喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/ˈvɪnɪɡər/ · /ˈvɪnɪɡə/醋

    a liquid with a strong sour taste, made from malt or wine, that people put in food to make it taste better, or keep food in so that it stays good for a long time.

    示範例句 · Example

    Mei poured oil and vinegar over the salad.

    逐字美把油和醋倒在沙拉上。

    vinegar 就是廚房裡那瓶酸酸的液體——白醋、烏醋、酒醋、蘋果醋都算。它有兩個工作：一個是讓食物更好吃（淋在沙拉上、當餃子沾醬），另一個是把食物泡在裡面保存（醃小黃瓜、醃辣椒）。這個字可以想成「變酸的酒」：它從古法文的 vin（酒）加 aigre（酸）長出來，酒放久變酸，就成了醋。

    常見搭配

    • oil and vinegar

      油醋（沙拉調味）

      the usual simple mix put on a salad

      She likes her salad with just oil and vinegar.

    • balsamic vinegar

      巴薩米克醋／義大利黑醋

      a dark, sweet vinegar from Italy

      A little balsamic vinegar tastes good on fresh tomatoes.

    • white vinegar

      白醋

      clear vinegar with a sharp taste

      The recipe says to use white vinegar, not the dark kind.

    • wine vinegar

      酒醋（紅酒醋、白酒醋）

      vinegar made from wine

      Red wine vinegar makes the sauce a little sweeter.

    • cider vinegar

      蘋果醋

      vinegar made from apples

      Hana mixes cider vinegar with honey and warm water.

    • a splash of vinegar

      淋一點點醋

      a small amount of vinegar poured quickly

      Sam finished the noodles with a splash of vinegar.

    • pickled in vinegar

      用醋醃漬保存

      kept in vinegar so it does not go bad

      These small cucumbers are pickled in vinegar.

    用法接近

    vinaigrettedressingpicklelemon juicesaucesalt

core核心畫面

A small bottle of clear, sharp-smelling liquid that makes your face pull tight if you taste it. It comes from wine or malt going sour, but this kind of going-bad is useful: the same sourness wakes up the taste of food, and also keeps bacteria out, so things stored in it last a long time.

一小瓶清清的液體，聞起來嗆，一滴進嘴裡整張臉會皺起來——那個酸。它是酒或麥汁放到「壞掉」之後變成的東西，但這種壞掉剛好有用：同樣的酸讓菜的味道整個亮起來（沙拉、薯條上淋一點），也讓細菌活不下去，所以泡在裡面的小黃瓜、洋蔥可以放很久。所以這瓶東西身上一直有兩個角色並存——調味的，和保存的。

From the word’s history

From Old French vyn egre, literally 'sour wine' (vin + egre), which is exactly what it is: not a made-from-nothing seasoning but wine that has fermented one step further. The egre part is the same root behind English eager.

vinegar 來自古法文 vyn egre，就是 vin（酒）+ egre（酸），字面上是「酸掉的酒」——這正好說明了它是什麼：不是憑空做出來的調味料，而是酒繼續發酵之後變成的東西。認得 egre 這個部分也順便認得英文的 eager（原本是「尖銳、急切」的意思，跟 acid 同源）。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'vinegar'

同家族的字

複數 vinegars

用法接近

vinaigrettedressingpicklelemon juicesaucesalt

原始詞典資料4 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。

vinegarnoun/ˈvɪnəɡəː/

  • 1

    A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solution of acetic acid.

    • In Persia, newly married couples were presented with sheep's trotters steeped in vinegar as a love enticement.
  • 2

    Any variety of vinegar.

    • a range of herb-flavoured vinegars
  • 3

    informalVigor; vitality.

    • You full of vinegar now, but you 'bout through / We gonna get a steam drill to do your share of driving / Then what's all them muscles gonna do? Huh, John Henry? / Gonna take a little bit of vinegar out of you.
    • [Rahm Emanuel] was full of vinegar on his proposal of mandatory retirement at age 75 for the president and the rest of the executive branch, as well as Congress and the judiciary.

vinegarverb/ˈvɪnəɡəː/

  • 1

    To season or otherwise treat with vinegar.

    • Accordingly, after a vast amount of moaning and crying up-stairs, and much damping of foreheads, and vinegaring of temples, and hartshorning of noses, and so forth […]

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