喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture something solid that the earth made on its own — salt, coal, iron, gold — no plant and no animal involved. That is the test the word applies: it grew in the ground, not in a living thing. The same substances turn up on a food label, because your body needs some of them too.

可以想成：地球自己長出來的固體東西——鹽、煤、鐵、金，過程中沒有植物也沒有動物參與。這就是這個字的判準：它從地底來，…更多收起可以想成：地球自己長出來的固體東西——鹽、煤、鐵、金，過程中沒有植物也沒有動物參與。這就是這個字的判準：它從地底來，不是活的東西產生的。有趣的是同樣這些東西也會出現在食品標示上，因為人體也需要其中幾種，那時候中文就叫「礦物質」。

原始詞典資料10 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。

Mineralname

  • 1

    A number of places in the United States, including:

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    A number of places in the United States, including:

mineralnoun/ˈmɪn.ə.ɹəl/

  • 1

    geographygeologynatural-sciencesAny naturally occurring solid material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties; especially, an inorganic and crystalline one.

    • The physiology of matter in the abstract is dynamical, that of mineral species is both dynamical and chemical, while that of organized forms is at once dynamical, chemical, and biotical.
    • Formation of alteration minerals in the host rock during deformation within the shear zone is indicated by the parallel foliation within the secondary micaceous minerals and the unmineralized host schist.
  • 2

    Any inorganic material (as distinguished from animal or vegetable).

  • 3

    Any inorganic element that is essential to nutrition.

  • 4

    Mineral water.

  • 5

    informalA soft drink, particularly a single serve bottle or can.

  • 6

    obsoleteA mine or mineral deposit.

    • O'er whom his very madness, like some ore / Among a mineral of metals base, / Shows itself pure;
  • 7

    obsoleteA poisonous or dangerous substance.

    • ...Thou hast... / Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals[…]

mineraladj/ˈmɪn.ə.ɹəl/

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    of, related to, or containing minerals

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。