Definition of beef in English:
beef
noun biːfbif
1mass noun The flesh of a cow, bull, or ox, used as food.
牛肉there was the smell of roast beefas modifier beef cattle- Cut small slits in your pork or beef roast before cooking and insert half cloves to season.
- Visitors can barbecue food ranging from beef, pork to potato and fish.
- Although beef is still the meat most often consumed by adults in Quebec, consumption of red meat has decreased since 1971.
- Main courses included roast beef, lamb and pork from the carvery, steak and kidney pie, poached chicken with mushroom and asparagus sauce and vegetable lasagne.
- Lodge staff served the meal, which consisted of roast chicken, roast beef, potato croquettes, yellow rice, mixed vegetables and mieliepap.
- She wraps her finger in a clean paper towel, checks her steak and turns off the flame beneath the beef and vegetable flavored soup she's preparing for Sarah.
- Explain that it is your mission, as a host and a cook, to take their experience of roast beef to a new level.
- In a saucepan over medium heat, combine bacon, sausage and beef.
- He warmed and ate some of the beef but didn't sleep.
- He dropped his stack of papers and envelopes onto the table, and took my plate to cut up the beef, cheese, and slice the bread thinner without a word.
- Jay had ordered roast beef sandwhiches in panini bread and iced chocolate for her and iced coffee for himself.
- I have to say that the roast rib eye of beef in wholemeal bread was superb.
- Start the potatoes first, then make the green peppercorn sauce; keep it warm over low heat while you cook the beef.
- Using a sharp knife, carve the beef into broad thin slices, holding the knife blade at a 45-degree angle to the top of the meat.
- Although beef is the store's primary product, fresh vegetables are also available.
- Make meat the last thing you put in your shopping cart to ensure that the beef stays cold until you get home.
- My favourite food is roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.
- Guests may enjoy a special meal of roast sirloin beef served with mashed potatoes and green vegetable.
- I would bake muffins on the bus in the early morning and roast beef in the afternoon.
- Tuck into steak, roast beef, venison and other red meat at least three times a week
- 1.1Farming count noun A cow, bull, or ox fattened for its meat.〔农〕菜牛a beef sent to the abattoir
- Forage beef thus encompasses at least half of the potential market.
- ‘Get in those saddles and let's get these beeves movin’!’
- Driving across expanses of the West today, one might ask, ‘Where's the beef?’
- We have a neighbor who raises grass fed beef and pastured poultry.
- Finishing beef on grass presents a unique challenge to this re-emerging enterprise.
cow, heifer, bull, bullock, calf, ox
2informal mass noun Flesh with well-developed muscle.
he needs a little more beef on his bones他太瘦了，应该再长点肌肉。
- Although this is typically a powerlifter's split, it is the quickest way to get some serious beef on your bones.
- He's got a bit more beef on his bones now, but he's lost none of his cheerful, boyish looks.
- Geez, how about a Superman with some beef on his bones?
muscle, muscularity, brawn, bulk, heftiness, burliness, huskiness, physiquestrength, powerfulness, robustness, sturdiness, stockiness- 2.1 Strength or power.〈非正式〉气力，力量he was brought in to give the team more beef
他被招来加强球队力量。
- Yes, I know their defense looked good most of the season and Simon was good addition, I just feel they still need more beef up the middle and Wright is, I think, an active playmaker who can stuff the run.
- We definitely need more beef up front.
- The tank size is OK, but you need more beef.
power, brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, burliness, sturdiness, robustness, toughness, hardiness, lustinesspower, influence, dominance, ascendancy, supremacy - 2.2 The substance of a matter.〈非正式〉要点，实质，关键it's more a sketch than a policy—where's the beef?
这与其说是政策，还不如说是草案——问题的关键在哪儿？
- And if we are to entertain such proclamations, then where's the beef?
- But the service territories would not overlap, and since they're mainly looking toward bundled services where's the beef.
- It may well be the sound of the suburbs, drawing on a cacophony of influences born out of a misspent youth, but to paraphrase that great 80s catchphrase, where's the beef?
- That should cover around 15 minutes of gametime, but where is the beef?
- Elgin Dairy Foods, Chicago, beefs up its Research and Development team to support the company's line of 140 formulations and to support the imminent introduction of seven new products in the next year.
- It is certainly willing to take controversial stands like being against high prices and in favour of cheaper pints, but where's the beef?
3informal A complaint or grievance.
〈非正式〉牢骚，怨恨he has a beef with education: it doesn't teach the basics of investing- When they concluded that the truth lied somewhere in between what they were both told, the decision was to bring the two crews together to squash the beef.
- And one of their major beefs with us is having a closed meeting!
- But, for what it's worth, I have no beefs with the current executives.
- Warrington, essentially, your beefs with these films are length and boredom.
