名词

1. I bought a bag of salted peanuts.
我买了一包咸花生米。

2. In terms of cash outlay, the sum is peanuts.
从花费来看，这笔钱乃区区小数。

3. He pays his workers peanuts.
他付很少的钱给他的工人。

1. 花生油：常见的基底油有:甜杏仁油(sweet almond),杏子核油(apricot kernel),葡萄子(grapeseed),酪梨(avocado),花生油(peanut),橄榄油(Olive),山核桃油(Pecan),夏威夷果油(macadamia nut其实这个是澳洲的特产,为什么和夏威夷有关系~~),

1. 花生
Peanuts are small nuts that grow under the ground. Peanuts are often eaten as a snack, especially roasted and salted.

e.g. ...a packet of peanuts...
一包花生
e.g. Add 2 tablespoons of peanut oil.
加两汤匙花生油。

2. 少得可怜的钱；小钱
If you say that a sum of money is peanuts, you mean that it is very small.

e.g. The cost was peanuts compared to a new kitchen...
与建新厨房相比，那笔费用微不足道。
e.g. The jobs they offer pay peanuts.
他们提供的工作报酬很低。

noun

1. pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds
`groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms

Synonym: earthnutgoobergoober peagroundnutmonkey nut

2. a young child who is small for his age

3. widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions
showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground

Synonym: peanut vineArachis hypogaea

4. underground pod of the peanut vine