pestle
                                        英 ['pes(ə)l]
美 ['pɛstl]
                                        
- vt. 用杵捣;用槌磨
- vi. 用杵捣碎;用槌磨碎
- n. 杵;碾槌
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            pestle 杵,碾槌来自拉丁语pistillum,杵,碾槌,来自pinsere,击打,粉碎,来自PIE*peis,击打,捣,词源同piste,piston.
 
                                    
            - pestle
- pestle: see piston
 
- pestle (n.)
- mid-14c. (as a surname late 13c.), from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum "pounder, pestle," related to pinsere "to pound," from PIE *pis-to-, suffixed form of root *peis- "to crush" (cognates: Sanskrit pinasti "pounds, crushes," pistah "anything ground, meal," Greek ptissein "to winnow," Old Church Slavonic pišo, pichati "to push, thrust, strike," pišenica "wheat," Russian pseno "millet").
                 - 1. Using a pestle and mortar, pulverise the bran to a coarse powder. 
- 用杵和臼,将麸皮磨成粗粉。
来自柯林斯例句
 
- 2. He ground the rock candy with a mortar and pestle. 
- 他自己动手用研钵和杵把冰糖研成粉。
来自辞典例句
 
- 3. The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle? 
- 带有毒药的小球放在带有杵的容器里?
来自电影对白
 
- 4. Jin Yu: An iron pestle can be ground down to a needle. 
- 锦玉: 只要功夫深,铁杵磨成针ㄓㄣ.
来自互联网
 
- 5. This glass is ground under water using pestle and mortar. 
- 玻璃在水下被杵和臼碾压.
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