meat
noun
miːt noun
1 the flesh of animals and birds eaten as food 〔供食用的〕肉 C,U
I gave up eating meat a few months ago.
我几个月以前开始不吃肉了。
raw meat
生肉
a meat pie
肉馅饼
a selection of cold meats
各种冷盘肉
red meat
white meat
2 something interesting or important in a talk, book, film etc 〔谈话、书籍、电影等中〕有趣 （重要 ）的内容 U
There’s no meat to their arguments.
他们的论据里没有什么有趣的内容。
We then got down to the real meat of the debate (=the main and most interesting part of it) .
我们接下来进入了辩论的最精彩部分。
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sb doesn’t have much meat on him/her need some (more) meat on your bones
used to say that someone looks very thin 某人身上没多少肉 BrE ; AmE informal
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one man’s meat is another man’s poison
used to say that something that one person likes may not be liked by someone else 甲之熊掌，乙之砒霜; 一个人喜欢的另一个人未必喜欢
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be easy meat
if someone is easy meat, they are easy to defeat, deceive, or hurt [英，非正式] 易被击败的人; 易上当受骗的人; 易受伤害的人 BrE informal
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San Marino should be easy meat for England in next week’s match.
下一周比赛圣马力诺队将会被英格兰队轻松击败。
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the meat and potatoes
the most important or basic parts of a discussion, decision, piece of work etc [美，非正式] 〔讨论、决定、工作等中〕最重要 （最基本 ）的部分 AmE informal
Let’s get down to the meat and potatoes. How much are you going to pay me for this?
我们来谈最关键的问题: 你打算为此付我多少钱？
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be meat and drink to sb
to be something that someone enjoys doing or finds very easy to do because they have done it many times before [英] 是某人最拿手的事 BrE
The first five questions in the quiz were about football, which was meat and drink to Brian.
知识竞赛的前五个问题是关于足球的，这是布赖恩最拿手的了。