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/ˈdoʊnʌt/ · /ˈdəʊnʌt/
A small round sweet cake, often shaped like a ring (especially American English; also spelled ).
甜甜圈
複數 donuts
核心畫面
Picture a small round piece of sweet dough dropped into hot oil: it puffs up, turns golden, and comes out soft inside with a slightly crisp skin — often with a hole punched through the middle so it cooks evenly. That fried ring, still warm, dusted with sugar or coated in glaze, is the whole of the word.
可以想成一小塊甜麵團丟進熱油裡:它膨起來、變成金黃色,撈起來外面微脆、裡面鬆軟,中間常常還打了一個洞,好讓它熟得均勻…更多收起
可以想成一小塊甜麵團丟進熱油裡:它膨起來、變成金黃色,撈起來外面微脆、裡面鬆軟,中間常常還打了一個洞,好讓它熟得均勻。那個熱熱的、灑著糖粉或裹著糖霜的油炸圈,就是這個字的全部畫面。From the word’s history
Dough + nut, first recorded 1809 in American English — 'a small, spongy cake made of dough and fried in lard', named on the idea of a small round lump. The hole is a later development, first mentioned around 1861.
這個字就是 dough(麵團)加上 nut(堅果)拼起來的,1809 年最早出現在美式英文裡,指「用麵團做、下豬油炸的小海綿蛋糕」——nut 取的是「一小顆圓圓的塊狀物」那個感覺。中間那個洞是後來才有的,大約 1861 年才被提到。所以最早的 donut 其實是實心小圓球,先有「圓」,後有「洞」。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'doughnut'
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。
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。