- 1肉汁（肉汁醬）
Gravy is the brown, salty sauce you pour on meat, potatoes, or rice — it's usually made from the juices that come out of meat while it cooks, mixed with a little flour to make it thick. In Britain, a big meal isn't really finished without gravy on the plate. There's also a saying, 'gravy train,' for an easy way to make money without working very hard for it — like extra money on top of your normal pay, the way gravy sits on top of your dinner.
From the word’s history
From Middle English gravey; probably from greaves, or from Old French grane, a claimed misspelling of grané 'stew'.
源自中古英文 gravey；有一說是古法文 grané「燉菜」被抄錯了。
組成No one is completely sure where this word came from. Many word historians think it may have started as a copying mistake — an old French cookery word was written down wrong by hand, and the wrong spelling stuck.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
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。
gravynoun/ˈɡɹeɪvi/
- 1
A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
- A roast dinner isn't complete without gravy.
- 2
A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
- There are few foods more Southern than biscuits and gravy.
- 3
Sauce used for pasta.
- 4
Curry sauce.
- With this the hostess poured two or three spoonfuls of the gravy of the curry on to the rice opposite to each person.
- Now it seems that Pa Senik was a little deaf. Awang noticed that his father-in-law sometimes poured the gravy of his curry on his rice and that sometimes he sucked it up.
- 5
informalUnearned gain; extra benefit.
- The first thousand tickets and the concessions cover the venue and the band. The rest is gravy.
gravyverb/ˈɡɹeɪvi/
- 1
To make gravy.
- I mean simply this — that the process of canning and preserving or of gravying and saucing frequently removes the most vitally essential acids and salts […]
- Dola and another woman were so busy frying and grilling and buttering and gravying that they didn't even notice Bruce's existence.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。