Enclosed in our check for$400 to cover the cost of food, exclusive of specially ordered drinks. 随信附一张400美元支票,以支付不包括特别需要酒水在内的所有饭菜费用。
food
[ noun ]
any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
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any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment
<noun.food> food and drink
anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
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Food \Food\, v. t. To supply with food. [Obs.] --Baret.
Food \Food\, n. [OE. fode, AS. f[=o]da; akin to Icel. f[ae][eth]a, f[ae][eth]i, Sw. f["o]da, Dan. & LG. f["o]de, OHG. fatunga, Gr. patei^sthai to eat, and perh. to Skr. p[=a] to protect, L. pascere to feed, pasture, pabulum food, E. pasture. [root]75. Cf. {Feed}, {Fodder} food, {Foster} to cherish.] 1. What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.
Note: In a physiological sense, true aliment is to be distinguished as that portion of the food which is capable of being digested and absorbed into the blood, thus furnishing nourishment, in distinction from the indigestible matter which passes out through the alimentary canal as f[ae]ces.
Note: Foods are divided into two main groups: nitrogenous, or proteid, foods, i.e., those which contain nitrogen, and nonnitrogenous, i.e., those which do not contain nitrogen. The latter group embraces the fats and carbohydrates, which collectively are sometimes termed heat producers or respiratory foods, since by oxidation in the body they especially subserve the production of heat. The proteids, on the other hand, are known as plastic foods or tissue formers, since no tissue can be formed without them. These latter terms, however, are misleading, since proteid foods may also give rise to heat both directly and indirectly, and the fats and carbohydrates are useful in other ways than in producing heat.
2. Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.
This may prove food to my displeasure. --Shak.
In this moment there is life and food For future years. --Wordsworth.
Note: Food is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds, as in food fish or food-fish, food supply.
{Food vacuole} (Zo["o]l.), one of the spaces in the interior of a protozoan in which food is contained, during digestion.
At Drexel he courted RJR Nabisco President F. Ross Johnson, whobegan the bidding war for the food and tobacco giant.
The pesticide, in wide agricultural use in the 1950s and 1960s, built up in the food chain killing many wild birds. Environmentalists hailed the recovery as a triumph for the 1973 Endangered Species Act, now before Congress for re-authorisation.
Outside aid in the form of cash, food, tents, medicine and clothing totaled $84 million from 45 countries, the U.N. Disaster Relief Organization reported.
The highly controversial theory says such impacts kicked up dust and triggered smoky fires that blocked enough sunlight to freeze many creatures and deprive others of food supplies.
But Manville executive Mr. Stephens said the Denver-based company's research indicates that the output of one-and-a-half new paper machines will be needed to supply demand for high-quality paperboard for food and beverage containers by 1995.
The food service and lodging products division is "flop and slop."
Greyhound, a food and consumer products company that produces about 1,000 buses a year for intercity use, said it expects the transaction to be completed in July.
Wellman and Corbett toted 200 pounds of food and gear including hammocks that were suspended from hooks placed into the rock as they slept.
Food shares were mostly higher on continued speculation that Japan will be forced to make concessions to the U.S. on the agricultural trade issue, allowing food companies to take advantage of cheaper imported agricultural products.
She has a telephone in the cab atop her tower, and in her nearby cabin watches a battery-powered television, stores food in a propane-powered refrigerator and cooks on a propane-burning stove.
One of the grievances in Lithuania, for instance, is that the Lithuanians are short of food because half of what they produce is shipped to the Russian republic.
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette called Mr. Flaherty this year's "Politician Who Will Make the Arts Festival Safe for Society," and suggested he confine his critiques to food booth offerings.
But then I had to leave, and I made my way through the fighting until I was able to reach my mother's house." A Red Cross spokesman said many people were donating food to the refugees _ "as much as they can spare."
The Peranakan restaurant, serving nyonya food, is in an old Chinese house in Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lok.
A pound of paper packaging reduces food waste by 1.41 pounds.
Millions of them may flood out of countries suffering from insufficient food, housing and jobs into those where conditions are better.
Ironically, consumers may be courting food poisoning in their haste to get the looks and tastes of mother's kitchen without any of the bother.
Lucky's partially completed restructuring plan calls for the company to shed all operations other than its core food business, and to repurchase as much as 27% of its 52.7 million common shares at $40 each.
RJR Nabisco Inc., Atlanta, said it agreed to sell its Dromedary food operations to Burns, Philp & Co. of Australia for a sum that wasn't disclosed.
The restaurants had been serving such fare as baby spring chicken and chocolate decadence cake since the council stopped a city food service that had cost $4,600 per year.
The broadcast did not say how many speculators were caught, but newspapers have been increasingly critical of "dubious people" handling distribution of medicine, food and clothing from some centers in Bucharest.
Besides luxury-hotel investment and management, it also has interests in property, transportation, airline catering, food manufacturing and retailing and restaurants.
But to compensate the U.S. for the continued restrictions, Japan agreed to lower tariffs on 16 other food products, and to ease import restraints on peanuts, lentils and chickpeas over the same period.
Throughout the 1980-88 war with Iran and after, Iraq bought most of its food from the United States, Canada and Australia, all now committed to the embargo.
The aid is in addition to the $119 million aid package President Bush announced earlier this summer, nearly half of which was earmarked for food assistance.
A 0.5 per cent increase in food prices was more than offset by a 0.8 per cent decline in the cost of energy. The 'core' producer price index, which excludes food and energy, fell 1 per cent.
A 0.5 per cent increase in food prices was more than offset by a 0.8 per cent decline in the cost of energy. The 'core' producer price index, which excludes food and energy, fell 1 per cent.
In Geneva, the International Red Cross today appealed for $357,000 to provide aid _ mostly food and medicines _ to earthquake victims.
The price of a gallon of gasoline jumped from 7 cents to more than $2 and the cost of many food products tripled and quadrupled.
For many in this country where food is a national obsession, Bocuse remains "the emperor" of cuisine, despite the rating of three toques, by the 1989 edition of the Gault-Millau guidebook, which deemed his food not in step with the times.