- 1特調；調製物
A concoction is something you make by mixing different things together — most often a drink, sometimes food. People reach for this word when the mix is unusual: the parts are not a famous recipe, and they might not normally belong in the same cup or pan. An aunt who stirs ginger, lemon, honey, and one odd extra into a mug has made a concoction. A cook who tips leftover sauces into one pot might laugh and call that a concoction too — a little proud, a little unsure. The word often carries a small smile: homemade, experimental, maybe strange. A set restaurant dish with a proper name is not usually a concoction; a chemist’s labelled compound is not either, unless someone is teasing. Though actually, English stretches it. A concoction can also be a story or a plan that feels mixed together, or even made up — “a wild concoction” may mean a tale that does not quite add up. In everyday talk it is not a grand or official word. You use it when the mixing itself is what you want the listener to notice.
組成From Latin concoctiō, a cooking or mixing together.
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- concoctthe verb: to mix things into a concoction
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
concoctionnoun/kənˈkɒkʃən/
- 1
The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
- Salt is a very favoured ingredient of spell-binding concoctions.
- Deer Sperm: In ancient times, this was used as an ingredient on aphrodisiac concoctions. An example of organotherapy.
- 2
A mixture prepared in such a way.
- Years later, she had found out about the Voodoo drink - a concoction of rum, gunpowder, grave-dirt and human blood. She almost retched as the taste came back to her mouth.
- 3
Something made up, an invention.
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obsoleteDigestion (of food etc.).
- [Sorrow] hinders concoction, refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […]
- 5
obsoleteThe act of digesting in the mind; rumination.
- At laſt, the Phyſicians, after a long and ſtormie voyage, ſee land; They haue ſo good ſignes of the concoction of the diſeaſe, as that they may ſafely proceed to purge.
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obsoletemedicinesciencesAn abatement of a morbid process, such as a fever, and a return to a normal condition.
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obsoleteThe act of perfecting or maturing.
- There are also divers other great alterations of matter and bodies , besides those that tend to concoction and maturation
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