Word · Frequency #4295
beef
抱怨；发牢骚
核心释义
complain
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抱怨
complain
抱怨；养(牛)；宰(牛)；告发
用法In use
He always beefs about the food in the cafeteria.
用法提示：动词beef表示抱怨，后面接about引出抱怨对象
My coworkers are beefing about the new schedule.
用法提示：动词beef的现在分词形式beefing，表示正在抱怨
She beefed to the manager about the poor service.
用法提示：动词beef的过去式beefed，后面接to引出抱怨对象
beef about sth
口语说法，表示对某事不满、发牢骚，多见于美式英语；about 后接抱怨的事由。
Customers are always beefing about the slow service.
顾客总是抱怨服务太慢。
beef that + 从句
用 that 从句具体说出抱怨的内容，语气随意，多用于非正式场合。
She beefed that the hotel room was too noisy.
她抱怨旅馆房间太吵。
beef to sb about sth
to 后面是抱怨的对象，about 后面是抱怨的事由，两者常一起出现。
He beefed to his boss about the long hours.
他向老板抱怨工作时间太长。
Verb forms
base beef · third person beefs · -ing beefing · past beefed · past participle beefed
抱怨（非正式）
常见错误Common mistakes
易错句子He always beef when things go wrong.正确表达He always beefs when things go wrong.
表示“抱怨”时，一般现在时中主语 he 是第三人称单数，动词要加 -s；beef 的第三人称单数形式是 beefs，所以不能用原形 beef。
易错句子She is beef again.正确表达She is beefing again.
表示“抱怨”时，be 动词后构成进行时要用现在分词，不能用动词原形；beef 的现在分词是 beefing。
易错句子Yesterday they beef all night.正确表达Yesterday they beefed all night.
yesterday 表示过去时间，谓语要用一般过去时；beef 是规则动词，过去式是 beefed，不能用原形 beef。
相关词与表达Connections
搭配Collocations
- beef about
- 抱怨…；对…发牢骚
- She's always beefing about the weather.她总是在抱怨天气。
- beef to
- 向…抱怨
- He beefed to the manager about the service.他向经理抱怨服务质量。
- beef that
- 抱怨说…
- Workers beefed that the pay was too low.工人们抱怨说工资太低。
习语与比喻表达Idioms & figurative uses
- beef up
- 加强；充实；使更有力The government decided to beef up border security.政府决定加强边境安全。
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧Memory Tip
对着盘里的牛肉（beef）挑三拣四，就是 beef——抱怨。
语境与语域Context & Register
语域：informal 常见场景：日常对话、非正式场合 该动词义“抱怨”属于非正式用语，通常用于日常谈话或较随便的场合，正式写作中较少使用；常搭配 about 引出抱怨对象。
语法说明Grammar Note
常用搭配 beef about sth，意为抱怨某事。
发音与拼写Pronunciation & Spelling
All listed words end in the same stressed /iːf/ sound and rhyme with beef. Do not confuse the spelling with lookalikes such as beer /bɪr/, beet /biːt/, or beep /biːp/, whose final sounds differ.
高价值词汇High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
用法优先级
Dictionary facts from DICTIONARY_API_DEV, ECDICT, WIKTIONARY, WORDNET.