動詞：為了吃而嚼
核心畫面最直接的用法：反覆的咬，目的是把食物弄到能吞下去。
chew (food) · verb · A2
To bite food again and again with your teeth, so that it becomes soft and small enough for you to swallow it.
咀嚼；嚼
核心畫面
Teeth going up and down on something again and again, slowly working it soft. Not one bite — many, over time.
「牙齒一下一下，反覆磨同一樣東西」。重點不在咬破，而在「一直咬」：時間拉長、動作重複、東西慢慢變軟。這個字跟 bit…更多收起
「牙齒一下一下，反覆磨同一樣東西」。重點不在咬破，而在「一直咬」：時間拉長、動作重複、東西慢慢變軟。這個字跟 bite 的差別就在這裡——bite 是一口，chew 是一直。也因為它天生帶著「慢慢磨、不放開」的味道，英文很自然地把它借去講兩件事：一是嘴巴閒著沒事的那種咬（緊張時咬筆、牛反芻、閒聊），二是名詞化之後指「要咬很久的那個東西」（軟糖、嚼菸）。Three branches
動詞：嘴巴沒停，但不是為了吃
同樣的反覆動作，把「為了吞下去」這個目的抽掉之後剩下的部分：持續、不放開。
chew on/at something · verb · B1
To keep biting something that is in your mouth for a long time, either to get the taste out of it or because you are feeling nervous. Often used as chew on something or chew at something.
咬著嚼；咬著不放
名詞：那個動作，和要嚼很久的東西
把動作凍結成一個名詞：可以指「嚼這件事」本身，也可以指「拿來嚼的那樣東西」。
a chew (bite) · noun · B1
One time when you bite something many times with your teeth; the act of chewing something.
咀嚼（動作）；嚼一嚼
原始詞典資料13 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。
Chewname
- 1
A surname.
- 2
A river in Somerset, England.
chewverb詞源 1/tʃuː/
- 1
To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
- Make sure to chew thoroughly, and don't talk with your mouth full!
- The steak was tough to chew as it had been cooked too long.
- 2
To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
- He keeps his feed in steel drums to prevent the mice from chewing holes in the feed-sacks.
- The harsh desert wind and sand had chewed the stump into ragged strips of wood.
- 3
informalThe condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
- Avoiding Tape Chew. In the early days of the ADAT, the "V" blocks (two arms that thread the tape around the front of the head) could sometimes get out of alignment and "chew" the outside track […]
- 4
informalTo think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
- The professor stood at the blackboard, chalk in hand, and chewed the question the student had asked.
- Old politicians chew on wisdom past.
- 5
To chew tobacco.
- To reduce cancer risk, it is best that you neither chew nor smoke.
- He'd been chewing for many years by the time he first noticed some white plaques on his oral mucosa.
chewnoun詞源 2/tʃuː/
- 1
The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
- I popped the gum into my mouth and gave it a chew.
- 2
Level of chewiness.
- Once it's cooked, it's not enough of a hard chew to count.
- A bread with a strong and solidified gluten network has a nice chew to it, and many types of charcuterie call for just enough work by the teeth to be dangerously addictive. But in all cases, chewy must be combined with an appropriate amount of ...
- 3
A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
- Phillip purchased a bag of licorice chews at the drugstore.
- 4
informalChewing tobacco.
- The school had banned chew and smokes from the school grounds, even for adults.
- 5
A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
- The ballplayers sat on the bench watching the rain, glumly working their chews.
- The first time he chewed tobacco, he swallowed his chew and got extremely sick.
- 6
informalThe condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
- Avoiding Tape Chew. In the early days of the ADAT, the "V" blocks (two arms that thread the tape around the front of the head) could sometimes get out of alignment and "chew" the outside track […]
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。