核心畫面

Picture the particular taste that arrives when you bite into something — not sweet or salty in general, but the specific character of it: this is strawberry, this is smoke, this is home cooking. Flavour is that character. Once you have the idea of a character you can taste, English extends it to places, stories and moods, which have a character you can sense in the same way.

可以想成:咬下去的那一瞬間浮出來的那個味道——不是籠統的甜或鹹,而是它專屬的性格:這是草莓、這是煙燻、這是家常菜的味更多收起可以想成:咬下去的那一瞬間浮出來的那個味道——不是籠統的甜或鹹,而是它專屬的性格:這是草莓、這是煙燻、這是家常菜的味道。flavour 講的就是這份「性格」。而一旦有了「可以嚐到的性格」這個想法,英文自然把它推到地方、故事、氛圍上——那些東西同樣有一種可以感覺到的味道。

Two branches

食物的味道

核心那一面:舌頭嚐得到的味道,以及讓味道出現的東西。

taste, flavor type · noun · B1

the special taste that a food or drink has, often named by a kind (like chocolate or strawberry).

口味

事物給人的那股味道

把「可以嚐到的性格」搬到非食物上:一個地方、一個故事也有它的味道。

distinctive style, feel · noun · B1

a quality that gives a place, story, or event a special style or feel.

風味;特色

原始詞典資料2 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。

flavournoun

  • 1

    British standard spelling of flavor.

    • The flavour of this apple pie is delicious.
    • Flavour was added to the pudding.

flavourverb

  • 1

    British standard spelling of flavor.

    • Food writer Annie Bell goes in the opposite direction in her gorgeous Christmas book, presenting "an homage to nut roast" in the form of a large, flat cake of blanched spinach, flavoured with thyme and lemon juice, filled with goat's cheese, and topped with toasted breadcrumbs.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。