3 这句话中cosmetic standards如何理解

我看一篇讲减少食物浪费小文章中有一句话:

About 62.5 million tons of food is wasted annually in US, about 16% of that is at farm. So that's food that doesn't pass the cosmetic standards, and then the other 84% is food waste that's going to landfill.

请教这句话中cosmetic standards应该不是理解为化妆品标准吧?为什么会在这里使用呢?

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最佳答案 2021-07-04 12:21

cosmetic的本意是化妆品,这里引申为“外表,外观”的意思了。cosmetic standards,意思是“外观的标准”。也可以写成“cosmetic appearance standards”。原句中的的意思是部分食物不符合外观的标准,就直接在农场淘汰扔掉了呗。工业上有好多词的用法很灵活很有意思,比如:male screw,外螺纹(母);female screw,内螺纹(母);aluminum profile,铝型材;powder coated,粉末涂层,喷涂......

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