核心畫面

You can picture an ingredient as one of the things that went into the bowl: on its own it is just flour, or an egg, but once everything is mixed you cannot see it any more — you only taste the result. The word always looks at a finished whole and names one of the parts that had to go in to make it.

可以想成 ingredient 是「當初丟進碗裡的其中一樣」:單獨看只是麵粉、一顆蛋,可是攪一攪之後你就看不到它了,更多收起可以想成 ingredient 是「當初丟進碗裡的其中一樣」:單獨看只是麵粉、一顆蛋,可是攪一攪之後你就看不到它了,只嚐得到成品。這個字永遠是站在成品這邊往回看,指出「要做成這個,這一樣非放不可」。

Two branches

放進去的那些東西

看得見、摸得到的那一邊:真的有東西被放進成品裡。

food ingredient · noun · B1

one of the foods you put in when you make a dish or a meal.

食材;材料

成功需要的要素(比喻)

把食譜的畫面整個借去講抽象的事:一件事要成,也像一道菜一樣有它的配方,少了某一樣就做不出來。

success factor · noun · B1

a quality or thing you need if you want to succeed at something.

要素;因素

原始詞典資料2 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。

ingredientnoun/ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/

  • 1

    One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.

    • Holonyms: mixture; whole
    • Near-synonyms: constituent, component
  • 2

    A necessary element to achieve a certain goal; a component.

    • Holonym: end result
    • Innovation is just one ingredient for continued growth.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。