business affairs. The rank and file, I'm sorry to say, have lived off the fat of the land put there by our union forefathers and foremothers. Check the long lines at stands operated by nocturnal vendors, men literally living off the fat of the land, for clear indication of how many people confront-on a nightly basis-the outlawed practice of eating far too near bedtime. Since Rachel was busy living off the fat of the land (read: her mother) she told me she could drive me to school until my dad decided I was responsible enough to own a car myself. But there are ways to live off the fat of the land without bleeding it dry. I wished that I was her, and that I had naturally curly hair and that I was an artist, living off the fat of the land, as it were, because it seemed totally alien to me that your family would ever support your own artistic inclinations. It could be said that he lives off the fat of the land. Thanks to the ingenuity of these contraptions' designers and purveyors (people who, one might say, live off the fat of the land), the toils of Sisyphus have been transformed into a healthful pastime. As the play opens under a setting sun we see the care and love the two men have for each other, epitomised by George's tale of a small farm where they can both ‘live off the fat of the land’. Synonyms lead a very comfortable life, be very rich, want for nothing, live off the fat of the land Origin Old English fǣtt ‘well fed, plump’, also ‘fatty, oily’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch vet and German feist. noun.1 phr.
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