fork• Liftginger with a fork on to the sugar and turn, coating well.• If briningfattybirds such as goose and duck, punctureskin lightly with a fork.• Maybe he'd never used a knife and fork.• Remember that garden fork he borrowed?• My friend puts down her fork and looks me in the eye.• knives, forks, and spoons• the middlefork of the Klamath River• Turn left at the fork in the road.• She walked a few feet and stabbed at the earth with the fork.
knives and forks• There's no point in getting all the other decorativedetailsperfect if your plates and knives and forks are all wrong.• He would be setting her tray, looking for knives and forks, salt and pepper, plates to heat.• Molly went on laying the table, placing knives and forks neatly as though her sanitydepended on it.• I ate off tinysilver plates, with silver knives and forks.• Jessica had slammed a drawer open, was sortingknives and forks out, brittle, self-absorbed.• Did you count the knives and forks and spoons?• What would become of the knives and forks, who would want to buy them?• Many seemed not to know what the knives and forks were for and took the napkins for handkerchiefs.
1 (also fork off) [intransitiveI]TT if a road, river etc forks, it divides into two parts 〔道路、河流等〕分岔,岔开 → divide, split
The path forked off in two directions.
小路分岔后通往两个方向。
2fork (off) left/rightTTto go left or right when a roaddivides into two parts 在岔口往左拐/往右拐SYN turn
Fork left at the bottom of the hill.
在山脚的岔口往左拐。
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fork (off) left/right• At the first fork they must go left and at the next fork right and so on until they were challenged.• Then with a wave she forked left and was gone.• After 50yds fork right on to a track which climbs up Triscombe Combe.
3[transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]DFDLG to put food into your mouth or onto a plate using a fork 叉起〔食物〕
fork something into/onto etc something
He forked some bacon into his mouth.
他叉了几片熏猪肉送进嘴里。
4[transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]DFDLG to put manure into soil or to move soil around using a large garden fork 〔用大的园艺叉、耙〕翻耙
fork something in/over etc
In November, the soil should be forked over.
11月应当翻整土壤。
5fork out (something)phrasal verbphr v informalPAY FORto spend a lot of money on something, not because you want to but because you have to 〔不情愿地〕大把花钱
for/on
I had to fork out £600 on my car when I had it serviced.
我把车送去检修,不得不花了600英镑。
We don’t want to have to fork out for an expensive meal.
我们可不想掏钱去吃一顿很贵的饭。
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fork out • He remained calm, made a call and forked out $ 700 of his own money for a planeticket.• These sums, unsurprisingly, are forked out by the taxpayer.• I got away from Slim on my own, and nobody had to fork out no fifty thousand.• Meanwhile farmers have no option but to fork out the ever-increasing premiums that insurers are demanding.• Not only does it influence whether or not you fork out the requisite 65p, it can make or break a band.
6fork something ↔ overphrasal verbphr v especially American EnglishAmE informalto give money to someone or something, or spend money on something 给予〔钱〕;花费〔钱〕
The arena won’t be finished until private donors fork over more money.
fork• The tail is deeply forked and ends in fine points.• The filaments themselves are forked at various places and often meander wildly.• Then with a wave she forked left and was gone.• I crossed a railroadoverpass and reached a bunch of shacks where two highwaysforked off, both for Denver.• These sums, unsurprisingly, are forked out by the taxpayer.• Taxpayers have forked over $ 1. 1 billion in interest payments.• Certainly nothing I could easily fork oyer, and clearly, no one else will offer to do it.• Anna forked some more potatoes onto her plate.