喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/prɒːn/ · /prɔːn/蝦子；明蝦

    a small sea animal with a shell and a lot of legs, which turns pink when it is cooked and is eaten as food.

    示範例句 · Example

    Mei's grandmother steamed a plate of prawns for the family dinner.

    逐字美的奶奶為了家庭晚餐蒸了一盤蝦子。

    prawn 就是我們吃的那種蝦子：有殼、很多腳，煮熟以後會變成粉紅色。這個字在英式英語裡最常見，美式英語多半說 shrimp；一般的感覺是 prawn 比較大隻、shrimp 比較小隻，但兩邊的界線其實很鬆，常常指同一種東西。它是可數名詞，一隻是 a prawn，很多隻要加 s（three prawns）。菜單上最常看到 prawn cocktail（蝦子拌醬汁配生菜的小前菜）和 prawn sandwich（鮮蝦三明治）。

    常見搭配

    • king prawn / tiger prawn

      大蝦／草蝦

      a large kind of prawn

      The fish stall had fresh king prawns on ice.

    • peeled prawns

      去殼蝦仁

      prawns with the shell taken off

      Mum bought a bag of peeled prawns for the fried rice.

    • prawn cocktail

      鮮蝦沙拉（前菜）

      a small dish of prawns in a sauce with some salad

      Everyone at the table started with a prawn cocktail.

    • prawn sandwich

      鮮蝦三明治

      a sandwich filled with prawns

      She picked up a prawn sandwich on the way to work.

    • fry / grill prawns

      煎（炒）蝦／烤蝦

      to cook prawns in a pan or over heat

      Grill the prawns for two minutes on each side.

core核心畫面

Picture a small sea creature curled inside a thin shell, with many little legs and long — grey and see-through in the water, turning pink the moment it is cooked, and eaten with the shell pulled off.

一隻小小的海裡生物，身上包著一層薄殼，底下密密排著細腳，前面還有長長的觸鬚。活的時候是灰灰半透明的，一下鍋就轉成粉紅色——那個顏色變化幾乎是這個字給人的第一印象。吃的時候把殼剝掉。值得記一下的是英式英語裡 prawn 是最常用的說法，美式英語同樣的東西多半講 shrimp；兩個字指的常常是同一盤菜，差別在說話的人來自哪裡，而不在生物本身。

複數 prawns

原始詞典資料6 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。

prawnnoun詞源 1/pɹɔːn/

  • 1

    A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.

    • The aphrodisiac nature of prawns is evident in an epigram by the Greek poet Asclepiades.
  • 2

    A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.

  • 3

    derogatorySynonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.

    • She's a prawn!
  • 4

    slangA fool, an idiot.

    • This is utter dribble. I've not read much worse than this in a long time - and he admits he doesn't know - "or so I am told". Get real, you prawn.
    • He didn't say he was accused of that, prawn.

prawnverb詞源 1/pɹɔːn/

  • 1

    To fish for prawns.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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