a dish of meat and/or vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a container that has a lid (= cover) 炖的菜，煨的菜（有肉和蔬菜） Oxford Collocations DictionaryStew is used after these nouns:- beef
- fish
- lamb
- …
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘cauldron’): from Old French estuve (related to estuver ‘heat in steam’), probably based on Greek tuphos ‘smoke, steam’. The noun sense (mid 18th cent.) is directly from the verb (dating from late Middle English).
Idioms
get (yourself)/be in a stew (about/over something)
- (informal)
to become/feel very anxious or upset about something （为某事）坐立不安，心烦意乱 There’s no point getting in a stew about it. 没有必要为此烦恼。
