核心畫面
You can picture salt as the white grains you on food to make it taste better and to keep it from going bad. From that one everyday substance grow the verb (to add salt), the adjective (preserved with salt / salty), and a few sayings built on salt's value and its bite.
可以想成你撒在食物上、讓味道變好、又能讓食物不容易壞掉的那一粒粒白色顆粒。從這一樣日常的東西，長出了動詞（加鹽）、形…更多收起
可以想成你撒在食物上、讓味道變好、又能讓食物不容易壞掉的那一粒粒白色顆粒。從這一樣日常的東西，長出了動詞（加鹽）、形容詞（用鹽醃的、含鹽的），以及幾個建立在「鹽很珍貴、鹽有股勁」之上的說法。原始詞典資料39 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。
Saltname
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A village in Salt and Enson parish, Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9527).
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A surname.
saltnoun詞源 1/sɒlt/
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A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.
- Near-synonyms: table salt, rock salt, road salt
- Take gode almaunde mylke y-draw wyth wyn, an let hem boyle to-gederys, an caste þer-to Safroun an Salt; […]
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chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesOne of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
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A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
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slangA sailor (also old salt).
- Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts.
- I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.
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computingcryptographyengineeringA sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.
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A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
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obsoleteFlavour; taste; seasoning.
- Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen […] we have some salt of our youth in us.
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obsoletePiquancy; wit; sense.
- Attic salt
另外 5 個記錄的用法
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obsoleteA dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
- I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts.
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historicalEpsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
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Skepticism and common sense.
- Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.
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Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
- There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.
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historicalThe money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
saltadj詞源 1/sɒlt/
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Of water: containing salt, saline.
- Why the Sea is Salt
- After a few days of north-west wind, the waters of the Gordon will be found salt for twelve miles up from the bar.
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Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.
- salt beef
- Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm.
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Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.
- a salt marsh
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Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.
- salt grass
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Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
- a salt mine
- The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
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obsoleteBitter; sharp; pungent.
- I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me […].
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obsoleteSalacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
- It is impossible you should see this, / Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, / As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross / As ignorance made drunk.
- And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their accesse to her, and every way keeping such a coyle with her, as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]
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archaicCostly; expensive.
saltverb詞源 1/sɒlt/
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To add salt to.
- to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
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To deposit salt as a saline solution.
- The brine begins to salt.
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nauticaltransportTo fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
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businessminingTo insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
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archaeologyhistoryhuman-sciencesTo insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
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To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
- The composition of the fallout can also be changed by "salting" the weapon to be detonated. This consists in the inclusion of significant quantities of certain elements, possibly enriched in specific isotopes, for the purpose of producing induced radioactivity. There are several reasons why a weapon might be salted.
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To sprinkle throughout.
- They salted the document with arcane language.
- The Libertarians wish we had won the Vietnamese War, they would like to revoke civil rights legislation, they believe (even though they are supposedly anti-state) in a stronger Pentagon. They are salted with Nixonites, Young Americans for Freedom, John Birchers, Reaganites — in other words the old Joe McCarthy gang again. I thought they had left us, or reformed, or taken up knitting.
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computingcryptographyengineeringTo add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
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governmentmilitarypoliticsTo render a thing useless.
- In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas.
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To render a thing useless.
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To seek employment at a company in order to help unionize it.
- And then there was a different faction of organizers who you call more like “professional activists” or “white leftists,” and they were maybe more privileged, maybe just joined the job to salt for the union.
saltnoun詞源 2
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obsoleteA bounding; a leaping; a prance.
- […] he hath the skill to draw Their nectar forth, with kissing; and could make More wanton salts from this brave promontory, Down to this valley, than the nimble roe;
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。