bean

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Related topics: Food, Plants

bean1 /biːn/ S2 noun [countableC] → been

1 VEGETABLEDFHBPa seed or a pod (=case containing seeds), that comes from a climbing plant and is cooked as food. There are very many types of beans 豆；豆荚

baked beans

烘豆

Soak the beans overnight.

把豆子浸泡一夜。

kidney beans

芸豆

green beans

青刀豆，四季豆

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2. PLANTHBPDFa plant that produces beans 豆科植物

3 COFFEEDFa seed used in making some types of food or drinks 〔用于做某类食物或饮料的〕籽实

coffee beans

咖啡豆

cocoa beans

可可豆

4 be full of beans informalENERGETIC to be very eager and full of energy 生气勃勃，精力充沛

She’s full of beans this morning.

她今天早上精神十足。

Examples from the Corpus

be full of beans• I wish I was one of those people who are full of beans first thing in the morning.• You'd never think she'd been ill -- she came bouncing in this morning, full of beans.• Then she had been lying in the nursery rocking chair as stuffed with straw as Andy and Teddy were full of beans.

5. not have a bean British EnglishBrE informalPOOR to have no money at all 身无分文

6. not know/care beans (about somebody/something) NOT KNOW American EnglishAmE informal to not know anything or care at all about someone or something （对某人/某物）一无所知/毫不关心

→ spill the beans at spill1(3), → not amount to a hill of beans at hill(5), → jelly bean

Examples from the Corpus

bean• He doesn't have a bean, other than what we lend him.• The chicken version is filled with corn, black beans, peppers, onions, melted cheese and of course, chicken.• Collect bean canes and pea sticks.• chicken with rice and green beans• Seven dried lima beans, painted bright red.• Then I'd look at the fields of beans, glossy in the moonlight, hanging fat and glossy.• Ana got up, took a spoonful of bean mush and poked it into the child's mouth.• There was nothing he would rather eat than beans.• Drain the beans and place them in a saucepan with the bay leaves.• Soak the beans overnight before cooking.

bean2 verb [transitiveT]

informalHIT to hit someone on the head with an object 〔用东西〕打〔某人〕的头部

Examples from the Corpus

bean• Hughes got beaned by a wild pitch.

Beann

n → Mr Bean

Origin bean1

Old English

bean1 nounbean2 verbBeann

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