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Ginseng is a plant whose slow-grown root is used as a tonic — a kind of medicine or health food that some people believe helps energy, stress, and staying well as they get older. You can buy the dried root, slices, tea, capsules, or chicken soup made with it.
Ginseng is a plant whose slow-grown root is used as a tonicginseng是一種植物，它慢慢長成的根被拿來當補品 — a kind of medicine or health food that some people believe helps energy, stress, and staying well as they get older是一種有些人相信能幫助元氣、抒壓、還有年紀大了以後保持健康的藥材或保健食品。 You can buy the dried root, slices, tea, capsules, or chicken soup made with it你可以買到乾燥的根、切片、茶、膠囊，或是用它煮的雞湯
In English it covers several related plants: Asian ginseng, Korean ginseng, and American ginseng are the famous ones, and they are not treated as exactly the same. It is a real plant and a real trade; whether it “keeps you young” is what people hope, not what every doctor would promise.
In English it covers several related plants在英文裡它涵蓋好幾種相關的植物: Asian ginseng, Korean ginseng, and American ginseng are the famous onesAsian ginseng（亞洲蔘）、Korean ginseng（高麗蔘）、American ginseng（花旗蔘）是最有名的幾種, and they are not treated as exactly the same這幾種並不會被當成完全一樣的東西。 It is a real plant and a real trade它是真實存在的植物，也是真實存在的產業; whether it "keeps you young" is what people hope, not what every doctor would promise至於它能不能「讓人年輕」，那是大家的期望，並不是每個醫生都會掛保證的事
The word is ordinary in shops and Chinese medicine, a bit specialist elsewhere.
The word is ordinary in shops and Chinese medicine這個字在店裡和中醫裡是很普通的用語, a bit specialist elsewhere在別的地方就顯得比較專業、有點少見
組成The English word does not split. It was borrowed from Hokkien 人參 (jîn-sim). Ninzin is a doublet of the same origin, but it is not a word English speakers use.
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。
ginsengnoun/ˈd͡ʒɪnsɛŋ/
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Any plant of two species of the genus Panax (Panax ginseng and Panax quinquefolius), having forked roots supposed to have medicinal and aphrodisiac properties.
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The root of such a plant, or an extract of these roots.
- When the Afghan princes find it necessary to employ Chob-Chini, (the Jin-seng, or China root so celebrated as a purifier, tonic, and aphrodisiac) they choose the spring season.
- Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
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。