- 1美式咖啡（菜單上的 Americano）。台灣店家說「美式」時，多半就是義式濃縮加水；少數店的「美式」其實是滴濾咖啡，和這個英文字不完全一樣。
An americano is a café coffee: (the small, very strong Italian coffee) with hot water poured in. You get a bigger cup than , still quite strong, but not as thick and intense. People order it by this name in coffee shops; you can also have it iced. The name means “American” in Italian (and in American Spanish). The usual story is that American soldiers in Italy wanted their stretched with water, more like the long coffee they drank at home. Though actually, what many Americans drink at home is drip coffee, not this drink — an americano is the -bar way of getting something in that direction. There is also a cocktail called an americano (with alcohol); if someone says “I’ll have an americano” in a café, they almost always mean the coffee. In English the drink name is usually written with a small a, like or .
組成From Italian (caffè) americano or American Spanish americano, “American (coffee).” The name came into English as a drink word in the 1970s. The cocktail of the same name is also from Italian americano.
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。
Americanonoun
- 1
An American.
- I hear that your people love the Americanos, so much even that they always yield to them, and would almost kiss their boots, which is not dignified for a great nation. Do the Americanos love your people? Have they not still in their pockets the surplus of the millions of pesetas given to them when they complained of the ship Alabama?
- On da Av’noo D near Ten street Peno wida all heesa granda, magnifique muscle was grind out Signor Tomaso Mascagni’s maestropiece, ‘Cavallierre Rusticana,’ when long coma half doz verra bad Americano kid wid da snowball.
americanonoun
- 1
A drink made of espresso coffee diluted with hot water.
- Bond ordered an Americano and examined the sprinkling of over-dressed customers, mostly from Paris he guessed, who sat talking with focus and vivacity, creating that theatrically clubbable atmosphere of l'heure de l'apéritif.
- “No, the coffee. Do you want a cup of Americano?” I groaned. Welcome to Europe. “Can't I just get a cup of regular coffee? A little cream, a little sugar?” […] “An Americano is a shot of espresso with hot water added.” “I don't know why they call it Americano. No one in America drinks espresso and hot water.”
- 2
A cocktail made with Campari, sweet vermouth, and club soda.
- The waiters wore striped waistcoats and green baize aprons. Bond ordered an Americano and examined the sprinkling of overdressed customers, mostly from Paris he guessed, who sat talking with focus and vivacity, creating that theatrically clubbable atmosphere of l'heure de l'aperitif.
- An Americano is made of Campari, sweet vermouth, and soda water over ice in a highball glass. […] The drink was so popular among Americans visiting Italy at the turn of the last century that it was named after them.
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