Staples是什么意思？

Staples

• n. （某国的）主要产品( staple的名词复数 )，钉书钉，U 形钉，主要部份；
• v. 用钉书钉钉住( staple的第三人称单数 )；

例句

• I'm trying to make an analysis of the staples of his talk. 我在试行分析他的谈话的要旨.
• Staples such as bread, rice and tea are already being rationed. 面包、大米和茶叶等日常必需品已实行配给。
• It's one of the globe's most important food staples , said plant geneticist Pamela Ronald. 大米是全球最重要的主食之一,植物遗传学家潘梅拉·罗奈尔德如是说.
• The anvil onto which the staples are pressed was not assemble correctly. 订书机上的铁砧安装错位.
• Staples such as bread, rice and tea are already being rationed... 面包、大米和茶叶等日常必需品已实行配给。

英语四级真题

We're a traditional British restaurant so there are some staples (主菜) that will remain essentially unchanged.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
But there is also pressure to buy local and save on food miles, which means we take our vegetables from the local markets, and there are a lot that work well with British staples
出自-2011年6月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADJ
  (食物、产品或活动)主要的，基本的
  A staple food, product, or activity is one that is basic and important in people's everyday lives.
  例句
  Rice is the staple food of more than half the world's population... 稻米是全世界一半以上人口的主食。 The Chinese also eat a type of pasta as part of their staple diet... 中国人也把一种面食作为他们的主食之一。
• N-COUNT
  主要部分;重要内容
  A staple is something that forms an important part of something else.
  例句
  Political reporting has become a staple of American journalism. 政治新闻已成为美国新闻报道的主要内容。
• N-COUNT
  订书钉
  Staples are small pieces of bent wire that are used mainly for holding sheets of paper together firmly. You put the staples into the paper using a device called a stapler.
• VERB
  用订书机订
  If you staple something, you fasten it to something else or fix it in place using staples.
  例句
  Staple some sheets of paper together into a book. 用订书机将几页纸装订成册。 ...polythene bags stapled to an illustrated card. 订在一张插图卡片上的几个塑料袋