Chorizo is a spicy sausage from Spain. It is usually pork, and the red colour and the heat come from smoked paprika.

Chorizo is a spicy sausage from Spain chorizo 是一種來自西班牙的辣味香腸。It is usually pork通常是豬肉做的, and the red colour and the heat come from smoked paprika它的紅色和辣味來自煙燻紅椒粉。

There is more than one kind: Spanish chorizo is often firm and dried, so you can slice it; Mexican chorizo is often soft and fresh, so you cook it and crumble it.

There is more than one kind不只一種: Spanish chorizo is often firm and dried西班牙式的 chorizo 通常是硬的、風乾的, so you can slice it所以可以切片; Mexican chorizo is often soft and fresh墨西哥式的 chorizo 通常是軟的、新鮮的, so you cook it and crumble it所以要煮過再弄碎。

English just kept the Spanish name — there is no homegrown English word for this sausage.

English just kept the Spanish name英文就直接沿用西班牙文的名字 — there is no homegrown English word for this sausage這種香腸沒有英文自己的說法。

You meet it in shops, recipes, and restaurants, not in old schoolbooks. It is food talk, not a formal word.

You meet it in shops, recipes, and restaurants你會在店裡、食譜和餐廳裡遇到這個字, not in old schoolbooks而不是在舊課本裡。It is food talk這是美食用語, not a formal word不是正式的字。

Though actually, if someone only says sausage, they do not mean this. Chorizo has a smoky paprika taste that ordinary sausage does not.

Though actually不過其實, if someone only says sausage如果有人只說 sausage, they do not mean this他們指的不是這個。Chorizo has a smoky paprika taste chorizo 有一種煙燻紅椒的味道 that ordinary sausage does not這是一般香腸沒有的。