Celery is a vegetable with long, pale green stems that snap when you bend them. People eat it raw — in salad, or with dip — or cooked in soup and stew. The leaves are edible too, and stronger in taste.

Celery is a vegetable with long, pale green stems that snap when you bend themCelery是一種蔬菜，莖又長又淡綠色，一折就會斷。 People eat it raw — in salad, or with dip大家生吃它——放在沙拉裡，或沾醬吃—— or cooked in soup and stew也會煮進湯或燉菜裡。 The leaves are edible too葉子也可以吃， and stronger in taste味道還更重一點。

English celery means this thick-stem plant. Though actually, the 芹菜 you meet every day in a Taiwan market is usually a thinner plant with a much stronger smell (Chinese celery, or leaf celery). They are related, but they do not look or taste the same.

English celery means this thick-stem plant英文的celery指的是這種粗莖的植物。 Though actually不過實際上， the 芹菜 you meet every day in a Taiwan market is usually a thinner plant with a much stronger smell台灣市場裡每天看到的『芹菜』，通常是莖比較細、味道濃很多的另一種植物， (Chinese celery, or leaf celery)（中國芹菜，或稱葉芹）。 They are related它們是親戚， but they do not look or taste the same但長相和味道都不一樣。

If a Western recipe says celery, it almost always means the thick pale stalks, not the local 芹菜. Older English had other names for wild celery, march and smallage, which this word replaced.

If a Western recipe says celery如果西式食譜寫celery， it almost always means the thick pale stalks幾乎都是指那種粗粗淡色的莖， not the local 芹菜不是本地的芹菜。 Older English had other names for wild celery, march and smallage早期英文對野生芹菜還有其他名字，march和smallage， which this word replaced後來都被這個字取代了。