stew

noun

/stjuː/

/stuː/

[uncountable, countable]Idioms

a dish of meat and/or vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a container that has a lid (= cover)炖的菜，煨的菜（可荤可素）
- beef stew and dumplings牛肉炖丸子
- I'm making a stew for lunch.我炖个菜中午吃。
Topics Foodc1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
Stew is used after these nouns:
beef
fish
lamb
…
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘cauldron’): from Old French estuve (related to estuver ‘heat in steam’), probably based on Greek tuphos ‘smoke, steam’. The noun sense (mid 18th cent.) is directly from the verb (dating from late Middle English).

Idioms

get (yourself)/be in a stew (about/over something)

(informal) to become/feel very anxious or upset about something（为某事）坐立不安，心烦意乱
- There’s no point getting in a stew about it.没有必要为此争论不休。

stew

verb

/stjuː/

/stuː/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they stew	/stjuː/ /stuː/
he / she / it stews	/stjuːz/ /stuːz/
past simple stewed	/stjuːd/ /stuːd/
past participle stewed	/stjuːd/ /stuːd/
-ing form stewing	/ˈstjuːɪŋ/ /ˈstuːɪŋ/

Idioms

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[transitive, intransitive] stew (something) to cook something slowly in liquid in a closed dish; (of food) to be cooked in this way在封闭的盘子里用液体慢慢地煮东西；（食物）以这种方式烹调
- stewed apples炖苹果
- The meat needs to stew for two hours.这肉得炖两小时。
see also stewedTopics Cooking and eatingc1
[intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) to think or worry about something思考；担忧
- I've been stewing over the problem for a while.这个问题我已经考虑了一会儿。
- Leave him to stew.让他自个儿想想。

Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘cauldron’): from Old French estuve (related to estuver ‘heat in steam’), probably based on Greek tuphos ‘smoke, steam’. The noun sense (mid 18th cent.) is directly from the verb (dating from late Middle English).

Idioms

let somebody stew in their own juice

(informal) to leave somebody to worry and suffer the unpleasant effects of their own actions让某人自作自受