morsel

noun
🔊/ˈmɔːsl/
🔊/ˈmɔːrsl/
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  1. a small amount or a piece of something, especially food少量,一块(食物)
    • a tasty morsel of food一点儿可口的食物
    • He ate it all, down to the last morsel.他全吃光了,一点儿不剩。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • a few tiny morsels of bread几小片面包
    • a juicy morsel of gossip少许有趣的闲言碎语
    • She couldn't eat even a morsel of the beef that he had ordered.她连他点的牛肉都吃不了。
    • They put out some tasty morsels for the hedgehogs.他们为那些刺猬预备了一些可口的食物。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • choice
    • delicious
    • juicy
    verb + morsel
    • eat
    preposition
    • morsel of
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    Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, diminutive of mors ‘a bite’, from Latin mors- ‘bitten’, from the verb mordere.