Fries are long, thin pieces of potato cooked in hot oil until they are crisp outside and soft inside.

friesfries（薯條） are long, thin pieces of potato是長長細細的馬鈴薯條，cooked in hot oil用熱油炸過 until they are crisp outside and soft inside炸到外酥內軟。

In American English this is the usual word; people also say French fries. In British English people more often say chips for the same hot sticks, and those chips are often thicker.

in American English this is the usual word在美式英文裡這是常用的說法，people also say French fries人們也會說 French fries。in British English people more often say chips for the same hot sticks在英式英文裡，人們比較常把同樣熱熱的長條叫做 chips，and those chips are often thicker而且那些 chips 通常比較粗。

The word is almost always plural: we order fries, not fry, though one stick can be called a fry.

the word is almost always plural這個字幾乎都是用複數：we order fries, not fry我們點餐會說 fries，不會說 fry，though one stick can be called a fry不過單獨一根可以叫做 a fry。

It is an informal food word — menus, snack bars, “Do you want fries with that?” Nothing here is about a town or a family name Fries (that look-alike comes from a mill owner, Francis Henry Fries, with a surname mixed from Friesland and French friche, “fallow land”). This entry is only the potatoes.

it is an informal food word這是一個不正式的食物用字——menus, snack bars, "Do you want fries with that?"菜單、小吃店、「Do you want fries with that?」。nothing here is about a town or a family name Fries這裡跟某個城鎮或姓氏 Fries 都沒有關係（that look-alike comes from a mill owner, Francis Henry Fries, with a surname mixed from Friesland and French friche, "fallow land"那個長得很像的字來自一位磨坊主人 Francis Henry Fries，他的姓是 Friesland 跟法文 friche「休耕地」混出來的）。this entry is only the potatoes這個詞條只講馬鈴薯這個意思。