巧克力這種食材
這一組是核心畫面本身：把 chocolate 當成一種材料，不能數，只能講多少。
chocolate (food) · noun · A1
A sweet brown food made from cocoa, eaten on its own or used to give cakes and other foods a sweet taste.
巧克力
核心畫面
Picture the brown sweet stuff itself — made from cocoa, sweet, and a very particular dark brown. Everything else the word does is one step away from that: a piece of it you can hold and count, a cup of it you can drink, or just its colour borrowed for something that is not food at all.
可以想成 chocolate 最先指的是那個棕色的甜東西本身：用可可做的、甜的、而且是一種很好認的深棕色。其他用法都…更多收起
可以想成 chocolate 最先指的是那個棕色的甜東西本身：用可可做的、甜的、而且是一種很好認的深棕色。其他用法都只離這一步——把它做成一顆可以拿在手上數的東西、沖成一杯可以喝的東西，或者只借它那個顏色，去講一個根本不能吃的東西。Three branches
做成一份可以吃喝的
同一種東西被做成一份一份、可以數的樣子——手上拿一顆，或杯子裡裝一杯。所以這裡的 chocolate 變成可數名詞，可以說 a chocolate、two chocolates。這是英文裡常見的一招：材料不可數，做成一份就可數了。
a chocolate (candy) · noun · A1
A small sweet treat that is covered with or made of chocolate, often chosen from a box.
巧克力（一顆）
那個顏色
只借顏色，不管能不能吃。英文常用大家都看過的食物來命名顏色，因為講 chocolate 比講任何色號都清楚。
chocolate (colour) · noun · A1
A deep, dark brown colour, like the colour of chocolate.
巧克力色
原始詞典資料12 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。
chocolatenoun/ˈtʃɒk.(ə.)lət/
- 1
A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
- Chocolate is a very popular treat.
- In eighteenth century France, many aphrodisiac dishes and pastries were compounded with chocolate.
- 2
A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
- Chocolate came in those fairy cups of India china, which made the delight of our grandmothers, and whose value was such, that the poet satirist considered their loss to be the severest trial to a woman's feelings—alias her temper;...
- 3
A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
- He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away.
- Madame de Pompadour was fond of chocolates spiced with vanilla and amber.
- 4
A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
- As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.
- A small boy clutching a Negro woman’s hand walked toward us. He looked all Negro to me: he was rich chocolate with flaring nostrils and beautiful teeth.
- 5
A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.
- 6
slangA black person.
- "I suppose you have some of your sweet chocolates working for you?" Barney nodded.
- “How is my sexy chocolate?” Mark says on the other end.
- 7
slangA black person.
- I can consume as much of you as I want to without gaining weight. Sexy chocolate is what you are.
- “Yes Lucas, you're some fine sexy chocolate”, she whispered, her long dark hair covering her face and the curves bursting out of her dress.
chocolateadj/ˈtʃɒk.(ə.)lət/
- 1
Made of or containing chocolate.
- 2
Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.
- 3
slangBlack (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).
- She was a chocolate honey with all the assets necessary to never have to work hard to pay her bills.
- Therefore, African Americans complexion range from fair to mahogony. When a baby is born, it's always a mystery of the hue of the child. Sometimes the child will be as white as the slave owner or as chocolate as a great great grandparent.
chocolateverb/ˈtʃɒk.(ə.)lət/
- 1
rareTo add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.
- 2
rarebiologynatural-sciencesTo treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.
- Other formulations have been adopted to supply these growth factors; these include heating or "chocolating" the blood agar to release NAD directly from the erythrocytes in the agar medium.
- It is a chocolated blood agar but here whole horse blood is used.
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。