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    /ˈkjuːkʌmbər/ · /ˈkjuːkʌmbə/

    A long thin round vegetable with dark green skin and a pale green inside. People usually eat it raw, in salads or sandwiches, without cooking it.

    黃瓜；小黃瓜

    複數 cucumbers

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核心畫面

You can picture one plain thing: a long, straight, dark-green vegetable that you slice open to a pale, wet, cool inside. It is not cooked and not seasoned — it goes straight into a salad or a sandwich, and what it brings is water and crunch rather than flavour.

可以想成一根長長直直、外皮深綠的蔬菜，切開來裡面是淡綠、含水、摸起來冰冰涼涼的。它幾乎不用煮、也不需要調味，直接切片…更多收起可以想成一根長長直直、外皮深綠的蔬菜，切開來裡面是淡綠、含水、摸起來冰冰涼涼的。它幾乎不用煮、也不需要調味，直接切片就丟進沙拉或夾進三明治裡——它帶來的主要是水分和清脆的口感，而不是味道。這個字只有這一個意思，沒有其他分支要記。

原始詞典資料3 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。

cucumbernoun/ˈkjuːˌkʌmbə/

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    A vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus.

    • ASPARAGUS, cauliflowers, imperial Sileſia, royal and cabbage lettuces, burnet, purſlain, cucumbers, naſturtian flowers, peaſe and beans ſown in October, artichokes, ſcarlet ſtrawberries, and kidney beans.
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    The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.

    • […]for it has been a common ſaying of phyſicians in England, that a cucumber ſhould be well ſliced, and dreſſed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
    • "Why, pepper and salt your reasons!" cried Curl, forgetting to look at the door for a moment: "your pamphlet has talent; but talent is like a cucumber, nothing without the dressing. You must be more personal."
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    informalA person who is calm and self-possessed.

    • The guy's a real cucumber.
    • That Wolf is one cool cucumber.

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。