肉（本義）
字面本義，整個字的出發點。
flesh eaten as food · noun · A1
The flesh of animals or birds that people eat as food.
肉
核心畫面
The core picture is animal flesh on the plate — the solid, edible, part of a creature. Almost everything else plays on one of two felt qualities of meat: it is the substantial inner stuff (vs bone/skin), and an animal either has flesh on it or doesn't.
盤子裡那塊動物的肉——一隻動物身上紮實、能吃、能養人的部分。其他用法幾乎都從肉的兩種感覺延伸出去：一是「最有料、最實…更多收起
盤子裡那塊動物的肉——一隻動物身上紮實、能吃、能養人的部分。其他用法幾乎都從肉的兩種感覺延伸出去：一是「最有料、最實在的內裡」（相對於骨頭、皮這些沒料的部分），二是一隻動物「身上有沒有肉」。From the word’s history
Old English 'mete' originally meant food in general; it narrowed over time to animal flesh specifically. The 'most important/substantial part' senses preserve an echo of the older 'the actual food, the substance' meaning.
古英語 mete 本來泛指「食物」，後來才縮小成特指「動物的肉」。那些「最重要、最實在的部分」的用法，其實還留著舊義「真正能吃的料、實質內容」的影子。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), 'meat'
Four branches
最實在的內容、精華
肉是一塊東西裡最實在、能養人的部分；借來指一場談話或一本書裡「真正有料」的核心，相對於客套和鋪陳那些「骨頭和皮」。
the core/main part · noun · A1
The most important, most basic part of something such as a discussion, decision, or job.
重點 / 核心
身上有沒有肉
把焦點從「吃的肉」移到「人身上的肉」：一個人身上肉夠不夠，用來說胖瘦。
flesh on the body · noun · A1
The flesh on someone's body, talked about when saying how thin they are.
（沒）肉
口語慣用語
幾個把「肉」當比喻的固定說法：肉是讓人想吃、吃得順口的東西，於是引申出「愛做又拿手」「容易到嘴的對手」「各人愛吃的肉不同」。
be meat and drink to someone · noun · A1
Something that someone enjoys or finds very easy because they have done it often.
拿手又愛做的事
原始詞典資料13 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。
meatnoun/miːt/
- 1
The flesh (muscle tissue) of a killed animal used as food.
- A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.
- The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter.
- 2
A food designed to replicate its taste and texture (such as plant-based meat).
- 3
A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
- The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.
- It should come as no surprise that while the peasants are expected to eat fermented fungi, lab-grown meats and maggot milkshakes, the Controligarchs — with their private chefs — have no intention of doing the same.
- 4
archaicdialectalFood, for animals or humans, especially solid food.
- meat and drink
- I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate. I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.
- 5
archaicA type of food, a dish.
- 6
archaicA meal.
- And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.
- 7
obsoleteMeal; flour.
- 8
Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
- The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.
- She took her spoon and stirred the melted butter into the yellow meat of the yam.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
- 9
vulgarslangA penis.
- He sits me on the floor (the shower is still beating down on us). He lays me down and slides his huge meat into me.
- Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day.
- 10
The best or most substantial part of something.
- […]it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.
- The editor called the new "novels" book-lengthers without the trivialities and slow development of the usual novel. "They have all the plot complications, meat and excitement that readers demand," he stated.
- 11
hobbieslifestylesportsThe sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
- He hit it right on the meat of the bat.
- 12
slangA meathead.
- Throw it in here, meat.
- 13
A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
- When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: "What meat (clan) are you?"
- Granny Sullivan was ‘dead against’ the match at first because they did not know "what my meat was and because I was a bit on the fair side."
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。