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A salamander is a small animal that looks a bit like a lizard, but it is not a lizard. It has a long body and a tail, and many kinds live both on land and in the water.
A salamander is a small animal that looks a bit like a lizard, but it is not a lizard是一種長得有點像蜥蜴、但其實不是蜥蜴的小動物。It has a long body and a tail牠有長長的身體和尾巴 and many kinds live both on land and in the water很多種類水陸兩棲。
Its skin is usually soft and damp, not dry and scaly like a lizard’s. You might find one under a wet log or by a stream.
Its skin is usually soft and damp牠的皮膚通常又軟又濕 not dry and scaly like a lizard's不像蜥蜴那樣乾燥、有鱗片。You might find one under a wet log or by a stream你可能會在濕木頭下面或小溪邊發現牠。
In old European stories, people said the salamander lived in fire and was not burned. That story stuck, so you will still see the word used around fire and heat in pictures and names — though actually the real animal would dry out and die in a fire.
In old European stories在古老的歐洲故事裡 people said the salamander lived in fire and was not burned人們說salamander住在火裡卻不會被燒傷。That story stuck這個故事流傳了下來 so you will still see the word used around fire and heat in pictures and names所以你還是會在跟火、跟熱有關的圖畫和名稱裡看到這個字 — though actually the real animal would dry out and die in a fire不過其實真正的這種動物在火裡只會乾死。
For the living creature, think wet, quiet, lizard-shaped, closer to a frog than to a pet lizard.
For the living creature想到真正這種活生生的動物時 think wet, quiet, lizard-shaped就想成濕濕的、安靜的、蜥蜴形狀的 closer to a frog than to a pet lizard比較接近青蛙，而不是寵物蜥蜴。
組成From Middle English salamandre, from Anglo-Norman salamandre, from Latin salamandra, from Ancient Greek σαλαμάνδρα (salamándra). Where the Greek word came from is not settled; it is probably older than Greek itself, and it may be related to Persian samandar.
原始詞典資料10 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。
salamandernoun/ˈsæləˌmændə/
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A long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, superficially resembling a lizard.
- […]and most plainly Pierius, whose words in his hieroglyphicks are these: "Whereas it is commonly said that a salamander extinguisheth fire, we have found by experience that it is so far from quenching hot coals, that it dyeth immediately therein."
- Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies.[…]The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyA creature much like a lizard that is resistant to and lives in fire (in which it is often depicted in heraldry), hence the elemental being of fire.
- “Not a chance, Ranger,” Bob Mason was speaking. “This little cuss is a salamander. He's been travelling through fire all day and there isn't a blister on him. …”
- "There is a vulgar error," says the author of the Brief Natural History, p. 91, "that a salamander lives in the fire. Yet both Galen and Dioscorides refute this opinion; and Mathiolus, in his Commentaries upon Dioscorides, a very famous physician, affirms of them, that by casting of many a salamander into the fire for tryal he found it false. The same experiment is likewise avouched by Joubertus."
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cookingfoodlifestyleA metal utensil with a flat head which is heated and put over a dish to brown the top.
- The salamander, a fairly long metal utensil with a flat rounded head, was left in the fire until red hot and then used to brown the top of a dish without further cooking.
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cookingfoodlifestyleA small broiler (North America) or grill (Britain) that heats the food from above, used in professional cookery primarily for browning.
- The chef first put the steak under the salamander to sear the outside.
- Overfired grills, or salamanders, can, in addition, be used for making toast and salamandering. They have the heat source above the food[…]. This may comprise sets of burners firing below refractory or metal frets, or surface combustion plaques.
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archaicA pouched gopher (Geomys pinetis etc.)
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obsoleteA large poker.
- Multitudes had little Tin Kettles in their Houses, with Small-coal kindled, to light their Pipes withal; though in some places they use Candles, in others Salamanders
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engineeringmetallurgynatural-sciencesSolidified material in a furnace hearth.
- Salamander tapping is done at the salamander base, which is the bottom-most level of the liquid pool in a blast furnace hearth. A high degree of precision is required to tap the salamander base effectively
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businessconstructionmanufacturingA portable stove used to heat or dry buildings under construction.
- The necessary fires alone — the salamanders and tinner's pots — had caused dozens of small blazes.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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obsoleteslangA fire-eater (performer who pretends to swallow fire).
salamanderverb/ˈsæləˌmændə/
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To use a salamander (cooking utensil) in a cooking process.
- When cold, sprinkle the custard thickly with sugar and salamander it.
- Overfired grills, or salamanders, can, in addition, be used for making toast and salamandering. They have the heat source above the food […]. This may comprise sets of burners firing below refractory or metal frets, or surface combustion plaques.
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。