喜樂美語

核心畫面

A round of batter poured into a flat pan and cooked until it is a thin, flat, even disc. The two things that carry the whole word are its shape (flat and smooth, spread evenly over a surface) and the fact that it is a layer laid down on something.

麵糊倒進平底鍋，攤開來，煎成一片又薄又平、表面均勻的圓餅。這個字真正帶著走的有兩件事——一是形狀（薄、平、鋪得很勻）…更多收起麵糊倒進平底鍋，攤開來，煎成一片又薄又平、表面均勻的圓餅。這個字真正帶著走的有兩件事——一是形狀（薄、平、鋪得很勻），二是「一層東西攤在某個面上」這個動作。記住這兩點，就能理解為什麼一個吃的東西可以拿去講化妝品。

Two branches

鍋裡那片薄餅

這一族就是字面本身：pan（平底鍋）加 cake（餅），最具體、最常用的畫面。

pancake · noun · A2

a thin, flat, round cake made from flour, milk, and eggs, cooked in a flat pan and eaten while it is still hot.

薄煎餅；鬆餅

攤在臉上的那一層

借的不是「食物」而是「形狀」：一樣是厚厚一層平平地攤在一個表面上，只是表面從鍋子換成了人的臉。

pancake makeup · noun · C1

very thick make-up that you put on your face, worn especially by actors on stage or in front of a camera.

厚粉底（演員用）

原始詞典資料14 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。

Pancakename

  • 1

    A surname.

pancakenoun/ˈpæn.keɪk/

  • 1

    A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:

  • 2

    A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:

    • Mrs. America is holding a plate of pancakes in one hand and a fork with a slice of pancake in the other.
  • 3

    entertainmentlifestyletheaterA kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.

    • And us, me wearing pancake with my eyebrows recently plucked archly, done by Little Amber, the beauty-school student quean, in Bryant Park.
  • 4

    artshobbiesjugglingA type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.

    • have been working on pancake throws with rings for the past few months and I have been trying to make the throws perfectly spun and as consistent as possible.
  • 5

    Anything very thin and flat.

    • pancake lens
    • Most of the electrons would pass through the hadron pancake with no interaction, but a few would collide […]
  • 6

    Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.

    • &hellip in the poorer grades the heel is made of scrap leather and leather board or pulp, finished with a solid leather top lift. The composite material, called pancake, is made by an operative, usually a girl, called a pancake-maker; it is used sometimes for soles as well as heels.
  • 7

    slangbroadcastingfilmmediaA box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.

  • 8

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesA defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.

另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    datedslangAn attractive young woman.

    • Damon Runyon, The Brakeman's Daughter 'To tell the truth,' The Humming Bird says, 'I neglect these details, because,' he says, 'I am already dated up to go out with Big False Face to-night to call on a doll who is daffy to meet me. Otherwise,' he says, 'I will undoubtedly make arrangements to see more of this pancake I just save from rack and ruin.'

pancakeverb/ˈpæn.keɪk/

  • 1

    To make a pancake landing.

  • 2

    businessconstructionmanufacturingTo collapse one floor after another.

  • 3

    To flatten violently.

    • Poor old Sleepy suffered from an on-duty head injury he'd got by chasing a Corvette on a police motorcycle, ending up like a pancaked roadkill with half his scalp flapping in the backwash of freeway commuters[…]
  • 4

    To lie out flat, like a pancake; sploot.

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。