- 1肉豆蔻（粉）
Nutmeg is a warm brown spice. It begins as the hard seed of a tree that grows in hot countries. People dry that seed, then grate it or grind it into a fine powder — and that powder is what most of us mean in the kitchen. The smell arrives before the taste: a little sweet, a little woody, the kind of scent that belongs to milk desserts, pumpkin pie, white sauce, and a winter drink with a dusting on top. A pinch is plenty; cooks treat it like a strong perfume, not like sugar. The whole dried seed is also called nutmeg before anyone grinds it. Though actually, the bright red lace that wraps the seed is a different spice, mace — same fruit, not the same jar. The English name is an old partial translation of a Latin phrase meaning “musky nut”: the nut half is real English, the second half came through medieval Latin and French. It is named like a nut, but it is a seed, not an almond or a peanut. One more loose use, outside the kitchen: in football, to nutmeg someone is to put the ball between their legs. Same spelling, a joke with the spice, not a new flavour.
組成From Middle English notemege, notemuge, a partial translation of Medieval Latin nux muga, a variant of nux muscata (“musky nut”). Compare Old French nois mugede. The first half translates Latin nux as English nut; the second half is the “musky” piece, not a modern English word on its own.
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- nutthe nut- in nutmeg is a translation of Latin nux, “nut”; the spice was named as a musky nut
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
nutmegnoun/ˈnʌt.mɛɡ/
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An evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds.
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The aromatic seed of this tree, used as a spice.
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The aromatic seed of this tree, used as a spice.
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A small moth, Hadula trifolii, feeding on plants and native to the Northern Hemisphere.
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A grey-brown colour.
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ball-gamesbasketballgamesThe playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent.
- The same applied to Loftus-Cheek, who grew into the game after a quiet start and even had the impudence to slip the ball through Marcel Halstenberg’s legs in the first half. Nutmegs aside, Loftus-Cheek also came up with one of England’s best passes of the night, sending Jamie Vardy through the middle at the end of the first half.
nutmegverb/ˈnʌt.mɛɡ/
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To flavour with nutmeg.
- She decided the eggnog was lacking in flavor, so she decided to nutmeg it heavily.
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hobbieslifestylesportsTo play the ball between the legs of (an opponent).
- Barcelona did not just out play them, they emphatically put them in their place during that opening 45 minutes when Luis Suárez scored twice, Dani Alves struck the crossbar, Lionel Messi nutmegged David Silva and Manuel Pellegrini’s team stumbled to the interval like a side in need of smelling salts rather than half-time oranges.
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