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To brew means to make a drink like tea, coffee, or beer by mixing it with hot water or letting it sit. 'A brew' can also mean the drink itself, especially beer, or , a cup of tea. 'Something is brewing' means something, often trouble like a storm or an argument, is starting to develop.
沖泡;釀造;醞釀(中)
原始詞典資料14 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。
Brewname
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A surname.
brewverb詞源 1/bɹuː/
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To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
- Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]
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To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
- Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.
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To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
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To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
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To foment or prepare, as by brewing.
- Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]
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To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
- I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […]
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To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
- There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
- Of course, no one knows what kind of flu season is brewing, the perfect storm of a new strain hitting a largely unvaccinated population or a mercifully mild few months.
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obsoleteTo boil or seethe; to cook.
- She had one day to get up very early in the morning to brew, when the other servants said to her: 'You had better mind you don't get up too early, and you mustn't put any fire under the copper before two o'clock.'
brewnoun詞源 1/bɹuː/
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The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
- Six great bottles of one of the Hong Kong brews had been brought to wash down the brandy and the fragments of rice and mee and meat-fibres that clung to the back teeth.
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slangThe mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
- Player, give me some brew and I might just chill / But I'm the type that like to light another joint like Cypress Hill
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slangThe mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
- Landlady: You're not stoppin' for a brew? Gene Hunt: No thanks, love. Better crack on.
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A boiled concoction or mixture of liquids and other ingredients.
- In the Middle Ages, when witchcraft and thaumaturgic practices were rampant over Europe, sorceresses did a roaring trade in magic brews designed to excite the passion or to preserve affection.
brewnoun詞源 2
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dialectalAn overhanging hill or cliff.
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。