圍著架子的那場聚會
從器具擴出去到人：把一群人放在那個架子旁邊，這個字指的就不再是設備，而是那一場在戶外邊烤邊吃的聚會。
barbecue (party/meal) · noun · A2
a meal or party where food is cooked outdoors on a metal frame over a fire and eaten outside.
烤肉聚會
核心畫面
Start with the object, because everything here grows out of it: a metal frame standing over an open fire outdoors, with the food laid across the bars so the heat and smoke come up through it. Put food on the frame and you have the action. Put people around the frame on a warm evening and you have the occasion. The same word covers all three, and English lets you tell which one is meant by where it sits in the sentence — light the barbecue is the object, we barbecued the corn is the action, come to our barbecue is the party.
先從那個東西看起，因為其他意思都是從它長出來的：戶外一堆火上架著的金屬架子，食物橫放在架條上，熱氣和煙就從底下穿上來…更多收起
先從那個東西看起，因為其他意思都是從它長出來的：戶外一堆火上架著的金屬架子，食物橫放在架條上，熱氣和煙就從底下穿上來。把食物放上架子，就有了那個動作；在一個溫暖的傍晚讓一群人圍著這個架子，就有了那個場合。同一個字把三樣都收了進來，靠它在句子裡的位置就分得出來：light the barbecue 指的是那個架子，we barbecued the corn 指的是那個動作，come to our barbecue 指的是那場聚會。From the word’s history
The word travelled from Arawakan (Haiti) 'barbakoa' into American Spanish 'barbacoa' and then into English. The original word named a framework of sticks set on posts, used in the West Indies as a sleeping platform or for curing meat over a fire. English took the verb first, in the 1660s, 'to dry or roast on a gridiron', with the noun 'framework for grilling meat or fish' recorded from the 1690s; the 'outdoor feast as a social entertainment' sense is from 1733, and 'grill for cooking over an open fire' in its modern popular form from 1931.
這個字從海地的阿拉瓦克語 barbakoa 進入美洲西班牙文 barbacoa，再進到英文。最早指的是「架在柱子上的一副木架」，西印度群島的人拿它當睡覺的臺子，也拿它架在火上燻肉。英文先借走動詞（1660 年代，「在烤架上烘或烤」），名詞「烤肉用的架子」1690 年代才有紀錄；「戶外烤肉的社交聚會」這個意思出現在 1733 年，而今天大家熟悉的「炭火烤肉爐」則是 1931 年才定下來的。所以把「架子」當成這個字的起點，不只是好記，也是它實際走過的路。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'barbecue'
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Also in this word
barbecue grill · noun · A2
a metal frame used outdoors for cooking food over a fire.
烤肉架
grill outdoors · verb · A2
to cook food outdoors on a metal frame over a fire.
燒烤；烤
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
barbecuenoun/ˈbɑːbɪˌkjuː/
- 1
A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
- We cooked our food on the barbecue.
- 2
A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
- We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.
- The difference here is that the protagonists in this collection are, for the most part, at the end of their lives, and so the news of familial drama and divorce and the cocktail parties, barbecues and casual wooings of quotidian life in suburbia is given retrospectively, wistfully, presented in the larger context as memories of lost moments and lost opportunities.
- 3
Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded.
- She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw.
- 4
datedA hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
- 5
A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
- Drying the coffee beans took place in a barbecue, basically a large, flat platform, where the pulped coffee beans could be laid out and turned as they dried. Barbecues were often walled around and raised above ground level.
- 6
obsoleteA framework of sticks.
- 1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, Volume 2, London: James Knapton, “A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World,” Chapter 5, p. 90, We found no Houses of Entertainment on the Road, yet at every Village we came we got Houseroom, and a Barbacue of split Bambooes to sleep on.
barbecueverb/ˈbɑːbɪˌkjuː/
- 1
To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
- 2
To grill.
- 3
derogatoryslangTo kill or destroy using high heat or fire; to cook; to burn.
- Then he picked up a flamethrower and he barbecued Blitzen And he took a big bite and said, "It tastes just like chicken"
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。