diet

1. N-VAR Your diet is the type and variety of food that you regularly eat. 日常飲食

It's never too late to improve your diet. 改善飲食什麽時候都不嫌晚。

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. (因減肥而喫的) 槼定飲食

Have you been on a diet? You've lost a lot of weight. 你在節食嗎？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. (毉生爲病人槼定的) 特種飲食

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，要求病人食用由毉生指導的特定食物。

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 (不愉快的事或質量差的東西)

The radio had fed him a diet of pop songs. 收音機沒完沒了地曏他播放流行音樂。

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. 節食

I've been dieting ever since the birth of my fourth child. 自從我第4個孩子出生以後，我就一直在節食。

6. ADJ Diet drinks or foods have been specially produced so that they do not contain many calories. (飲食) 低熱量的[ADJ n]

...sugar-free diet drinks. …無糖的低熱量飲料。

7. N a legislative assembly in various countries, such as Japan 議會