- My beef is the lack of communication that often fosters false expectations in patients, who then blame the local doctors when things turn out worse than they hoped.
- As I write in the book, most people who write books or who are in television generally have some beef or some complaint they want to make.
- Michael Hyman told the Chicago Sun Times, ‘We still have a beef… We will review our options.’
- I was using my pension to illustrate that pension inequity was not across the board either and so maybe the beef should be with the NHS and other organisations for their shortcomings.
- They began taking their beefs to the media.
- I didn't think she had a beef against anyone else in our crowd - most of Dana's friends stayed away from the group - so that meant she was coming to bug me some more.
- We would need to see the context of these memos to know what beefs Roberts might have had with the offending words.
- Or are they just using these tragic AIDS deaths to further their own cynical, and often juvenile, beefs with the Church?
- My only beef is with the tone of the way it's been implemented - if you can call it a beef, I don't feel strongly enough about it to start an argument.
- So several of the UK intellectuals' beefs with the US have been addressed in the days since the President's visit.
- Address beefs and concerns directly, not behind peoples’ backs.
- Here's another one of my beefs with judges - and this is the complaint that lawyers oftentimes get - that we file frivolous lawsuits.
- One of my biggest beefs with the station is how little students get back from it in return for how much of the station's funding is received from the students.
- I do not want beefs and gripes - I need genuine areas of difficulty which are causing work life imbalance.
complaint, criticism, objection, protestation, cavil, quibble, grievance, grumble, moan, grumbling, carpinginformal gripe, griping, grouse, grousing, whinge, whingeing, nitpicking4US informal A criminal charge.
〈美，非正式〉犯罪指控；罪名getting caught with pot in the sixties was a narco beef在60年代吸食大麻被逮到就可以被控以吸毒罪。
- After checking police reports and court documents, the website said that if anything, he may have spent a day or so in jail for a drunk driving beef.
- He had busted him on a robbery beef involving a cellular phone.
- He was framed for political reasons during the last election and was sent up for a 21 years on a homicide beef.
charge, accusation, arraignment, citation, summons
verb biːfbif
informal no object Complain.
〈非正式〉抱怨，发牢骚he was beefing about how the recession was killing the business他抱怨经济衰退如何坏了他的生意。
- I can't remember what I was beefing about with regard to the internet. I did used to get wound up about stuff but I've got it off my chest already.
- Because of that he still felt like beefing about something
- They beef about record-level deficits.
- You were totally oblivious of the curious expressions of others as you beefed about this to the manager directly and loudly.
- As I tell my students when they beef about my tests: Life isn't multiple choice, True-False or an Essay question; more often than not it's short answer--and your grade is based on your understanding of the context of the question.
protest, grumble, moan, whine, bleat, carp, cavil, lodge a complaint, make a complaint, make a fuss
Phrasal Verbs
beef something up
Give more substance or strength to something.
〈非正式〉充实，加强cost-cutting measures are planned to beef up performance为了提高绩效，正在计划降低成本。
- So they said, OK, if we're going to do it, we have to beef it up or something because it was a much milder version when we…
- We have tried to get players on loan, but there's no point in bringing them in just to beef the bench up.
- It is beefing up its capabilities in electronic investigation and cross-border operations.
- The security, I think it is important that we recognize it and beef it up.
- If your foreign policy results in swelling the ranks of your existing enemies, and creating whole new enemies, you had better start beefing up your defence.
- We were writing regulations, we were beefing up legislation.
- Mechanics have reinforced the car's chassis with extra steelwork and have beefed up the suspension to take extra load.
- A circle of preschoolers listening to a story are beefing up their language abilities.
- Besides having the public police drivers, Hall said he's aiming to improve public safety by beefing up on vehicle inspections and driver monitoring.
- Hence the search for other PhDs and in the meantime, beefing up my training skills to that of a performance consultant.
- The cover is respectful but distinctive, retaining the mood of the original but beefing up the arrangement with a full, cinematic, sound.
- He's tried to be tough on national defense, talking about beefing up our defenses at home, in terms of homeland security and abroad.
- We heard that they were beefing up security in anticipation of serious protests.
- These checkpoints were beefed up following a number of casualties, wounds and death to U.S. forces.
- Safety is on the forefront of everyone's minds, and the government is beefing up security everywhere.
- Several malls have beefed up security in light of the present crime climate.
- We've got to have beefed up intelligence, including much stronger human intelligence.
- Additionally, doors, boots and hatches have been beefed up to provide solid operation.
- So those penalties will be beefed up substantially.
- So far protests from campaigners have been muted, but security around the base has been beefed up with additional police patrols.
toughen up, strengthen, build up, reinforce, substantiate, consolidate, invigorate, improve, flesh out
Origin
Middle English: from Old French boef, from Latin bos, bov- 'ox'.
