- 1仿製的；劣質替代的
Ersatz means “the stand-in, and not as good as the real thing”. English borrowed it from German, where Ersatz is a plain word for a replacement. English loaded it with a . Wartime ersatz coffee made from grain. An ersatz version of a famous bag. An ersatz smile that does not reach the eyes. It is a grown-up, slightly adjective; people use it when they want to sound sharp about a fake or a cheap copy. A spare house key is not ersatz — it is a real key that does the same job. Ersatz is for the thing that is trying to pass, and failing a little. Though actually, the German word itself is neutral; the “inferior” colour is what English added.
組成Borrowed from German Ersatz, “a replacement”, a back-formation from ersetzen, “to replace / to put in the place of”.
原始詞典資料2 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。
ersatzadj/ˈɛəzæts/
- 1
An inauthentic or inadequate substitute or imitation.
- Back then, we could only get ersatz coffee.
- In these days of “rolled” gold, electro-plate, and undetectable pearls, it is curious that almost the only honest Ersatz material known to the goldsmith's art should be utterly forgotten.
ersatznoun/ˈɛəzæts/
- 1
Something made in imitation; an effigy or substitute.
- The important point I want to emphasize here is that, regardless of a Government agency's conception of what a consumer expects of a food item, by and large the consumer detests the use of chemicals in foods as substitutes for nutritious, wholesome natural ingredients which improve flavor and quality. The consumer has little to gain in purchasing a product containing questionable ersatzes if his life is to be endangered or he will suffer ill effects.
- What intrigues us is what will happen when the ersatzes for the ersatzes come along. Will characters start substituting for actors, bona fide dogs for barking ladies; will people start looking at people again instead of television and at nature instead of at documentaries?
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。