hops [医] 忽布, 蛇麻花, 蜱酒花
hops[ noun ]
twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer
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- When the head of new products for Ford Motor Co.'s unit here wants to talk strategy with his boss, he hops on the company plane for a 55-minute flight to Curacao.
- The ship's commander (Yuri Gumba) hops with both feet together and has other steps which portray him as a childish madman.
- But Michael James-Reed, though he hops around effectively in Edgar's near-nude disguise as Poor Tom, plays Edgar as too much of a wimp.
- The Aloha plane involved in the accident had made nearly 90,000 flights performing short-haul, inter-island hops in a salt-water environment described by safety experts as requiring unusual anti-corrosion measures.
- (The upward hops from ground to car-roofs are particularly impressive.) As directed by Yvonne Brewster, the acting is extrovert and physical above all.
- Kirin Brewery Co. has responded shrewdly to the recent craze for imported premium beers by developing Heartland Beer, a brew so heavy with the flavor of hops it would make a Pennsylvania steelworker proud.
- "You can not perform to your maximum ability, doing it this way, and I didn't," he said. "It's the wrong way to do things." His intention now is to perform by making short hops from town to town for a few years or more.
- And there are more short hops now.
- Astronauts will test hops for the effects of radiation and weightlessness.
- He hops on planes and goes directly to faraway mines to pick out his own stones and diamond roughs.
- He hops into Ca'Dario's motor launch for the 30-minute ride to Venice's airport, where Ferruzzi's nine-seater jet takes him to Paris for a business meeting.
- He promises to display a model of the vehicle in his Washington office, and hops into the driver's seat of a real one that had just come off the assembly line.
- He hops over the fence where the cows feed, but for some reason he just can't see the fence down in the back near the swamp," Winkler said.
- The sun was at its highest. They looked at me in mild surprise when I set off between the fields of neatly-trained hops.
- After further research, the company blamed what it calls "artificial foam" on a certain "man-made" hops extract used in Miller's brews.
- And a company plane hops back and forth daily.