beef

• n. 牛肉；筋肉；食用牛；泣き言
• vi.不平を言う；非難する；泣き言を言う
• vt. 引き上げる；強化する

語源的にはbovine、牛のものと同じ。

beef

beef: [13] Like mutton, pork, and veal, beef was introduced by the Normans to provide a dainty alternative to the bare animal names ox, cow, etc when referring to their meat. Anglo-Norman and Old French boef or buef (which of course became modern French boeuf) came from Latin bov-, the stem of bōs ‘ox’, from which English gets bovine [19] and Bovril [19]. Bōs itself is actually related etymologically to cow. The compound beefeater ‘yeoman warder of the Tower of London’ was coined in the 17th century; it was originally a contemptuous term for a ‘well-fed servant’.
=> bovine, cow

beef (n.)

c. 1300, from Old French buef "ox; beef; ox hide" (11c., Modern French boeuf), from Latin bovem (nominative bos, genitive bovis) "ox, cow," from PIE root *gwou- "cow, ox, bull" (see cow (n.)). Original plural was beeves.

beef (v.)

"to complain," slang, 1888, American English, from noun meaning "complaint" (1880s). The noun meaning "argument" is recorded from 1930s. The origin and signification are unclear; perhaps it traces to the common late 19c. complaint of U.S. soldiers about the quantity or quality of beef rations.

1. They used to buy ten kilos of beef in one lump.

彼らは昔、10キロの牛肉をよく買っていた。

2.A tantalising aroma of roast beef fills the air.

空気中に魅力的なローストビーフの香りが充満している。

3. Beef now costs well over 30 roubles a pound.

牛肉は現在、1ポンド当たり30ルーブル以上で販売されている。

4.They bought so much beef that some went bad.

彼らは牛肉を買いすぎて、一部は変質してしまった。

5.Some of the commercially produced venison resembles beef in flavour.

商業的に養殖されている鹿肉の味は牛肉に似ているものがあります。