staple

1. ADJ A staple food, product, or activity is one that is basic and important in people's everyday lives. 基本的; 主要的 (食物、産品、活動)[ADJ n]

Rice is the staple food of more than half the world's population. 大米是世界上半數(shù)以上人口的主食。

The Chinese also eat a type of pasta as part of their staple diet. 中國人也以一種麪食作爲他們的部分主食。

2. N-COUNT Staple is also a noun. 主食; 主要産品; 主要活動

Fish is a staple in the diet of many Africans. 魚是許多非洲人飲食中的主食。

3. N-COUNT A staple is something that forms an important part of something else. 重要部分

Political reporting has become a staple of American journalism. 政治報道已經(jīng)成爲美國新聞業(yè)的一個重要內(nèi)容。

4. N-COUNT Staples are small pieces of bent wire that are used mainly for holding sheets of paper together firmly. You put the staples into the paper using a device called a stapler. 訂書釘

5. V-T If you staple something, you fasten it to something else or fix it in place using staples. 用訂書釘訂住

Staple some sheets of paper together into a book. 用訂書釘把一些紙張訂成一本。