We often find that after the Norman Conquest people used French words for an animal's meat and the English word for the animal itself. Beef is from French, and cow and ox are native English words, whereas bull was adopted from Scandinavian. Beef, meaning ‘a complaint’ or ‘to complain’, was originally American, from the mid 19th century. The first person to write of the kind of beef possessed by a muscular man was American writer Herman Melville (1819–91), author of Moby-Dick. The British are so well known for eating beef that a French insult for an Englishman is un rosbif (‘a roast beef’). In English too, beefeater (early 17th century) was originally a term of contempt for a well-fed domestic servant. Now a Beefeater is a Yeoman Warder or Yeoman of the Guard at the Tower of London, a nickname first used in 1671.
Rhymes
aperitif, belief, brief, chief, enfeoff, fief, grief, interleaf, leaf, Leif, lief, Mazar-e-Sharif, misbelief, motif, naif, O'Keeffe, reef, seif, Sharif, sheaf, shereef, sportif, Tenerife, thief
Definition of beef in US English:
beef
nounbifbēf
1The flesh of a cow, bull, or ox, used as food.
牛肉- In a saucepan over medium heat, combine bacon, sausage and beef.
- Although beef is still the meat most often consumed by adults in Quebec, consumption of red meat has decreased since 1971.
- He dropped his stack of papers and envelopes onto the table, and took my plate to cut up the beef, cheese, and slice the bread thinner without a word.
- He warmed and ate some of the beef but didn't sleep.
- Using a sharp knife, carve the beef into broad thin slices, holding the knife blade at a 45-degree angle to the top of the meat.
- Tuck into steak, roast beef, venison and other red meat at least three times a week
- Start the potatoes first, then make the green peppercorn sauce; keep it warm over low heat while you cook the beef.
- Make meat the last thing you put in your shopping cart to ensure that the beef stays cold until you get home.
- Visitors can barbecue food ranging from beef, pork to potato and fish.
- Cut small slits in your pork or beef roast before cooking and insert half cloves to season.
- Although beef is the store's primary product, fresh vegetables are also available.
- Explain that it is your mission, as a host and a cook, to take their experience of roast beef to a new level.
- Lodge staff served the meal, which consisted of roast chicken, roast beef, potato croquettes, yellow rice, mixed vegetables and mieliepap.
- I would bake muffins on the bus in the early morning and roast beef in the afternoon.
- My favourite food is roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.
- Guests may enjoy a special meal of roast sirloin beef served with mashed potatoes and green vegetable.
- Main courses included roast beef, lamb and pork from the carvery, steak and kidney pie, poached chicken with mushroom and asparagus sauce and vegetable lasagne.
- Jay had ordered roast beef sandwhiches in panini bread and iced chocolate for her and iced coffee for himself.
- She wraps her finger in a clean paper towel, checks her steak and turns off the flame beneath the beef and vegetable flavored soup she's preparing for Sarah.
- I have to say that the roast rib eye of beef in wholemeal bread was superb.
- 1.1Farming A cow, bull, or ox fattened for its meat.〔农〕菜牛
- Finishing beef on grass presents a unique challenge to this re-emerging enterprise.
- We have a neighbor who raises grass fed beef and pastured poultry.
- Forage beef thus encompasses at least half of the potential market.
- Driving across expanses of the West today, one might ask, ‘Where's the beef?’
- ‘Get in those saddles and let's get these beeves movin’!’
cow, heifer, bull, bullock, calf, ox
2informal Flesh or muscle, typically when well developed.
〈非正式〉（尤指发达的）肌肉he needs a little more beef on his bones他太瘦了，应该再长点肌肉。
- He's got a bit more beef on his bones now, but he's lost none of his cheerful, boyish looks.
- Although this is typically a powerlifter's split, it is the quickest way to get some serious beef on your bones.
- Geez, how about a Superman with some beef on his bones?
muscle, muscularity, brawn, bulk, heftiness, burliness, huskiness, physique- 2.1 Strength or power.〈非正式〉气力，力量he's been brought in to give the team more beef
他被招来加强球队力量。
- We definitely need more beef up front.
- Yes, I know their defense looked good most of the season and Simon was good addition, I just feel they still need more beef up the middle and Wright is, I think, an active playmaker who can stuff the run.
- The tank size is OK, but you need more beef.
power, brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, burliness, sturdiness, robustness, toughness, hardiness, lustinesspower, influence, dominance, ascendancy, supremacy
3informal A complaint or grievance.
〈非正式〉牢骚，怨恨he has a beef with American education: it doesn't teach the basics of investing- As I write in the book, most people who write books or who are in television generally have some beef or some complaint they want to make.
- My beef is the lack of communication that often fosters false expectations in patients, who then blame the local doctors when things turn out worse than they hoped.
