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/ɜːrb/ · /hɜːb/
A small plant whose leaves or seeds are used to give food a better taste, or to make medicine.
香草；藥草
複數 herbs
核心畫面
Picture a small leafy plant on a kitchen — basil, mint, rosemary. You pick a few leaves, drop them in the pot, and the taste of the whole dish changes. Dry the same leaves and grind them, and they go into medicine instead.
可以想成：廚房窗邊那盆矮矮的葉子植物——羅勒、薄荷、迷迭香。它不是拿來當主菜吃的，你只摘幾片丟進鍋裡，整鍋的味道就變…更多收起
可以想成：廚房窗邊那盆矮矮的葉子植物——羅勒、薄荷、迷迭香。它不是拿來當主菜吃的，你只摘幾片丟進鍋裡，整鍋的味道就變了；同一批葉子曬乾、磨碎，換個場合就成了藥材。所以 herb 這個字的畫面比較像「一株用葉子或種子來調味或治病的小草本植物」，份量很少，作用卻很明顯。原始詞典資料7 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。
Herbname/hɜː(ɹ)b/
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A diminutive of the male given name Herbert.
- Herb and Greta poured through “name” books and the only name they could agree on was “Rosalie.” Greta told Herb that she didn't want her daughter's name to end in a “lie,” and so they named her Rosalee.
herbnoun/hɜːb/
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesA plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season.
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archaicGrass; herbage.
- flocks grazing the tender herb
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Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food.
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A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.
- If any medicinal herbs used by witches were supposedly evil, then how come people from at least the past benefited from the healing properties of such herbs?
- For twenty-five years he has done all sorts of odd jobs: digging ginseng (a herb) in the Long White Mountains, fishing in the Black River, and washing gold dust at Hailanpao. Without this education, he would never have become an undaunted revolutionary.
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slangCannabis.
- The room was thick and sour with the smell of herb.
- You think he's got any herb?
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slang(always with pronounced /h/) A lame or uncool person.
- George (AO) describes the tie between fighting and respect: 'Cause some people could come up to you and say, “Ah, he's a herb, he can't fight. He's nothing.”
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。