核心畫面
Start with the animal: a big silver fish that lives in the sea but fights its way up a river to lay its eggs, and whose flesh is a soft pink-orange. Everything else the word does is that same fish seen at a later stage — on the plate, or reduced to just its colour.
可以先抓住那條魚：銀亮的大魚，住在海裡，產卵時卻要逆著河水一路往上游，切開來的肉是柔和的橘粉色。這個字其他的用法，都…更多收起
可以先抓住那條魚：銀亮的大魚，住在海裡，產卵時卻要逆著河水一路往上游，切開來的肉是柔和的橘粉色。這個字其他的用法，都是同一條魚走到後面的階段——上了餐盤，或者只剩下那個顏色被留下來。原始詞典資料12 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。
Salmonname詞源 1
- 1
A surname.
- 2
A placename
Salmonname詞源 2
- 1
The father of Boaz by Rahab; the son of Nahshon (biblical figure).
salmonnoun/ˈsæmən/
- 1
biologynatural-scienceszoologyOne of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
- grilled salmon
- salmon paté
- 2
A meal or dish made from this fish.
- 3
A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
- 4
The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
- 5
slangsnout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
- Got any salmon?
- 6
canned fish, usually mackerel.
- Tinned mackerel is confusingly called ‘salmon’ in Sri Lanka. So this dish, in Sinhalese, is salmon hodi, or salmon in gravy. Now that I think on it, all tinned fish in Sri Lanka is called salmon.
- With a thick gravy made up of onions, tomatoes, spices, and coconut milk this Sri Lankan salmon curry might breathe new life to those canned mackerels on your shelf.
salmonadj/ˈsæmən/
- 1
Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
- Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.
salmonverb/ˈsæmən/
- 1
slangTo ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.
- 2014: "Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR Some cities discourage salmoning with clever signage, like this in London: "If you can read this you are biking the wrong way."
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。