核心畫面

Picture the small white grains in the bowl — that is where English puts the weight of this word. The plant standing in the flooded field is named after the food, not the other way round, which is why the same word covers both and why neither takes a plural.

可以想成:碗裡那些白白小小的顆粒——英文這個字的重心就放在這裡。田裡那株植物是跟著食物被叫成同一個名字的,而不是反過更多收起可以想成:碗裡那些白白小小的顆粒——英文這個字的重心就放在這裡。田裡那株植物是跟著食物被叫成同一個名字的,而不是反過來。中文分得很細(米、飯、稻),英文卻一律用 rice,要靠上下文或前面加字來分辨,這是台灣學習者最常卡住的一點。

原始詞典資料26 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。

Ricename/ɹaɪs/

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    A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].

    • This past weekend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach set off a firestorm with his full-page ad in the New York Times accusing National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice of turning a blind eye to the Rwandan genocide when she was on President Bill Clinton’s national security team in the 1990s.
    • For a micromoon and Friday the 13th full moon to occur together is extraordinarily rare. The last time it happened was in 1832 and it won't happen again for more than 500 years according to Tony Rice, a meteorologist and engineer at NASA.
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ricenoun詞源 1/ɹaɪs/

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    Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.

    • Rice is a tropical plant; yet Carolina and Georgia grow the finest in the world; heavier grained, better filled, and more merchantable, than any imported into Europe from the Indies.
    • Drought stress causes yield reductions and sometimes total crop failures in rainfed rice areas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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    A specific variety of this plant.

    • The rices of Kashmír are infinite in variety. In one tahsíl I have found fifty-three varieties.
    • First, we have the Italian rices; secondly, the rices of the French colonies of Indo-China and Madagascar, which are beginning to cultivate rices of very fine quality, altogether superior to those that were cultivated only a few years back.
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    The seeds of this plant used as food.

    • Mold boiled rice, when hot, in cups which have been previously dipped in cold water; when cold, turn them out on a flat dish, arranging them uniformly; then with a tea-spoon scoop out a little of the rice from the top of each cone, and put in its place any kind of jelly.
    • In Britain too rice is reputed to increase the sexual faculties.
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    The seeds of this plant used as food.

    • We shoot bows and arrows. We hunt, fish, paddle canoes, have war dances, ride horses, run, jump, gather rice, gather berries, throw spears, rock cradles, worship the Great Spirit, grind corn, have council meetings, and perform dozens of other activities that Indians do.
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    slurslangThe types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.

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    slangcomputingengineeringmathematicsAn instance of customization of a user interface.

    • This is my first rice!

riceverb詞源 1/ɹaɪs/

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    To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).

    • Riced Potato. Have a flat dish and the colander hot. With a spoon, rub mashed potato through the colander on to the hot dish.
    • Following ricing, the potato mash proceeds to the drum drier where flaking is done.
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    To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)

    • In northern Minnesota the whites have invented the verb "to rice," and speak of "ricing," i. e., harvesting the crop of wild rice.
    • When ricing, the Ojibway dress warmly at first; by midday they may shed some clothes as harvest toil combines with the hot sun of late summer to warm them.
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    rareTo throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).

    • So far as I can make out, the idiotic function of “ricing” English brides and bridegrooms is not twenty years old.
    • The couple was well riced and sent on their way.
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    computingengineeringmathematicsTo customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. (derived from rice out)

ricenoun詞源 2/ɹaɪs/

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    dialectalA twig or stick.

    • To guard the bank from the impression of the water, a fence, OF STAKE AND RICE, may be made along the bottom of it next the sea, which will last till the surface on that side is sufficiently swarded, and the mound properly consolidated.
    • Another form of dead-hedge is the stake-and-rice, and it is formed of the branches of forest trees; and where these are plentiful and thorns scarce, it is an economical dead fence.
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    obsoletebusinessmanufacturingtextilesA bobbin or spool.

    • […] taken unlawfully from the same house five "machines called 'Engine-Weaving Loomes' worth thirty pounds, and two ounces of silke worth five shillings, and two joynt-stooles worth three shillings, and a pair of 'Rices to wind silke on' worth four shillings […]
    • The hanks are placed upon light, collapsible hexagon reels termed rices, which are easily lifted out of their position for the reception of the hank.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。