If food is eatable, it is in a good enough state to go in your mouth — not rotten, not burnt to nothing, not so badly cooked that you cannot face it. It is eat + -able, “able to be eaten,” and it is a close old partner of edible (they are doublets: two words from the same idea).

If food is eatable如果一樣食物是eatable，it is in a good enough state to go in your mouth意思是它的狀態好到可以放進嘴裡吃——not rotten不是壞掉的，not burnt to nothing不是燒到什麼都不剩，not so badly cooked that you cannot face it也不是煮得糟到讓人難以下嚥。It is eat + -able這個字是eat加上-able，"able to be eaten,"意思是『能夠被吃』and it is a close old partner of edible它跟edible是一對很親近的老搭檔（they are doublets: two words from the same idea兩者是雙生詞，源自同一個概念）。

Though actually, most careful speakers now reach for edible when they mean “safe to eat, not poison,” and keep eatable for “you could get this down if you had to.” A mushroom may be edible (not poisonous) but not very eatable (it tastes awful).

Though actually不過其實，most careful speakers now reach for edible現在講究一點的人比較會用edible，when they mean "safe to eat, not poison,"當他們想表達『可以安全吃、沒有毒』and keep eatable for "you could get this down if you had to."而把eatable留給『必要的話還吞得下去』這個意思A mushroom may be edible (not poisonous)一朵菇可能是edible（沒有毒）的but not very eatable (it tastes awful)但不太eatable（因為它難吃）。

In everyday talk people mix the two, and eatable sounds a little older or more homely than edible. You may also meet eatables as a plural noun meaning food, but the usual sense here is the adjective.

In everyday talk在日常對話裡，people mix the two大家會把這兩個字混著用，and eatable sounds a little older or more homely than edibleeatable聽起來比edible老派一點、也比較家常。You may also meet eatables as a plural noun meaning food你也可能遇到eatables當複數名詞用，意思是食物，but the usual sense here is the adjective但這裡通常指的是形容詞用法。