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A clear soup made by simmering meat (often beef or chicken) or vegetables, then straining it until you can see through the liquid. English borrowed the word from French and kept the French spelling, accent and all. You meet it on restaurant menus and in ; it sounds than plain “clear soup,” and chefs keep it for that reason. The point is the clarity: if the soup is cloudy or thick, people will argue it is not consommé. Home cooks sometimes stretch the word to any refined .
法式清湯
組成Unadapted borrowing from French consommé (English kept the French form). Doublet of consummate: both go back to a Latin verb about finishing or bringing something to completion — in French the soup is the broth boiled down and clarified until it is “done.” Not from English consume.
同家族的字
- consummatedoublet from the same Latin verb (to finish / complete), not a parent word of the soup
原始詞典資料1 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。
consomménoun/ˈkɒnsəˌmeɪ/
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a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock, served either hot as a soup or chilled as a jelly
- For after washing at the hotel at Patras, Jacob had followed the tram lines a mile or so out; and followed them a mile or so back; he had met several droves of turkeys; several strings of donkeys; had got lost in back streets; had read advertisements of corsets and Maggi's consommé; children had trodden on his toes; the place smelt of bad cheese; and he was glad to find himself suddenly come out opposite his hotel.
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。