核心畫面
Picture several different things put together in one place — and the point of the word is that you can still tell they are different. A mixture is not one smooth new thing; it is a set of parts sitting together, sometimes stirred, sometimes just found side by side. From that you get everything from a bowl of cake batter to a crowd of very different people to what a science teacher means when she says salt and sand make a mixture, not a compound.
可以想成好幾種不一樣的東西被放進同一個地方——而這個字的重點在於：你還看得出它們是不一樣的東西。mixture 不是…更多收起
可以想成好幾種不一樣的東西被放進同一個地方——而這個字的重點在於：你還看得出它們是不一樣的東西。mixture 不是變成了一個嶄新的整體，而是一堆各自的成分待在一起，有時被攪過，有時只是剛好並排在那裡。從這個畫面出發，一碗調好的蛋糕糊、一群性格差很多的人、還有理化老師說的「鹽和沙是混合物，不是化合物」，用的都是同一個字。原始詞典資料7 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。
mixturenoun/ˈmɪkstʃə/
- 1
The act of mixing.
- The mixture of sulphuric acid and water produces heat.
- 2
Something produced by mixing.
- An alloy is a mixture of two metals.
- 3
Something that consists of diverse elements.
- The day was a mixture of sunshine and showers.
- 4
A medicinal compound, typically a suspension of a solid in a solution
- A teaspoonful of the mixture to be taken three times daily after meals
- 5
entertainmentlifestylemusicA compound organ stop.
- 6
A cloth of variegated colouring.
- 7
A mix of different dry foods as a snack, especially chevda or Bombay mix.
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。