Sugar
['ʃʊgə] or ['ʃʊgɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative.
(verb.) sweeten with sugar; 'sugar your tea'.
整理:弗娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below.
(n.) By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.
(n.) Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
(v. i.) In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off.
(v. t.) To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.
(v. t.) To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.
編輯:罗赞娜
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Sweeten.
整理:凯蒂
解釋/意思:
n. a sweet substance obtained chiefly from a kind of cane: anything sugary honeyed words flattery.—v.t. to sprinkle or mix with sugar: to compliment.—ns. Sug′ar-bak′er a sugar-refiner; Sug′ar-beet any one of several varieties of the common garden beet grown for sugar; Sug′ar-can′dy sugar candied or in large crystals; Sug′ar-cane the saccharine grass (Saccharum officinarum) from which sugar is chiefly obtained.—adj. Sug′ar-coat′ed coated with sugar.—p.adj. Sug′ared sweetened with sugar.—ns. Sug′ar-gum a large Australian eucalyptus yielding good timber with sweetish foliage; Sug′ar-house a factory where sugar is made; Sug′ariness state or quality of being sugary or sweet; Sug′ar-loaf a loaf or mass of sugar usually in the form of a truncated cone; Sug′ar-mā′ple the hard maple; Sug′ar-mill a machine for pressing out the juice of the sugar-cane; Sug′ar-mite a mite infesting unrefined sugar; Sug′ar-plum a species of sweetmeat made up in small ornamental balls or lumps like a plum: any very pleasing piece of flattery; Sug′ar-refī′ner one who refines raw sugar; Sug′ar-refī′nery.—n.pl. Sug′ar-tongs an implement for lifting pieces of sugar at table.—adj. Sug′ary sweetened with tasting of or like sugar: fond of sweets.—Sugar of lead acetate of lead.
艾弗里校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of sugar, denotes that you will be hard to please in your domestic life, and will entertain jealousy while seeing no cause for aught but satisfaction and secure joys. There may be worries, and your strength and temper taxed after this dream. To eat sugar in your dreams, you will have unpleasant matters to contend with for a while, but they will result better than expected. To price sugar, denotes that you are menaced by enemies. To deal in sugar and see large quantities of it being delivered to you, you will barely escape a serious loss. To see a cask of sugar burst and the sugar spilling out, foretells a slight loss. To hear a negro singing while unloading sugar, some seemingly insignificant affair will bring you great benefit, either in business or social states.
伊迪丝錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Dissolve the citric acid in hot water, add the sugar, and lastly the lemon and almonds. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- He is a corn merchant this year, and a wine merchant the next, and a sugar, tobacco, or tea merchant the year after. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- To this brine would be added a little sugar and saltpetre, and, after packing the meat the same as in the other case, enough of this brine would be added to entirely cover the meat. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- To make imitation maple syrup simply boil the syrup until it is reduced back to sugar again, and when it is made properly the flavor and appearance of the genuine article is obtained. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- The father of one of his students was engaged in the manufacture of alcohol from beetroot sugar, and Pasteur came to be consulted when difficulties arose in the manufacturing process. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- And also much beets for sugar. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The remainder of the sugar settles at the bottom of the vessel, and cannot be dissolved by any amount of stirring. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Oh, there are so many superior teas and sugars now. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Sugars is ris', my boy. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- While, for example, Muscovado sugars from the British plantations pay, upon importation, only 6s:4d. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- We still have, though not altogether, yet very nearly, the monopoly of the sugars of our West Indian islands. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Commercially, charcoal is used on a large scale in the refining of sugars, sirups, and oils. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Jo's one strong point was the fruit, for she had sugared it well, and had a pitcher of rich cream to eat with it. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Do look at this bridegroom coming out of church: did you ever see such a 'sugared invention'--as the Elizabethans used to say? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
整理:温弗雷德