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  1. 1nA1/təˈmeɪtoʊ/ · /təˈmɑːtəʊ/番茄

    A round, soft, usually red fruit full of juice and seeds, eaten as a vegetable.

    示範例句 · Example

    Mei sliced a ripe tomato for the salad.

    逐字美切了一顆熟透的番茄為了那份沙拉。

    「tomato」是英文裡最常用的「番茄」：圓圓軟軟、多半是紅色的果實，可以生吃（沙拉），也可以煮熟做成湯或醬。台灣日常說「番茄」，英文 tomato 就是指這個。它在植物學上是水果，但餐桌上大家把它當蔬菜用。常見搭配：fresh tomatoes（新鮮番茄）、tomato sauce（番茄醬）、tomato soup（番茄湯）。複數是 tomatoes（多一個 e）。

    常見搭配

    • tomato sauce

      番茄醬（常配義大利麵）

      a sauce made from tomatoes, often used with pasta

      We put tomato sauce on the pasta.

    • tomato soup

      番茄湯

      a soup made from tomatoes

      I often have tomato soup for lunch.

    • fresh tomatoes

      新鮮番茄

      tomatoes that are not canned or dried

      Fresh tomatoes taste sweeter in summer.

    • sliced tomato

      番茄切片

      a tomato cut into flat pieces

      She put sliced tomato on her sandwich.

    • a tomato plant

      番茄植株

      a plant that grows tomatoes

      Our tomato plant grew tall against the wall.

    • tomato paste

      番茄膏／濃縮番茄醬

      a thick soft food made from cooked tomatoes

      Add a spoon of tomato paste to the stew.

    • ripe tomato

      熟透的番茄

      a tomato that is soft and ready to eat

      Pick a ripe tomato that feels soft but not mushy.

    • cherry tomatoes

      小番茄；聖女果

      small round tomatoes, often eaten whole

      Cherry tomatoes are perfect for a lunchbox.

core核心畫面

Picture the round red thing on the chopping board: soft, full of juice, sliced into a salad or cooked down into sauce. it grows like a fruit, but in the kitchen and at the market everyone treats it as a vegetable.

可以想成：砧板上那顆圓圓紅紅的東西——軟、多汁，切片放進沙拉，或煮成醬。植物學上它算果實，但在廚房和市場裡，大家都把它當蔬菜用。這個「學理上是水果、生活上是蔬菜」的落差，是英文課本很愛拿來討論的例子。

複數 tomatoes

原始詞典資料8 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。

tomatonoun/təˈmɑː.təʊ/

  • 1

    A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.

  • 2

    The savory fruit of this plant, most often red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.

    • He was chopping a tomato to put in the salad.
    • He was eating a tomato when his boss called him.
  • 3

    A shade of red, the colour typical of a ripe tomato.

  • 4

    slangAn attractive woman.

    • Deborah Harry, the New Wave goddess, is finally admitting -- after all the peroxide and posturing of the 1970's and 80's -- that she's really just a tomato (her word) from Paterson […].
    • When she left the room, I asked Robert, “Who's the tomato?” “Marisa. She's from Mexico.” He had a telltale smile on his face.
  • 5

    slangA stupid act or person.

tomatoadj/təˈmɑː.təʊ/

  • 1

    Of a shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.

    • Her face is on the cover: the Anne Estelle Rice portrait – or the black-eyed Japanese-bobbed head-and-shoulders bit of it – and the square-yoked dress is tomato, or pomegranate, but never persimmon. If it stayed too long in the sun and faded, well yes, maybe then…
    • And she’d slathered a heavy layer of foundation over the raw skin of her face with the end result being a complexion that was more tomato than orange.

tomatoverb/təˈmɑː.təʊ/

  • 1

    rareTo pelt with tomatoes.

  • 2

    rarecookingfoodlifestyleTo add tomatoes to (a dish).

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