同一種食物，兩種看法
兩個意思指的是同一樣東西，差別只在把它看成材料還是看成一份。
noun · A1
A sweet frozen food made from milk, cream and sugar, often with fruit, nuts, chocolate or other flavours mixed into it.
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Picture cream and sugar frozen until they are soft and smooth enough to scoop. That is the whole word: a cold sweet substance sitting in a tub. English then looks at it in two ways. Look at the substance and it cannot be counted, so you measure it — some, a little, a tub, two scoops. Look at one helping handed to one person, in a cone or on a stick, and it becomes a thing you can count: an ice cream, three ice creams. Nothing about the food changes; only the way the speaker frames it.
可以想成奶油和糖被凍到又軟又滑、剛好可以挖起來的樣子。整個字就是這個畫面：一桶冰冰甜甜的東西。接下來英文用兩種角度看…更多收起
可以想成奶油和糖被凍到又軟又滑、剛好可以挖起來的樣子。整個字就是這個畫面：一桶冰冰甜甜的東西。接下來英文用兩種角度看它。看「這種材料」時不能算，只能量：some、a little、a tub、two scoops。看「遞到一個人手上的那一份」時——甜筒、紙杯或一支冰棒——它就變成可以算的東西：an ice cream、three ice creams。食物沒有變，變的是說話的人怎麼看它。From the word’s history
From iced cream, with the -d lost before the following consonant cluster; by surface analysis iced + cream.
來源說 ice cream 是 iced cream 唸快之後定型的：-d 在後面的子音前被吃掉，就變成今天的寫法。所以這個名字本來在描述做法——把奶油弄冰——正好對上上面那個畫面：先有那桶凍起來的甜奶油，之後才有「一份」的算法。
Wiktionary entry for ice cream, supplied in packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:354361337:75155)
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