词典释义：
an implement with two or more prongs used for lifting food to the mouth or holding it when cutting
叉，餐叉。
a tool of larger but similar form used for digging or lifting in a garden or farm
耙。
[as modifier]denoting a light meal or buffet that may be eaten solely with a fork, while standing
（只需站着用叉进食的）自助式叉餐。
a device, component, or part with two or more prongs, in particular
叉状设备（或部件），尤指：
(一般作
（自行车，摩托车）前叉，后叉。
a flash of forked lightning
叉状闪电的闪光。
the point where something, especially a road or (
岔路口；〈北美〉 河流分流处。
either of two such parts
岔路；〈北美〉 岔流，分流。
【棋】 一捉两；一捉多。
[no obj.](especially of a road or other route)divide into two parts
（尤指公路等）分岔
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the place where the road forks. 公路分岔处。
[no obj., with adverbial of direction]take or constitute one part or the other at the point where a road or other route divides
（公路等分岔处）走岔道；构成岔道
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we forked north-west for Rannoch. 我们岔向西北往兰诺赫走。
[with obj.]dig, lift, or manipulate (something) with a fork
用耙子挖（或举、操纵）；用叉叉起
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fork in some compost. 耙进一些堆肥。
[with obj.]
【棋】 用一个棋子同时进攻（两个棋子）。
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fork something out/up （或fork out/up ）informal pay money for something, especially reluctantly〈非正式〉 （尤指不情愿地）为…付钱 -
fork something over 1 turn over soil or other material with a gardening fork 用耙子翻（土等） -
2 informal, chiefly N. Amer. another way of sayingfork something out . 〈非正式，主北美〉 同fork something out .
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