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Brie is a soft French cheese made from cow’s milk. The inside is pale and creamy, almost thick enough to spread; the outside has a thin white skin that you can eat. When it is ready it smells stronger than it looks, and it can run a little if the room is warm.
Brie is a soft French cheesebrie是一種軟質的法國起司 made from cow's milk用牛奶做的. The inside is pale and creamy裡面是淡色、奶油狀的, almost thick enough to spread濃稠到幾乎可以塗抹; the outside has a thin white skin that you can eat外面有一層薄薄的白色外皮,是可以吃的. When it is ready熟成之後 it smells stronger than it looks聞起來比看起來還要濃, and it can run a little if the room is warm房間如果暖的話還會稍微流出來一點.
The cheese is named after Brie, a region east of Paris, where people have made this kind of cheese for a very long time. In English we usually say brie for the cheese (often with a small b), though you will also see Brie.
The cheese is named after Brie這種起司是用Brie這個地方命名的, a region east of Paris巴黎東邊的一個地區, where people have made this kind of cheese for a very long time那裡的人做這種起司已經很久了. In English we usually say brie for the cheese英文通常把這種起司拼成小寫brie (often with a small b)(通常b是小寫), though you will also see Brie不過你也會看到大寫Brie.
It sits next to in shops: they look alike, but brie is often a bit milder and comes as a larger, flatter wheel. You meet the word in food shops, on menus, and when people put together a cheese board.
It sits next to camembert in shops它在店裡常常擺在camembert旁邊: they look alike兩者長得很像, but brie is often a bit milder但brie通常味道比較溫和一點, and comes as a larger, flatter wheel而且是比較大、比較扁的一輪. You meet the word in food shops, on menus, and when people put together a cheese board你會在食品店、菜單上,還有大家準備起司拼盤的時候看到這個字.
It is not slang and not fancy English; it is just the name of the cheese. People say it as one syllable, like “bree”, not “bry-ee”.
It is not slang and not fancy English這不是俚語,也不是什麼花俏的英文; it is just the name of the cheese就只是這種起司的名字. People say it as one syllable, like "bree"唸的時候是一個音節,像「bree」, not "bry-ee"不是「bry-ee」。
組成Borrowed from French brie, after the region of Brie. That place name comes from Gaulish *brigā, from Proto-Celtic *brigā, “hill” or “fortress”.
原始詞典資料4 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。
Briename詞源 1
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historicalA region in northern France.
Briename詞源 2
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A female given name.
Briename詞源 3
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A surname.
brienoun/bɹiː/
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An originally French variety of soft cheese made from cow's milk.
- And your socks smell of angels / But your life smells of brie
- Up it goes to Instagram with the caption “I can’t brie-leave how good this is!!!”. There is no brie in this sandwich.
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。