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.

Glucose is a simple, natural sugarglucose是一種單純的天然糖。Fruit has it水果裡有它; so does honey蜂蜜裡也有; and your blood carries it as the body's main ready fuel而你的血液會帶著它，是身體最主要的即用燃料。When someone at the clinic talks about blood sugar當診所裡有人提到blood sugar（血糖）, they usually mean blood glucose他們通常指的就是blood glucose。

It is not the same thing as table sugar: the white stuff in a sugar bowl is sucrose, which the body splits into glucose and another sugar, fructose. Plants make glucose, and we take it in with food; the body can also make it from other things if it must.

It is not the same thing as table sugar它跟table sugar（一般食用糖）不是同一樣東西：the white stuff in a sugar bowl is sucrose糖罐裡的白色顆粒是sucrose（蔗糖）, which the body splits into glucose and another sugar, fructose身體會把它分解成glucose和另一種糖fructose（果糖）。Plants make glucose植物會自己製造glucose, and we take it in with food而我們則透過食物攝取它；the body can also make it from other things if it must身體如果必要，也能從其他東西製造出glucose。

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.

In science writing在科學寫作裡 you will meet it as a building-block sugar你會看到它被稱為building-block sugar (a monosaccharide單醣monosaccharide)。Everyday English keeps the word日常英語仍然會用這個字 for fruit, energy drinks, and medical talk來講水果、能量飲料和醫療相關的話題。