You can picture tea as one plant turned into one warm cup: leaves from a bush are picked and dried, then hot water is poured over them to make a brown drink. Everything else the word covers — the leaves, the bush, the little meal, the comfort — hangs off that single picture of leaf-meets-hot-water.
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原始詞典資料28 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。
Teaname
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A city in South Dakota.
teanoun詞源 1/tiː/
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The tea plant (Camellia sinensis); (countable) a variety of this plant.
- Darjeeling tea is grown in India.
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The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; (countable) a variety of such leaves.
- Go to the supermarket and buy some Darjeeling tea.
- Not for all the tea in China.
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The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water.
- Would you like some tea?
- She is drinking her tea right now.
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Specifically sweet tea, an iced tea supersaturated with sugar.
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Any drink which is similar to Camellia sinensis tea in some way
- Mushroom Tea / 8 cups water / 1 cup dried reishi mushroom pieces [...] 1. Start by making Reishi Mushroom Tea: Bring water to a boil in a medium saucepan. 2. Add the reishi mushroom pieces[…]
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Any drink which is similar to Camellia sinensis tea in some way:
- camomile tea; mint tea
- Curcuma tea relieves colds[…]
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Any drink which is similar to Camellia sinensis tea in some way:
- beef tea
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A cup of any of these drinks, often with milk, sugar, lemon, or tapioca pearls.
- We'd like one tea and one coffee, please.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
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A glass of these drinks.
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A light midafternoon meal, typically but not necessarily including tea.
- I won't make it to the breakfast event, but I'll see you at the tea.
- But the gorge of the Rush was not at all a nice place for travelling either. I mean, it was not a nice place for people in a hurry. For an afternoon's ramble ending in a picnic tea it would have been delightful.
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Synonym of supper, the main evening meal, whether or not it includes the drink tea.
- The family were sitting round the table, eating their tea.
- Breakfast was composed of a meal which reminded me of a linseed poultice; for dinner there were potatoes boiled in their jackets with beef saltier than the ocean itself. [...] Tea was something like breakfast.
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ball-gamescricketgamesThe break in play between the second and third sessions.
- Australia were 490 for 7 at tea on the second day.
- As recently as the mid-80s the players would be given a bottle of beer at lunchtime at some county grounds, and "tea" still meant a cup of tea into the 90s.
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datedslangSynonym of marijuana.
- So they were evidence. Evidence of what? That a man occasionally smoked a stick of tea, a man who looked as if any touch of the exotic would appeal to him. On the other hand lots of tough guys smoked marijuana […].
- Tea puts a musician in a real masterly sphere, and that's why so many jazzmen have used it.
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slangInformation, especially gossip.
- Spill the tea on that drama, hon.
- Now I've told you that I've taken LSD, and you think I'm gonna leap through a window or something like that. And you know why that is, that's because of Art Linkletter's daughter.... But let me give you the tea on her, see, she took LSD, realized she was Art Linkletter's daughter, and threw herself out of the window!
teaverb詞源 1/tiː/
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To drink tea.
- We tea’d with May, and had to wait over an hour for a taxi!
- I dined yesterday at | three on mutton chops and 1/2 pint of E[ast] I [ndian] sherry, and then tead and muffined' at 8.
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To take afternoon tea (a light meal).
- The wind was high and the hills ditto, and both being against us we were late in reaching Hitchin (30 from Cambridge), so giving up the idea of reaching Oxford we toiled on through Luton, on to Dunstable (47), where we teaed moderately […]
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To give tea to.
- And they’ve got Professor Hummums with ’em, the great Everlasting Star of the Nineteenth Century, which he has breakfasted and dined and tea’d and supped here ever since yesterday.
- In half an hour they had all been tea’d and coffeed and refreshed by the nurses, and shortly after were all undressed and put to bed clean and comfortable, and in a droll state of grateful wonder;
teaadj詞源 1/tiː/
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slangGood-looking, sexy.
teanoun詞源 2
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A moment, a historical unit of time from China, about the amount of time needed to quickly drink a traditional cup of tea.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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- triethylamine
- triethanolamine
- taxed enough already
- The Elm Architecture
- Tiny Encryption Algorithm
- Texas Education Agency
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