- So several of the UK intellectuals' beefs with the US have been addressed in the days since the President's visit.
- They began taking their beefs to the media.
- We would need to see the context of these memos to know what beefs Roberts might have had with the offending words.
- Or are they just using these tragic AIDS deaths to further their own cynical, and often juvenile, beefs with the Church?
- My only beef is with the tone of the way it's been implemented - if you can call it a beef, I don't feel strongly enough about it to start an argument.
- I was using my pension to illustrate that pension inequity was not across the board either and so maybe the beef should be with the NHS and other organisations for their shortcomings.
- Address beefs and concerns directly, not behind peoples’ backs.
- Michael Hyman told the Chicago Sun Times, ‘We still have a beef… We will review our options.’
- One of my biggest beefs with the station is how little students get back from it in return for how much of the station's funding is received from the students.
- And one of their major beefs with us is having a closed meeting!
- But, for what it's worth, I have no beefs with the current executives.
- Warrington, essentially, your beefs with these films are length and boredom.
- When they concluded that the truth lied somewhere in between what they were both told, the decision was to bring the two crews together to squash the beef.
- I didn't think she had a beef against anyone else in our crowd - most of Dana's friends stayed away from the group - so that meant she was coming to bug me some more.
- Here's another one of my beefs with judges - and this is the complaint that lawyers oftentimes get - that we file frivolous lawsuits.
- I do not want beefs and gripes - I need genuine areas of difficulty which are causing work life imbalance.
complaint, criticism, objection, protestation, cavil, quibble, grievance, grumble, moan, grumbling, carping4US informal A criminal charge.
〈美，非正式〉犯罪指控；罪名a drunk-driving beef- After checking police reports and court documents, the website said that if anything, he may have spent a day or so in jail for a drunk driving beef.
- He had busted him on a robbery beef involving a cellular phone.
- He was framed for political reasons during the last election and was sent up for a 21 years on a homicide beef.
charge, accusation, arraignment, citation, summons
verbbifbēf
[no object]informal Complain.
〈非正式〉抱怨，发牢骚he was beefing about how the recession was killing the business他抱怨经济衰退如何坏了他的生意。
- As I tell my students when they beef about my tests: Life isn't multiple choice, True-False or an Essay question; more often than not it's short answer--and your grade is based on your understanding of the context of the question.
- They beef about record-level deficits.
- I can't remember what I was beefing about with regard to the internet. I did used to get wound up about stuff but I've got it off my chest already.
- Because of that he still felt like beefing about something
- You were totally oblivious of the curious expressions of others as you beefed about this to the manager directly and loudly.
protest, grumble, moan, whine, bleat, carp, cavil, lodge a complaint, make a complaint, make a fuss
Phrasal Verbs
beef something up
Give more substance or strength to something.
〈非正式〉充实，加强cost-cutting measures are planned to beef up performance为了提高绩效，正在计划降低成本。
- So those penalties will be beefed up substantially.
- Safety is on the forefront of everyone's minds, and the government is beefing up security everywhere.
- We were writing regulations, we were beefing up legislation.
- It is beefing up its capabilities in electronic investigation and cross-border operations.
- So they said, OK, if we're going to do it, we have to beef it up or something because it was a much milder version when we…
- These checkpoints were beefed up following a number of casualties, wounds and death to U.S. forces.
- We have tried to get players on loan, but there's no point in bringing them in just to beef the bench up.
- The security, I think it is important that we recognize it and beef it up.
- Additionally, doors, boots and hatches have been beefed up to provide solid operation.
- The cover is respectful but distinctive, retaining the mood of the original but beefing up the arrangement with a full, cinematic, sound.
- We heard that they were beefing up security in anticipation of serious protests.
- Several malls have beefed up security in light of the present crime climate.
- Besides having the public police drivers, Hall said he's aiming to improve public safety by beefing up on vehicle inspections and driver monitoring.
- We've got to have beefed up intelligence, including much stronger human intelligence.
- If your foreign policy results in swelling the ranks of your existing enemies, and creating whole new enemies, you had better start beefing up your defence.
- So far protests from campaigners have been muted, but security around the base has been beefed up with additional police patrols.
- Mechanics have reinforced the car's chassis with extra steelwork and have beefed up the suspension to take extra load.
- A circle of preschoolers listening to a story are beefing up their language abilities.
- He's tried to be tough on national defense, talking about beefing up our defenses at home, in terms of homeland security and abroad.
- Hence the search for other PhDs and in the meantime, beefing up my training skills to that of a performance consultant.
toughen up, strengthen, build up, reinforce, substantiate, consolidate, invigorate, improve, flesh out
Origin
Middle English: from Old French boef, from Latin bos, bov- ‘ox’.