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Picture a big piece of meat in a hot oven, or a chicken turning over an open fire. Nothing is boiling in water and nothing is swimming in oil — the food just sits in dry, all-round heat until the outside browns and the inside cooks through. That dry, surrounding heat is the picture the whole word grows out of.
可以想成：一大塊肉放進熱烤箱，或一隻雞架在火上慢慢轉。沒有下水煮，也沒有下油炸，食物就在乾的、從四面包過來的高熱裡待…更多收起
可以想成：一大塊肉放進熱烤箱，或一隻雞架在火上慢慢轉。沒有下水煮，也沒有下油炸，食物就在乾的、從四面包過來的高熱裡待著，外層慢慢變褐、香氣出來，裡面也熟透。這種「乾熱、包圍、慢慢上色」的畫面，是 roast 各種用法長出來的地方——從烤肉、烘咖啡豆，一路到那個把人放在眾人目光下「烤」一番的場合。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。
roastverb/ɹoʊst/
- 1
To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
- to roast meat on a spit
- 2
To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
- to roast a potato in ashes
- In eggs boiled and roasted […]there is scarce difference to be discerned.
- 3
To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
- Coffee beans need roasting before use.
- to roast chestnuts or peanuts
- 4
To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
- roasted in wrath and fire
- 5
To admonish someone vigorously.
- I'm late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.
- 6
To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
- He roasted a bully who then fought with him.
- The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff.
- 7
artscraftsengineeringTo dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.
roastnoun/ɹoʊst/
- 1
A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
- Near-synonym: joint
- Serve the roast with gravy and mashed potatoes.
- 2
A meal consisting of roast foods.
- Come over this weekend for Sunday roast.
- 3
The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
- Dark roast means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and for a longer period of time than in light roast.
- 4
An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.
- “He ain’t no good!” With this she steps back to the table where Miss Montague has just tired of the Cuban, slips her arms about that seraph’s waist, and says: “Your Frank is in Washington and my Jasper has just given me a roast. Reckon we’ll both have to be bachelor girls to-night.”
- 5
A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
- 6
A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.
- On Memorial Day we hosted a wiener roast in the backyard.
- 7
slangA creative insult as a response to something someone said.
roastadj/ɹoʊst/
- 1
Having been cooked by roasting.
- 2
Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized.
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。