Or at stable shoeing a horse(*?*).- Or basting a turkey. 或像是在马厩里给马上铁掌(?*。-或像是给烤火鸡抹油。
Capricorn: Tries to come up with the most efficient way to engineer the turkey, from basting to carving. 摩羯:一定在琢磨着处理火鸡从涂油到烹饪的最有效的办法。
She was in the kitchen basting a turkey when Bess rang the bell. Her heart raced, and she wondered if the heat from the oven was responsible. 她在厨房给正在烤炙中的火鸡上奶油时,碧丝按了门铃。她的心狂跳起来,她怀疑是烤箱的热度影响了心跳。
basting
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a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together
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moistening a roast as it is cooking
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Baste \Baste\ (b[=a]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Basted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Basting}.] [Cf. Icel. beysta to strike, powder; Sw. basa to beat with a rod: perh. akin to E. beat.] 1. To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters. --Pepys.
2. (Cookery) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
3. To mark with tar, as sheep. [Prov. Eng.]
basting \basting\ n. 1. Loose temporary stitches.
Syn: baste, tacking. [WordNet 1.5]
2. (Cookery) The act or process of moistening a roast as it is cooking. [WordNet 1.5]