Industrialized farming methods produce cheap meat products: beef, pork and chicken.
工业化的农作方式生产出廉价的肉类制品——牛肉、猪肉和鸡肉。
新概念英语第三册
Lesson 47 Too high a price
📚 句中词汇解析
从本句中提取的重要词汇
n. 农事，耕作;饲养（家禽）;（租税等的）包收;
v. 耕种，出租(farm的ing形式);
💡 farm务农+ing行业,状态，行为 →耕作
"Intensive farming in the area has caused severe degeneration of the land."
这个地区的集约化农业使得土壤严重贫瘠化。
近义：farm, husbandry, tillage, tilth, cultivation, agriculture
vt.& vi. 生产;产生;制作;创作;
vt. 制造;出示;引起;[经济学]生利;
n. 产品;产量;产额;结果;
💡 pro向前+duce引导，带来→引向前→生产
"We expect writers to produce more and better works."
我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品.
近义：induce, make, net, pay, procure, render
反义：use, spend, deplete, dissipate, drain, exhaust
n. 牛肉;菜牛（饲养以供肉食的牛）;体力;怨言，牢骚;
vi. 抱怨，大发牢骚;
💡 bou, bov, bu 与牛相关
"The beef I had at supper was very delicious."
我晚餐吃的牛肉味道很好.
近义：reinforce, shore, bolster, boost, brace, nag
n. 猪肉;〈美俚〉支持政党上台所分到的好处，政治分肥;〈古〉猪;
💡 pork=porc=pig猪 → 猪的肉 → 猪肉
"a leg of pork"
猪腿肉
近义：pigmeat, hog, pig, swine
n. 鸡;鸡肉;胆小鬼;懦夫;
adj. 胆怯的;幼小的;胆小的;
vi. 以畏缩的方式去做，失去勇气;在最后一刻因胆怯而退出了;
💡 chick小鸡+en表名词 →小鸡
"chicken breast in aspic"
鸡脯冻
近义：wimp, cower, flinch, funk, pullet, quitter
反义：haywire, heedless, imprudent, inadvertent, incautious, inflexible