1. 1葡萄糖

    Glucose is a simple, natural sugar. Fruit has it; so does honey; and your blood carries it as the body's main ready fuel. When someone at the clinic talks about blood sugar, they usually mean blood glucose. It is not the same thing as table sugar: the white stuff in a sugar bowl is , which the body splits into glucose and another sugar, . Plants make glucose, and we take it in with food; the body can also make it from other things if it must. In science writing you will meet it as a building-block sugar (a monosaccharide). Everyday English keeps the word for fruit, energy drinks, and medical talk.

From the word’s history

From French glucose, from Ancient Greek γλεῦκος 'wine, must'.

來自法文 glucose,源自古希臘文 γλεῦκος「新酒、葡萄汁」。

Wiktionary

組成From French glucose, from Ancient Greek gleûkos, 'sweet new wine' (must). Later chemists read it as gluco- + -ose; the sugar ending -ose in other names was taken from this word.

同家族的字

  • fructoseanother simple sugar; it carries the -ose ending that started from glucose
  • sucrosetable sugar; same -ose ending
  • glycogengluco-/glyco- 'this sugar' + -gen 'something made': the store of glucose in the body

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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。

glucosenoun/ˈɡluː.kəʊz/

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    biochemistrybiologychemistryA simple monosaccharide (sugar) with a molecular formula of C₆H₁₂O₆; a principle source of energy for cellular metabolism.

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