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A rutabaga is a large, round vegetable that grows under the ground. The inside is usually yellow, and the taste is a little sweet, denser than a small white . People mash it, roast it, or put it in winter soup. Though actually, the tidy picture — “a kind of ” — is a bit loose: it is its own plant, bigger and yellower than the most first meet. In the United States and Canada the everyday name is rutabaga. In Britain and Ireland the same vegetable is almost always called a (from “Swedish ”). You will not see it on every stall in Taiwan; it is a cold-country crop. Shop signs in English-speaking countries often mix the two names, but they are pointing at one food.
蕪菁甘藍(英國人多叫 swede;不是台灣的大頭菜)
組成Borrowed in 1799 from Swedish rotabagge, a dialect word from Västergötland: rot “root” + bagge “lump, bunch”.
原始詞典資料2 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。
rutabaganoun/ˈɹutəˌbeɪɡə/
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The swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus var. napobrassica
- They were both too hungry to wait for the yams and rutabagas to bake, so tonight they would have the frozen White Castle minicheeseburgers that Mr. Van Buren had won a year's supply of just before he passed away.
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The edible root of this plant
- Sometimes your royal dogs tear down our thatch, And then we seek the shelter of a ditch; Hog-wash or grains, or ruta-baga, none Has yet been ours since your reign begun.
- Chipper […] understood how his entire dinner might be scarfabl' in no time, his duties discharged and his freedom regained, and he actually picked up his fork and made a pass at the craggy wad of rutabaga […]
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。