Fodder is food that is given to cows, horses, and other animals.
例句
...fodder for horses...馬飼料The alfalfa plant is widely used as animal fodder.苜蓿科植物廣泛用作動物飼料。
N-UNCOUNT
素材;材料
If you say that something is fodder for a particular purpose, you mean that it is useful for that purpose and perhaps nothing else.
例句
The press conference simply provided more fodder for another attack on his character...記者招待會只不過是提供了更多的再次擊他人格的口實。Old movies were the cheapest broadcast fodder.老電影是最廉價的播放素材。
英漢詞典釋義
n.
草料, 飼料
This kind of grass is a common fodder for horses.這種草是普通馬的飼料。
炮灰
Their lives were not considered important—they were just the cannon fodder.沒人關心他們的死活，他們只是炮灰而已。The team had no intention of being cannon fodder when they played the champions, and were determined to win.這支隊伍參賽時無意充當炮灰，他們志在必得。
<美>管自己的事;自己謀生
He was so young that he couldn’t cut his own fodder.他那時還很年輕,連自己的事都處理不好。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. coarse food (especially for cattle and horses) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop