• n. 饲料；素材
• vt. 喂

来自food, 食物。该物用做动物的饲料，草料。

fodder

fodder: see food

fodder (n.)

Old English fodder "food," especially "hay, straw, or other bulk food for cattle," from Proto-Germanic *fodram (cognates: Old Norse foer, Middle Dutch voeder, Old High German fuotar, German Futter), from PIE *pa-trom, suffixed form of *pa- "to feed" (see food).

1. The alfalfa plant is widely used as animal fodder.

苜蓿科植物广泛用作动物饲料。

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2. Old movies were the cheapest broadcast fodder.

老电影是最廉价的播放素材。

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3. The conscripts were treated as cannon fodder.

应征入伍者被当做炮灰。

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4. Many cynical managers see employees as cannon fodder.

许多自私自利的经理视员工如草芥。

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5. This story will be more fodder for the gossip columnists.

这个传闻会是闲谈专栏作家的又一素材。

来自《权威词典》