喜樂美語

Picture the soft yellow block that the moment it meets warm toast. Two things follow from that: the food itself, and the action of spreading it. English also keeps one old saying built on how easily it melts.

可以想成：一塊軟軟的黃色固體，碰到熱吐司就化開。從這個畫面延伸出兩件事：那個食物本身，以及「把它抹上去」這個動作——英文很常直接拿食物的名字當動詞用。另外還留著一句老話，是拿「它很容易融化」這件事來說人的。

Two branches

奶油這個食物，以及抹它的動作

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the dairy spread · noun · A1

A milk food, soft and yellow, that goes on bread and into cooking.

奶油

俗語裡的奶油

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butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth · noun · A1

Used in the phrase 'butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth' to say that someone looks sweet and innocent but is not really.

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同家族的字

  • 形容詞buttery

過去式 buttered過去分詞 buttered-ing buttering三單 butters

原始詞典資料13 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Buttername

  • 1

    A surname.

butternoun詞源 1/ˈbʌtəɹ/

  • 1

    A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).

  • 2

    cookingfoodlifestyleAny of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).

    • peanut butter
    • soy butter
  • 3

    Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.

    • Butters such as cocoa, illippe, kokum, mango, murumuru, sal (shorea) and shea occur naturally and are obtained directly from the plant.
    • Butters are triglycerides […]. Cocoa butter (Theobroma cacao) is used as an emollient in topical cosmetic formulations, […] South American and the Brazilian rainforest offer various plants with common butters used in the industry that include […] cupuaçu butter […] and murumuru butter from the murumuru palm tree (Astrocaryum murumuru). India is another source of many butters used in cosmetic products, including kokum butter extracted from the seeds of the Garcinia indica tree, mango butter from the Mangifera indica tree and shea butter[…]
  • 4

    obsoletechemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesAny specific soft substance.

    • butter of antimony; butter of arsenic
  • 5

    slangSomething that is smooth, impressive, or appealing. (Compare smooth as butter.)

    • That “Confessions” into “Nice and Slow” transition [at the Super Bowl LVIII halftime show] was buttah !
  • 6

    slangaeronauticsaerospaceaviationSomething that is smooth, impressive, or appealing. (Compare smooth as butter.)

    • That landing was total butter!

butterverb詞源 1/ˈbʌtəɹ/

  • 1

    To spread butter on.

    • Butter the toast.
  • 2

    hobbieslifestyleskiingTo move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.

  • 3

    hobbieslifestyleskiingTo move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.

  • 4

    obsoleteslangTo increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.

butternoun詞源 2/ˈbʌtəɹ/

  • 1

    Someone or something that butts.

    • […] these animals lacked self-correcting mechanisms of the kind seen in modern head-butters such as goats and big-horn sheep that would have kept the tremendous forces aligned with the rest of the skeleton.
  • 2

    Someone or something that butts in; a busybody.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。