a [container/unit] of rice
rice 表示“米；大米”时通常不可数，计量时用“a + 容器/单位 + of + rice”结构，如 a bag of rice。
She ate a bowl of rice.
她吃了一碗米饭。
稻；水稻；水稻品种；蒂姆·赖斯；禾本科植物稻的种子用作食物；未碾磨或常经碾磨的食用谷物
The grains of the rice plant that are cooked and eaten as food.
指食用的米粒，是rice最常用的意思。
禾本科植物稻的种子用作食物
Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
未碾磨或常经碾磨的食用谷物
grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
这种植物的特定品种
A specific variety of this plant.
一年生或多年生根茎沼泽禾草；种子用作食物；稻草用于造纸
annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
这种植物的种子用作食物
The seeds of this plant used as food.
常与安德鲁·劳埃德·韦伯合作的英国词作者(生于1944年)
English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)
I cooked some rice for dinner.
我晚饭煮了些米饭。
用法提示：rice 作不可数名词，表示“米饭”。
Would you like rice or noodles with your chicken?
你的鸡肉要配米饭还是面条？
用法提示：rice 作名词，指“米饭”，用于饮食选择。
The farmer grows rice in the flooded fields.
农民在水田里种水稻。
用法提示：rice 作名词，表示“水稻”，指农作物。
rice 表示“米；大米”时通常不可数，计量时用“a + 容器/单位 + of + rice”结构，如 a bag of rice。
She ate a bowl of rice.
她吃了一碗米饭。
rice 指“水稻品种”时可用作可数名词，复数形式为 rices，但日常使用较少。
Farmers grow many different rices in this region.
农民在这个地区种植许多不同品种的水稻。
rice 可直接放在另一名词前作定语，表示用途或关联，如 rice field（稻田）、rice wine（米酒）。
We bought a new rice cooker.
我们买了一个新的电饭煲。
grammar · medium
易错句子Can I have a rice, please?
正确表达Can I have some rice, please?
rice 表示“大米；米饭”这一物质时是不可数名词，前面不能加不定冠词 a/an；要表示数量应用 some rice，或用 a bowl of rice 这样的量词结构。中文“来碗饭”里的量词概念容易被直译成 a rice。
grammar · medium
易错句子He doesn't eat many rice.
正确表达He doesn't eat much rice.
修饰不可数名词 rice 要用 much（或 a lot of），不能用只能修饰可数名词复数的 many，否定句中同样如此。要数“饭”的数量，须借助量词，如 two bowls of rice。
grammar · medium
易错句子The farmers are working in the rice.
正确表达The farmers are working in the rice fields.
rice 只指稻米或稻这种作物，本身不表示“田”；中文的“稻田”是一个词，直译时容易只保留 rice，英语里须说 rice field（或 paddy field）。
炒饭
We had fried rice for lunch.
我们午饭吃了炒饭。
糙米
She prefers brown rice to white rice.
比起白米，她更喜欢糙米。
白米饭
The restaurant serves white rice with every dish.
这家餐厅每道菜都配白米饭。
蒸米饭
The steamed rice was soft and hot.
蒸米饭又软又热。
稻田
The rice paddies stretch across the whole valley.
稻田遍布整个山谷。
饭碗；一碗米饭
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He put down his rice bowl and stood up.
他放下饭碗，站了起来。