Picture something that has been sitting in liquid long enough for the liquid to be all the way through it. A that went into the jar green and crisp comes out sharp and salty, and it will keep for months. The thing is not just wet on the outside; it has been changed right through. English then lifts that same picture and lays it, as a joke, on a person who has had far too much to drink.
Two branches
泡在醋或鹽水裡的食物
這一支就是畫面本身，沒有轉過彎：食物真的泡在罐子裡。
adjective · B1
Food that has been kept in vinegar or in salty water so that it lasts a long time and takes on a sharp, salty taste. It is said most about vegetables and fruit, but also about fish, eggs and meat treated the same way.
醃漬的
被酒浸透的人（老式玩笑話）
把「被液體浸透」的畫面搬到人身上，當成玩笑。這是幫助理解的連結，不是在說歷史上真的由前一個意思生出後一個意思。
adjective · C1
Drunk. This is an old-fashioned, joking way of saying that someone has had far too much alcohol, and you meet it in older books and films much more than in speech today.
喝醉的
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。
pickledadj
Preserved by pickling.
slangDrunk.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。