Start with the press: apples go in, juice comes out, and someone has to decide what happens next. Leave the juice alone and it ferments into a drink with alcohol in it. Stop before that and you have a cloudy sweet juice. The word sits on that fork in the road, and which side you land on depends on where you are standing when you order it.
可以先想一個榨汁的畫面：蘋果進去，汁流出來。接下來就有一個岔路。放著不管，果汁會發酵，變成有酒精的飲料。在那之前就停手，得到的是混濁又甜的果汁。這個字剛好站在這個岔路口上。你拿到哪一邊，看你在哪裡點這杯。英國那一邊走的是發酵，美國那一邊走的是不發酵。第三支比較特別：名字傳到了日本和韓國，東西卻沒跟著，那裡的 cider 指的是清澈的檸檬汽水。
From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces the word through Middle English sider and Old French sidre to Medieval Latin sicera, from Greek sikera and Hebrew shekhar, meaning a strong drink.
字源資料把這個字一路追到中古英文 sider、古法文 sidre、中世紀拉丁文 sīcera，再到希臘文 σίκερα 和希伯來文 שֵׁכָר，原意是「烈性的飲料」。所以含酒精的那一支，其實是這個字最老的那條路。
Wiktionary entry for cider, supplied in packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:574773002)
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。