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Brine is water with a lot of salt mixed into it, used mostly for preserving or flavoring food, like pickles, olives, or meat — food in brine is called 'brining.' It's also used, more generally and in a slightly old, poetic way, to mean or the ocean.
鹽水（醃製食物用）
原始詞典資料5 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。
Brinename
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A surname.
brinenoun/ˈbɹaɪ̯n/
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Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.
- Do you want a can of tuna in oil or in brine?
- Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
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The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.
- Ariell: Not a ſoule But felt a Feauer of the madde, and plaid Some tricks of deſperation ; all but Mariners Plung'd in the foaming bryne, and quit the veſſell ; Then all a fire with me the Kings ſonne Ferdinand With haire vp-ſtaring (then like reeds, not haire) Was the firſt man that leapt ; cride hell is empty, And all the Diuels are heere.
- "Ho, aboard the Salt Junk Sarah, Rollin" home across the line, The Bo'sun collared the Captain's hat And threw it in the brine.
brineverb/ˈbɹaɪ̯n/
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To preserve food in a salt solution.
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To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution.
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。