beer
[bɪr]
n. 啤酒

[] 啤酒

1. I like drinking beer.
   喜欢喝啤酒。
2. His only recreations are drinking beer and working in the garden.
   仅消遣喝啤酒花园里种花草。
3. I've got sixty shares in the company, but that's small beer compared with his a hundred thousand.
   司60股，10万股，微足道。

beer
[ noun ]
a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops
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Beer \Beer\, n. [OE. beor, ber, AS. be['o]r; akin to Fries.
biar, Icel. bj?rr, OHG. bior, D. & G. bier, and possibly E.
brew. [root]93, See {Brew}.]
1. A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but
commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other
substance to impart a bitter flavor.

Note: Beer has different names, as {small beer}, {ale},
{porter}, {brown stout}, {lager beer}, according to its
strength, or other qualities. See {Ale}.

2. A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of
various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.

{Small beer}, weak beer; (fig.) insignificant matters. ``To
suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.'' --Shak.