poach
verb/pəʊtʃ/
/pəʊtʃ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they poach | /pəʊtʃ/ /pəʊtʃ/ |
| he / she / it poaches | /ˈpəʊtʃɪz/ /ˈpəʊtʃɪz/ |
| past simple poached | /pəʊtʃt/ /pəʊtʃt/ |
| past participle poached | /pəʊtʃt/ /pəʊtʃt/ |
| -ing form poaching | /ˈpəʊtʃɪŋ/ /ˈpəʊtʃɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] poach something to cook food, especially fish, gently in a small amount of liquid
enlarge image水煮，炖，煨（尤指鱼） - poached salmon
清炖鲑鱼 - chicken poached in white wine
白酒水煮鸡
- poached salmon
- [transitive] poach something to cook an egg gently in nearly boiling water after removing its shell
水煮（荷包蛋） - [transitive, intransitive] poach (something) to illegally hunt birds, animals or fish on somebody else’s property or without permission
（在他人地界）偷猎，偷捕 - The elephants are poached for their tusks.
为获取象牙而偷猎大象。
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- The elephants are poached for their tusks.
- [transitive, intransitive] to take and use somebody/something that belongs to somebody/something else, especially in a secret, dishonest or unfair way
盗用；挖走（人员等） - poach somebody/something from somebody/something The company poached the contract from their main rivals.
这家公司窃取了其主要竞争对手的合同。 - poach (somebody/something) Several of our employees have been poached by a rival firm.
我们公司有好几名职员被对手公司给挖走了。 - She accused him of poaching her ideas.
她指控他剽窃了她的观点。 - I hope I'm not poaching on your territory (= doing something that is actually your responsibility).
但愿我没有侵犯你的职权。
- poach somebody/something from somebody/something The company poached the contract from their main rivals.
Word Originsenses 1 to 2 late Middle English: from Old French pochier, earlier in the sense ‘enclose in a bag’, from poche ‘bag, pocket’.senses 3 to 4 early 16th cent. (in the sense ‘push roughly together’): apparently related to poke; perhaps partly from French pocher ‘enclose in a bag’, from poche ‘bag, pocket’.