喜樂美語

核心畫面

A shaker of tiny hot grains going over a plate — dozens of small dark landing all over the food, scattered everywhere rather than piled in one spot.

pepper 的核心畫面可以想成「一手拿著胡椒罐，往盤子上灑」：無數細小的黑點落下來，散得到處都是，不是堆成一坨。這…更多收起pepper 的核心畫面可以想成「一手拿著胡椒罐，往盤子上灑」：無數細小的黑點落下來，散得到處都是，不是堆成一坨。這個畫面裡有兩樣東西後來各自長大——一樣是「那個又小又嗆的東西」（胡椒、辣椒類的果實），另一樣是「灑」這個動作本身：細細碎碎、一下接一下、鋪滿整片。

Three branches

吃的：那個嗆嗆的東西

名詞這一支就是核心畫面裡「罐子裡的東西」。英文把「嗆」這個共同點看得比植物分類重，所以粉狀的胡椒和整顆的甜椒共用一個字。

spice powder · noun · A2

A powder with a hot taste that people shake onto food to make it more interesting.

胡椒粉

灑：撒滿、點綴著

動詞這一支取的是核心畫面裡的「動作」而不是「東西」：小顆粒散落、鋪滿一整片。所以只要是「這裡一點那裡一點、到處都是」的分布，就可以用 pepper。

add pepper · verb · A2

To add pepper powder to food to give it more taste.

撒胡椒粉

連發：一下接一下打過來

同樣是那把灑出去的細顆粒，但這次加上了力道和速度：不只是落在上面，而是一顆一顆打上去。「小、多、快、密」四個特徵留著，「調味」的意思沒了。

hit repeatedly · verb · A2

To hit something many times with small things, so that many marks appear on it.

密密打上

原始詞典資料16 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。

Peppername

  • 1

    A surname originating as an occupation for a seller of pepper.

peppernoun/ˈpɛp.ə/

  • 1

    A plant of the family Piperaceae.

  • 2

    A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.

  • 3

    A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to hot (spicy) varieties.

  • 4

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesA game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again

    • Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".
  • 5

    computingcryptographyengineeringA randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.

  • 6

    slangboxinggovernmenthobbiesA beating; a thrashing.

    • He means to snatch the laurels from his brow, / At all his boasted pluck and prowess smile, / And give him pepper in superior style.
    • [T]he Chicken had been tapped, and bunged, and had received pepper, and had been made groggy, and had come up piping, and had endured a complication of similar strange inconveniences, until he had been gone into and finished.
  • 7

    slangA shotgun.

    • Chew beef like breakfast (Yum) Two shanks, get 'round in seconds (Two) Be feeding my area, peppers
    • Number plates already hot, and plus we've got like three peppers

pepperverb/ˈpɛp.ə/

  • 1

    To add pepper to.

  • 2

    To strike with something made up of small particles.

  • 3

    To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).

    • After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.
  • 4

    To add (something) at frequent intervals.

    • He liked to pepper long words throughout his conversation.
  • 5

    slangTo beat or thrash.

    • I am pepperd for this world, I am sped yfaith, he hath made wormes meate of me
  • 6

    computingcryptographyengineeringTo use a pepper (type of value used prior to hashing).

  • 7

    slangTo shoot (upon) with the dotty.

  • 8

    slangTo write accents or disambiguating marks in script.

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。