核心畫面
One way to hold cooking is: take the action cook and wrap it up into one thing you can name. That wrapped-up parcel can be the whole job (chopping, mixing, heating, serving), the food that comes out of the job, or — placed in front of a noun — a label saying 'this is for that job'.
可以想成：把 cook 這個動作整包提起來，變成一個可以指著談的東西。這一包可以是「做菜這整件事」——切、拌、加熱、…更多收起
可以想成：把 cook 這個動作整包提起來，變成一個可以指著談的東西。這一包可以是「做菜這整件事」——切、拌、加熱、端上桌；也可以是這件事做出來的成果，也就是端上桌的那些菜；而當它放到名詞前面時，就變成一個標籤，說「這東西是為了做菜而存在的」。原始詞典資料9 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。
cookingnoun/ˈkʊkɪŋ/
- 1
The process of preparing food by using heat.
- The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
- The cooking took a long time. Fionn built a spit from the ash that the salmon had knocked down.
- 2
rareAn instance of preparing food by using heat.
- In the tiny kitchen a dozen men and a boy tried to hush their breathing, and sweltered. For it was very hot, and the pent-up odor of past cookings was stifling to men used to the open
- This culinary process is but the first in a series of cookings, of which the intracorporeal cookings constitute the rest.
- 3
The result of preparing food by using heat.
- My cooking isn't very good. I don't have any idea how to prepare a good meal.
- I missed my mum's cooking while I was at university.
- 4
The result of preparing food by using heat.
- What you've produced is a perfect example of authentic Chinese cooking.
- One of the most common styles of Japanese cooking is called nimono.
- 5
The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house.
- ‘Pint of bitter, please,” said Reggie. ‘Pint of cooking,” said the landlord.
cookingadj/ˈkʊkɪŋ/
- 1
Designed or suitable for culinary purposes.
- I filled the cooking pot with water, and poured some cooking sherry into the skillet.
- This tree bears cooking apples.
- 2
informalIn progress, happening.
- The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.
- 3
Cheap; better suited for use in recipes than drinking.
- Bone a shoulder of mutton and lay in the following pickle for 24 hours, viz.:…half pint of cooking claret…and long peppers.
- JOHN JASPER: Mama says for you to come on upstairs and bring her a pint of cooking sherry. BODIDDLY: You know your Mama ain’t gonna do no cooking this time of the night!
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。