核心畫面

Picture food over heat, slowly turning from raw into something ready to eat. That single act — applying heat to make food ready — is the core. From it the word grows two simple ways: the PERSON who does it (a cook), and a set of figures of speech where 'cooking' over hidden heat means something is being secretly prepared, faked, or going really well.

可以想成食物擱在火上,慢慢從生的變成可以吃的。這個動作本身——「加熱把食物弄熟」——就是核心。從這裡長出兩條簡單的路更多收起可以想成食物擱在火上,慢慢從生的變成可以吃的。這個動作本身——「加熱把食物弄熟」——就是核心。從這裡長出兩條簡單的路:一條是「做這件事的人」(廚師),另一條是一串借「在火上煮」打的比方——東西在暗火上「煮」,就是在偷偷醞釀、動手腳,或正進行得火熱順手。

Three branches

加熱把食物弄熟

這一族是核心動作的字面用法:用熱把食物變熟。

prepare food with heat · verb · A1

To make food ready to eat by using heat.

煮、烹飪

比喻:在暗火上「煮」

把「在火上煮、慢慢變出成品」這個畫面挪去講看不見的事:有東西正被偷偷弄出來、被動手腳,或進行得正熱。煮的不是食物,而是計畫、帳目、或氣勢。

being secretly planned · verb · A1

If something is cooking, a plan or idea is being made in a secret way.

(計畫)正在暗中醞釀

做這件事的人

把核心動作的「做的人」名詞化:會煮的那個人就是 cook。再延伸到評論一個人煮得好不好,以及一句關於人多反壞事的諺語。

a chef · noun · A1

Someone whose job is to prepare and cook meals.

廚師、煮飯的人

原始詞典資料39 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。

Cookname/kʊk/

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    An English surname originating as an occupation for a cook or seller of cooked food. Famously held by James Cook, English captain and explorer of the Pacific Ocean, and for whom the Cook Islands, Cook Strait and Mount Cook were named.

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另外 4 個記錄的用法
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    An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

cooknoun詞源 1/kʊk/

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    cookingfoodlifestyleA person who prepares food.

    • I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.
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    cookingfoodlifestyleThe head cook of a manor house.

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    cookingfoodlifestyleThe degree or quality of cookedness of food.

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    artsbusinessconstructionThe member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.

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    slangOne who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

    • Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
    • By late October, the pressure on the Dark Arrows' ecstasy cook had eased. Other suppliers had moved in with product.
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    slangA session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

    • Punko told Plante he wanted to use a full barrel for the next cook.
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    A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

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    board-gameschessgamesAn unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.

    • The original endgame was one file to the right (Kf1, Kb5 etc.). But there is a cook after 1. c6 dxc6 2. d6 cxd6 3. h4 gxh3 e.p. 4. gxh3 Ka4! 5. h4 b5. My version eliminates the cook.

cookverb詞源 2/kʊk/

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    To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc.

    • I'm cooking bangers and mash.
    • He's in the kitchen, cooking.
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    To apply heat to food in the course of preparing it, particularly in a way that transforms it rather than simply making it warmer.

    • You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
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    To undergo cooking.

    • The dinner is cooking on the stove.
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    video-gamesTo smelt.

    • Your suggestion makes sense. You cook iron with coal to get... iron. The coal is expended, where does it go? inside the iron to turn it into steel in real life. I approve
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    To be uncomfortably hot.

    • Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
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    slangTo kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.

    • You would die from what we might call "extremely acute radiation poisoning" – that is, you would be cooked.
    • "What's coming?" "Dunno yet. Cindy! Active scanning! Pulse hard, but don't cook any friendlies." "We have sensors that can cook people?" "Another reason why warship combat is not an indoor sport."
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    slangTo execute by electric chair.

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    slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsTo hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.

    • I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.
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    To concoct or prepare.

    • My brother was locked up for cooking meth in his basement.
    • Jesse, we need to cook.
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    slangTo tamper with or alter; to cook up.

    • They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different, that there is no citizen, who has an eye to the public good, who can leave the coffee-house with peace of mind...
    • So far as Pridger was concerned the game was up. He had cooked the buying, he had cooked the selling, he had systematically pillaged the stock.
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    slangTo play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)

    • Watch this band: they cook!
    • Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!
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    slangentertainmentlifestylemusicTo play music vigorously.

    • On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!
    • The tempos were swift. The orchestra cooked, reading [conductor] Kahane's mind and swinging with him as one.
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    slangTo proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).

    • Hol' up, let that boy cook!
    • OK, who let him cook?
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    slangTo proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).

    • We had to deal with some problems at first, but now we're cooking.
    • My bar was built by Frazier, Gary Manson, Robert Feck, Jeff Picoli — that's who built my bar. When I hired those people, that's when my bar started cookin'. 'Cause Frazier gets along with anybody — he has a magnetic personality, and he can make the worst piece of shit feel like king for a day.
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    derogatoryslangTo proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).

    • The furlough of workers during The Lockdowns left many with a conspiracy bent ample time to cook.
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    slangTo defeat or humiliate.

    • He didn't prepare for the debate at all, so his opponent cooked him hard.
    • You didn't have to cook him like that!
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    slangTo cause to be cooked, i.e. to put in a hopeless situation.

    • This new labor law is really cooking working-class people.
    • This assignment is cooking me big time.

cookverb詞源 3/kʊk/

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    obsoleterareTo make the noise of the cuckoo.

    • Constant cuckoos cook on every side.

cookverb詞源 4/kʊk/

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    obsoletedialectalTo throw.

    • Cook. To throw. Cook me that ball, throw me that ball. Glou.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。