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Sarsaparilla is a sweet soft drink with no alcohol, dark and a little spicy, in the same family of tastes as root beer. dictionaries often say it is made from the root of the sassafras plant; the name itself comes from another climbing plant whose root went into old medicines and sodas. In real shops the two get mixed, and what is sold as sarsaparilla is often close to root beer. It is old-fashioned in Britain and America: you meet it in cowboy films, old stories, and a few soda brands, not in every café. In Taiwan, the drink people actually know is 沙士. People often say the first part as sass- or sahss-, as if the first r were not there — that is normal. Occasionally someone puts a tiny extra sound in, or swallows another; the spelling looks harder than the way most people say it.
沙士（台灣的沙士汽水，如黑松沙士；和疾病 SARS 不是同一個詞）
組成From Spanish zarzaparrilla. The first piece may go back, through Spanish zarza (“blackberry bush”), to Basque. English often drops the first of two r-sounds (as in February), which is why the start so often sounds like sass- or sahss-.
原始詞典資料5 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。
sarsaparillanoun/ˌsɑːspəˈɹɪlə/
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Any of various tropical (Central and South) American vines of the genus Smilax, such as Smilax aspera, which have fragrant roots.
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Dried roots of these plants, or a flavoring material extracted from these roots.
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A beverage (soft drink) flavored with this root, such as root beer.
- “[…]If Cassidy goes around shooting their fingers off, how are they going to lift their sarsaparilla?” “Rustlers don't drink sarsaparilla,” came the reply, ending the conversation and throwing me back inside my twenty-yard line.
- Many root teas taste delightful and the old American drink, sarsaparilla, was made on the lines of a decoction, while its pleasant taste was known by most of Victorian Britain.
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Any of several North American plants, of the genus Aralia, having umbels and small white flowers.
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An American vine of species Nephroia diversifolia.
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。