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    Basil is a soft green herb with a strong smell and a strong taste, used in cooking.

    Basil羅勒 is a soft green herb是一種柔軟的綠色香草，with a strong smell and a strong taste氣味濃、味道也重，used in cooking用來做菜。

    The kind most English recipes mean is sweet basil: bright leaves, a little sweet, a little peppery, famous in Italian food — torn over tomatoes, stirred into pasta, crushed into . You usually add it near the end, because a long time on the heat knocks the smell out.

    The kind most English recipes mean大部分英文食譜說的 is sweet basil其實是甜羅勒：bright leaves, a little sweet, a little peppery葉子鮮綠，帶點甜、帶點辛香，famous in Italian food在義大利菜裡很有名——torn over tomatoes, stirred into pasta, crushed into pesto撕碎灑在番茄上、拌進義大利麵裡、搗碎做成青醬。You usually add it near the end通常快煮好前才加進去，because a long time on the heat knocks the smell out因為加熱太久香氣會跑掉。

    In English, basil by itself almost always means this Western cooking herb.

    In English在英文裡，basil by itselfbasil 這個字單獨使用時 almost always means幾乎都是指 this Western cooking herb這種西式的料理香草。

    There is also Thai basil, which tastes more like ; that is a close cousin, not exactly the same leaf. The man’s name Basil is the same spelling, but that is a person, not the plant.

    There is also Thai basil另外還有 Thai basil（泰式羅勒），which tastes more like aniseed味道比較像八角；that is a close cousin那是近親，not exactly the same leaf不完全是同一種葉子。The man's name Basil男生名字 Basil is the same spelling拼法一樣，but that is a person, not the plant但那是人名，不是這種植物。

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組成The name came through French and Latin from Ancient Greek basilikón, royal, from basileús, king. People treated it as the royal herb.

同家族的字

  • basilicaboth go back to Greek for royal / king — the herb was the royal plant, the building was a royal hall
  • Basilthe given name, from the same Greek word for king

原始詞典資料10 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。

Basilname/ˈbæz.əl/

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    A male given name from Ancient Greek, in quiet but steady use in the UK.

    • "Nonsense. I'm sure he can't have grey hair with such a pretty name as that. Basil Brooke, Basil Brooke," and May chanted the name over and over in her girlish, musical voice. "It sounds like all sorts of pleasant pictures. - -

basilnoun詞源 1/ˈbæz.əl/

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    A plant (Ocimum basilicum).

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    The leaves of this plant used as a herb.

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    Any other species in the genus Ocimum.

basilnoun詞源 2/ˈbæz.əl/

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    The angle to which a joiner's tool is ground away.

    • [H]old the edge of your Iron upvvards in your left hand and your VVhet-ſtone in your right, and having firſt ſpit upon your Stone to vvet it, apply it to the Baſil of your Iron, in ſuch a Poſition that it may bear upon the vvhole bredth of the Baſil; and ſo vvorking the Stone over the Baſil, you vvill quickly vvear the courſer grating of the Grind ſtone off the edge on that ſide: […]

basilverb詞源 2/ˈbæz.əl/

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    To grind the edge of a tool to an acute angle.

    • These usually large chisels may have the edge basiled on either the inside or the outside of the 90° angle of the blade.

basilnoun詞源 3/ˈbæz.əl/

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    The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.

    • Each sleeper has for covering a large basil (dressed sheep-skin), such as cobblers use for aprons. As they lie in long rows, in the most profound repose, with these dark brown wrappers about them, they present the uniform look and arrangement of a long line of mummies.

basilnoun詞源 4/ˈbæz.əl/

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    obsoleteA type of cannon.

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    archaichistoricalA fetter fastened round the ankle of a prisoner.

    • When I once more feel that sharp smarting around the scabby sores that cluster like so many oysters on my ankles beneath my chained iron basils, I know that the tide has turned.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。