關於Greens的意思和用法的提問

A: I think it means that I could not see these colors before, but for some reason now I can. Maybe it’s a picture and now it’s in better light, so colors can now be seen.

A: Eat your vegetables

A: Ah. "Greens" refers to a green vegetable, usually leafy, like spinach.

Something that you usually do to spinach in recipes is to blanch it, which means to briefly cook it in boiling water. Once you do that, though, it becomes full of water, so you often need to squeeze it out afterwards (i.e. hold it in your hand and squeeze).

Which is to say, you squeeze the greens.

A: They are synonyms and are basically the same. Both of them are shorter, more casual ways to refer to vegetables.

A: "few" is used when describing a very small amount of something, like in an instance when that thing isn't enough, or adequate, like, "there are few books available, which can mean that the books aren't adequate for everybody.

"a few" can be said to be "just enough," for example, "there are a few men who can make it across the desert," meaning, there are just enough men to cross the desert.

as is usually the case in english, there is a lot of nuance in this situation, but these are just the bare basics.

so, in the examples you gave, i'd say that "there are a few greens in the desert" is more appropriate, if the message you want to pass across is, "don't lose hope; the desert still has some vegetation in it :)"

A: Literally, "your greens" in this use means the vegetables on your plate.

Do we have a figurative use for this ... ?

Figuratively, this could be used to suggest that you remember to take the healthy option - do your stretches and exercises, detox if you need to, keep calm, do the things that make you healthy.

It could also stretch to mean something like: be good and compliant, be a good little citizen, don't rock the boat, don't make trouble. The urban dictionary favours or suggests this approach (substituting "vegetables" for "greens"), but I've rarely heard it used that way .. .


https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Eat+Your+Greens

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=eat%20your%20vegetables

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/detox

https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/suck-it-up

A:

Good 👍

A: He says “It’s halal meat”. I am assuming this man is Muslim then, since “halal” refers to meat prepared as prescribed by Muslim law.

A: Where did this plant come from?