diet /ˈdaɪət/ CET4 TEM4 ( dieting, dieted, diets )

• 1. 

  N-VAR Your diet is the type and variety of food that you regularly eat. 日常饮食

  例：

  It's never too late to improve your diet.

  改善饮食什么时候都不嫌晚。

• 2. 

  N-VAR If you are on a diet, you eat special kinds of food or you eat less food than usual because you are trying to lose weight. (因减肥而吃的) 规定饮食

  例：

  Have you been on a diet? You've lost a lot of weight.

  你在节食吗？你瘦了很多。

• 3. 

  N-COUNT If a doctor puts someone on a diet, he or she makes them eat a special type or variety of foods in order to improve their health. (医生为病人规定的) 特种饮食

  例：

  Certain chronic conditions, such as diabetes, require special diets that should be monitored by your physician.

  一些慢性病，如糖尿病，要求病人食用由医生指导的特定食物。

• 4. 

  N-COUNT If you are fed on a diet of something, especially something unpleasant or of poor quality, you receive or experience a very large amount of it. 大量 (不愉快的事或质量差的东西)

  例：

  The radio had fed him a diet of pop songs.

  收音机没完没了地向他播放流行音乐。

• 5. 

  V-I If you are dieting, you eat special kinds of food or you eat less food than usual because you are trying to lose weight. 节食

  例：

  I've been dieting ever since the birth of my fourth child.

  自从我第4个孩子出生以后，我就一直在节食。

• 6. 

  ADJ Diet drinks or foods have been specially produced so that they do not contain many calories. (饮食) 低热量的 [ADJ n]

  例：

  ...sugar-free diet drinks.

  …无糖的低热量饮料。

• 7. 

  N a legislative assembly in various countries, such as Japan 议会