Carrot

(noun.) promise of reward as in 'carrot and stick'; 'used the carrot of subsidized housing for the workers to get their vote';.

(noun.) orange root; important source of carotene.

(noun.) perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions.

(noun.) deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant.

录入:莱尔

• Oh, I don't deny he had a spice of the Roylands temper, but as to ambition and enterprise, he might as well have been born a carrot. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The moment he was landed, his late driver with a wave of the carrot, said 'Supper, Eddard! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Some think it must be Carrots, some say the Brick. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It has been probably in this manner that the introduction of clover, turnips, carrots, cabbages, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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