喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˈdoʊnʌt/ · /ˈdəʊnʌt/甜甜圈

    A small round sweet cake, often shaped like a ring (especially American English; also spelled ).

    「donut」是「小小的圓形甜蛋糕」，常常中間有一個洞，台灣就叫「甜甜圈」。它是可數名詞：one donut, two donuts。核心畫面可以想成「小小的圓形甜蛋糕，常常中間有洞」。跟 doughnut 是同一樣食物——donut 偏美式簡寫，doughnut 是比較傳統的拼法；意思一樣，只是字母寫法不同。

    示範例句 · Example

    Mei ordered a chocolate donut and a cup of milk.

    中文翻譯美點了一個巧克力甜甜圈和一杯牛奶。

    常見搭配

    • eat a donut

      吃甜甜圈

      to have that sweet cake as food

      Sam likes to eat a donut after swimming practice.

    • a box of donuts

      一盒甜甜圈

      several donuts packed together to share or take home

      Mum brought a box of donuts to the office meeting.

    • chocolate donut

      巧克力甜甜圈

      a donut flavored or topped with chocolate

      Zoe always chooses the chocolate donut.

    • glazed donut

      糖霜／糖衣甜甜圈

      a donut covered with a thin sweet shiny coating

      The bakery's glazed donuts smell warm every morning.

    • powdered-sugar donut

      糖粉甜甜圈

      a donut covered with fine white sugar powder

      Mei chose a powdered-sugar donut and got sugar on her fingers.

    • coffee and a donut

      咖啡配甜甜圈

      coffee served together with a donut

      Grandpa has coffee and a donut every Sunday morning.

core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。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'

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

donuts

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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：

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。