pulp

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pulp1 /pʌlp/ noun

1 SUBSTANCEsoft substance 软的物质 [singular, uncountableU] a very soft substance that is almost liquid, made by crushing plants, wood, vegetables etc 浆状物

Mash the bananas to a pulp.

把香蕉捣成糊状。

timber grown for wood pulp (=used for making paper)

种植以制造纸浆的树木

a soft pulp of leaves and mud

树叶和泥巴混成的浆液

2 HBPfruit/vegetable 水果/蔬菜 [uncountableU] the soft inside part of a fruit or vegetable 果肉；菜心

Halve the melon and scoop out the pulp.

把瓜切成两半，挖出瓜瓤。

3 books/films etc 书籍/电影等 [uncountableU] American EnglishAmE books, magazines, films etc that are badly written and that contain lots of sex, violence etc 劣质书刊，低级书刊；庸俗电影

an ad in a pulp magazine

低俗杂志中的一则广告

pulp fiction

低俗小说

4. beat somebody to a pulp informalHIT to seriously injure someone by hitting them many times 狠揍[痛打]某人，把某人打得血肉模糊

Examples from the Corpus

beat somebody to a pulp• Attempting to beat some one to a pulp would be described in these terms.• But when Alvin came back I thought he was going to beat me to a pulp.

5. HBHtooth 牙齿 [uncountableU] part of the inside of a tooth 牙髓

—pulpy adjectiveadj

Cook slowly until soft and pulpy.

慢慢地煮成软糊状。

Examples from the Corpus

pulp• Stir vigorously to break the cranberries into a pulp.• Forty acres of corn burns up in July or is flooded out or beaten to a pulp by hail.• But now they face a battle to save another from being stripped of trees for a paper and pulp mill.• But that evening, pulp mill workers crept beneath the building and bored through the floor and into the barrels stored there.• This is why the paper-maker is able to make a fibrous pulp for your morning paper from wood.• He won't drink the orange juice if there's a lot of pulp in it.• These artists manipulate paper pulp to make sculptures, reliefs, embossed and two-dimensional work.• paper pulp• Remove pits from persimmons, then scrape pulp free from skins with teaspoon.• The pulp is sold back to the farmers for feeding to their cattle.• The pulp wood and timber industry is an example of how a global economy can cut both ways here.

wood pulp• A big offender is chlorine gas used for bleaching wood pulp.• It was an industry like wood pulp or shoes.

pulp fiction• Perhaps pulp fiction is your métier rather than poetry?• He started reading pulp fiction in the year he lost his job and began producing mystery stories based on its formulas.

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