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A meringue is a very light sweet made from egg white and sugar. You beat the clear part of the egg until it stands up in peaks, fold in a lot of sugar, and bake the foam slowly so it dries. It can come out crisp, , or soft, depending on the heat and the time. Cooks pile it on lemon pie, bake little meringue kisses, or make a big with fruit on top. It is home cooking and pastry-shop cooking; the word feels a bit French, which it is. You may also hear it used as a verb, meaning to cover a pudding with that foam and brown it, but the thing itself is the food.
蛋白霜（甜點；店家有時叫「馬林」）
組成Borrowed from French meringue. People used to say it was invented in, and named for, the Swiss village of Meiringen; though actually that is now thought to be a folk story. The French word is instead traced to Middle Dutch meringue, “a light evening meal”, of unclear origin — perhaps Latin merenda (also a light evening meal), perhaps a Dutch verb for dipping bread; scholars do not agree, so the trail stops there.
原始詞典資料3 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。
meringuenoun/məˈɹæŋ/
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A mixture consisting of beaten egg whites and sugar which is added to the tops of pies then browned.
- The key to a good baked Alaska is the meringue topping.
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A shell made of this mixture which serves as the receptacle for fruit, ice cream or sherbet.
- Shirley likes to have strawberry with her meringue.
- It had the same laxness in texture that all organic structures seem to have upon the moon; it tasted rather like a gauffre or a damp meringue, but in no way was it disagreeable.
meringueverb/məˈɹæŋ/
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cookingfoodlifestyleTo prepare as a meringue dish.
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。