diet

noun

1. the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)

Synonym: dieting

2. the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)

3. a prescribed selection of foods

4. a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)

verb

1. eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight

2. follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons

e.g. He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet

1. 日常饮食;日常食物
Your diet is the type and range of food that you regularly eat.

e.g. It's never too late to improve your diet.
什么时候改善饮食都为时不晚。
e.g. ...a healthy diet rich in fruit and vegetables...
富含水果和蔬菜的健康饮食

2. (医生指定的)特别饮食，规定饮食
If a doctor puts someone on a diet, he or she makes them eat a special type or range of foods in order to improve their health.

e.g. He was put on a diet of milky food.
他按照医嘱要食用乳制品。
e.g. ...a special diet for children with high cholesterol.
专为胆固醇高的孩子准备的特别饮食

3. （为减轻体重的）限制饮食，节食
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.

e.g. Have you been on a diet? You've lost a lot of weight...
你最近在节食吗？你瘦了好多。
e.g. Diet and exercise will alter your shape...
节食和锻炼会改变你的体形。

4. (为减轻体重而)限制饮食，节食
If you are dieting, you eat special kinds of food or you eat less food than usual because you are trying to lose weight.

e.g. I've been dieting ever since the birth of my fourth child...
我生完第四个孩子后就一直在节食。
e.g. Most of us have dieted at some time in our lives.
我们大多数人都曾在人生的某个时期为减肥而节食过。

5. (饮料或食物)有助于减肥的，低热量的，低卡路里的
Diet drinks or foods have been specially produced so that they do not contain many calories.

e.g. ...sugar-free diet drinks.
无糖低热量饮料
e.g. ...diet margarine.
低卡路里的人造黄油

6. (尤指令人不快或劣质的东西的)大量
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.

e.g. The radio had fed him a diet of pop songs...
他从广播里听到的都是千篇一律的流行歌曲。
e.g. People are rejecting this constant diet of despair.
人们开始拒绝这种没完没了的绝望情绪。

1. 国会：以日本在野党民主党(Democratic Party of Japan)为首的反对派阵营计划在麻生下周解散日本众议院(House of Representatives)前,不参与国会(Diet)任何议题的讨论.

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2. 控制饮食：凡是心梗患者无论血清胆固醇增高还是正常,都需长期服用降脂药. 至于戒烟的好处人人皆知,不仅可降低慢性支气管炎、肺气肿、肺源性心脏病和肺癌的患病率,还可减少烟对血管内皮的损害,从而达到减少冠心病发生的目的. D.控制饮食(Diet)