核心畫面
You can picture a small tube of thin skin packed tight with chopped meat, salt and , tied off at both ends — a plain, cheap, everyday piece of food you fry or boil and eat hot, or slice cold. Nothing special about it: that ordinariness is what lets it stand in later for 'not even the smallest, most everyday thing'.
可以想成一小截薄薄的腸衣，裡面塞滿了絞碎的肉、鹽和香料，兩頭紮起來——煎一煎、煮一煮就能吃，或是切片冷著吃。它就是一…更多收起
可以想成一小截薄薄的腸衣，裡面塞滿了絞碎的肉、鹽和香料，兩頭紮起來——煎一煎、煮一煮就能吃，或是切片冷著吃。它就是一樣再普通不過、又便宜又常見的食物；正因為普通到不值一提，後來才被拿去當「連這麼小的東西都沒有」的代表。原始詞典資料14 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。
sausagenoun/ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing.
- 2
An individual item of this food.
- "When frying sausages," remarked Cripps, who seemed to regard that occupation as a cult, "it is advisable to perforate the outer skin with a fork."
- 3
A sausage-shaped thing.
- 4
vulgarslangA penis.
- 5
informalA term of endearment.
- my little sausage
- “Algernon, you silly sausage. Now you want to marry me? Don't you remember we were already engaged to be married, and then I broke it off with you?”
- 6
archaicgovernmentmilitarypoliticsA saucisse.
- 7
A dachshund; sausage dog.
sausageverb/ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
To squeeze tightly into (something) in a rolled or sausage-like form.
- He leapt to his feet, carefully sausaged his screwdrivers in a roll beneath his arm and turned to reach into the box.
- 2
To squeeze (something) into something tightly fitting.
- He is sausaged into several overcoats and wears a brown macintosh under which he holds a roll of parchment.
- The second Mrs. Teague wore a baby blue tank top and too-tight white shorts that sausaged her hips.
- 3
To fit snugly into.
- Dressing in a flash, she sausaged on her skinny jeans and sleeveless camo top with peek-a-boo sides for boob aficionados.
- 4
To make into sausage.
- There is no escaping the Limerick pig. In single file, in battalions, as solitary scout, alive or dead, baconed and sausaged, he dominates the town.
- I mayn’t know much about pigs, but I know a lot about Muckley, and there must be something pretty wrong with any pigs that he wouldn’t risk sausaging.
- 5
To make sausage-like, especially to give the appearance of barely fitting into the casing or skin.
- Blood and gravity had sausaged her legs and feet, fattening them into white-stocking loaves that dangled eighteen inches above her neatly folded nurse’s uniform on the floor.
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engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.
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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。