peanut

1 It had peanut butter sandwiches, baby oranges, packets of cheese crackers, and honey-roasted peanuts.

2 I said, “I know, ma’am, he told me I’ve got a head shaped like a peanut.”

3 But since she now had a few coins, she still hung around the Store eating Planter’s peanuts and drinking Dr Pepper.

4 Two boys would set their peanuts twirling like little tops in the arena.

5 The story goes that one day back in the 1970s, George Finkle accidentally dropped a bowl of peanuts, chocolates, and marshmallows into a frying pan while he was making pancakes.

6 I knew I should squeeze out a “hi” or maybe “hello,” or maybe even “hello, JT,” but of course he knew what his name was and my mouth was full of peanut butter.

7 I was eating a peanut butter and honey sandwich and drinking a Dr Pepper.

8 Determined to discourage uninvited rodents, Curly carefully baited the rattraps with peanut butter and placed them at strategic locations along the outside walls of the trailer.

9 Pax hurried to where he’d buried the peanut butter jar and unearthed it.

10 I wrote about the peanut and said it was small, round, and dirty.

11 Nana packed me a ham sandwich on white bread, a bag of plain potato chips, a peanut butter granola bar, and a fruit punch juice box.

12 My grandmother gets up suddenly and puts the lid back on the jar of peanut butter before returning it to the cupboard.

13 At a town called Pakok we found some yams and peanuts.

14 A Nick Eisner is a cookie with a random glop of peanut butter on top, because when we were five, Nick thought that’s what people meant by peanut butter cookies.

15 They ate peanut butter crackers, getting gunk all over their teeth while quizzing each other on the periodic table.

16 Then we passed around our little hoard of sugar cubes and crackers and peanuts.

17 We sat down on the rocks in the shade along the dry creek and ate a lunch she’d prepared for us: peanut butter sandwiches and sliced apples.

18 Back in the living room, she serves the men a tray of fried plantain chips and peanuts and casabe and pours each one a Presidente in the cheap glasses she keeps for servants.

19 My dad, feeling sorry for me at the time, gives me the at-home nickname of “Skippy,” in honor of my peanut butter of choice.

20 The night before, Joyce, Harry, Rose, Mike, Polly, and Harry Junior had stayed up late, transferring the peanuts to paper sacks, planning to sell them to the race fans.

1 很少的钱

red cent

2 无聊人物

punk tinhorn

3 无价值的东西

fewtrils ambsace chotchke fouter stuff button chip toy rush dust rip mud straw nonsense toad trinket hoot trifle chaff flotsam frippery picayune nihil sheepshank fico nihility leather and prunella

4 渺小的

petty paltry

5 微不足道的

pygmaean nominal potty negligible paltry measly footy dinky pelting footling tiddly tin-pot tiddley picayunish inappreciable small-beer ten-twenty-thirty minuscular piss-ass minute nothing foolish insignificant vile fractional unimportant pitiful sleeveless immaterial minuscule pygmy trifling pissy inconsiderable picayune pimping halfpenny jerkwater penny-ante scrabbly dead-ass pistareen unvital silly enough to swear by

6 豆科

bean pea clover indigo broom chickpea hickory lentil rosewood flamboyant alfalfa mesquite acacia soya mimosa wattle tamarind fenugreek cassia rooibos wisteria guar liquorice astragalus kudzu carob gorse vetch trefoil groundnut redbud mung cowpea cocobolo bubinga blackwood laburnum adzuki mulga logwood sola lupin pernambuco koa immortelle nonsuch derris robinia sweetbriar tolu amboyna catechu myall medick genista cytisus sainfoin brigalow locoweed camwood alsike padauk vetchling opopanax merbau poinciana mopane melilot mucuna paloverde peavine yarran albizzia bird's-foot caragana babul restharrow clianthus msasa kiaat afrormosia sabicu ambatch keurboom minnerichi pyinkado hare's-foot kowhai lablab shisham divi-divi sweet pea Purple Heart lima bean asparagus pea milk vetch Spanish broom bladder senna tonka bean rain tree Port Jackson willow Judas tree scorpion senna broad bean field bean telegraph plant kidney vetch grass pea lucky bean honey locust white clover bird's foot trefoil tree lupin false acacia Calabar bean pagoda tree Moreton Bay chestnut pea tree dyer's greenweed pigeon pea Jerusalem thorn camel thorn tick trefoil petty whin tepary bean subterranean clover winged bean sensitive plant coral tree jack bean French bean golden wattle

7 微不足道

minuscular piss-ass minute nothing nominal foolish insignificant vile fractional unimportant pitiful sleeveless paltry immaterial minuscule measly pygmy trifling dinky pissy inconsiderable pelting picayune pimping halfpenny jerkwater penny-ante scrabbly inappreciable dead-ass pistareen unvital silly nothingness insignificance enough to swear by

8 落花生

earthnut monkey nut monkey-nut goober groundnut pignut ground pea manila nut manilla nut

9 小人物

nobody jack worm zilch picayune sprat small potatoes jack-a-Lent snippersnapper snippet minnow snotty whippersnapper squit whipster dandiprat pip-squeak

10 无价值

no-good no-account puckeroo stramineous light bad sorry refuse nowhere bare crap idle invalid straw null punk worthless dusty crappy bum queer careless shitty vile unworthy jazzy frothy trashy slushy leaden valueless riffraff frippery good-for-nothing schlub nugatory fustian picayune rinky-dink twopenny thriftless footling rubbishy unvalued chaffy drossy footle bastardly indign pistareen cotton-picking vanity nothingness naught nothing up to putty no chop not worth a cracker blow on

11 花生

earthpea monkey-nut goober groundnut pignut monkey nut earthnut earth-nut

12 无价值的

no-good no-account puckeroo stramineous light bad sorry refuse nowhere bare crap idle invalid straw null punk worthless dusty crappy bum queer careless shitty vile unworthy jazzy frothy trashy slushy leaden valueless riffraff frippery good-for-nothing schlub nugatory fustian picayune rinky-dink twopenny thriftless footling rubbishy unvalued chaffy drossy footle bastardly indign pistareen cotton-picking naught not worth a cracker