wild oats

基本解释

• 放荡不羁；轻率；野生燕麦

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Whether she sows her newly wild oats with whirlwind travel, going back to school, or by playing the field depends on the individual, of course.
  不管她是否想去闪电旅游，回到学校，去田野里玩耍，当然，都会因人而异。
• When Randall reached America on his return from Germany, he immediately began to sow his wild oats, and gave his whole mind to it.
  从德国一返回美国，兰德尔立刻开始播种野燕麦，把自己的全部精力都放在野燕麦上。
• In June 2007 America’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) applied to the courts to stop the tie-up between Whole Foods and Wild Oats, two upmarket food retailers.
  2007年6月，美国联邦贸易委员会(FTC)申请停止两家高端食品零售商Whole Foods和 Wild Oats之间的合并。

权威例句

• Instead, they seem to have been used to store wild barley and wild oats.
  ECONOMIST: The earliest granaries
• These included fierce criticisms of a competitor, Wild Oats, which Whole Foods later bought.
  ECONOMIST: Business.view: Silence is golden The

词组短语

短语

• Wild Oats Pty Ltd 野麦公司
• Wild Oats Markets 超市
• Sowing wild oats 拈花惹草
• control of wild oats 防治野燕麦
• Sow your wild oats 过放荡的生活

英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• the indiscretions of youth, esp dissoluteness before settling down (esp in the phrase sow one's wild oats)

专业释义

医药科学

• 小颚花；野生燕麦

经济学

• 青稞

农业科学

• 野燕麦