beef

本篇不是要講美國牛肉又被禁(U.S. beef imports banned again)的新聞，而是要提它另一個俚語上的意思。請看幾個例句，試著猜猜它的意思。

My personal beef is the traffic and the attendant air pollution.

My main beef about the job is that I have to work on Saturdays.

猜出來了嗎？

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beef 在這指的是牢騷、抱怨，可當名詞也可當動詞。