One way to hold this word: a hot dish just lifted off the stove — salt, onion, herbs, steam rising. Two things sit inside that picture. It is not sweet, and it smells good enough to make you come closer. Every use of savoury leans on one of those two, and the negative phrase works by taking the second one away.
Three branches
不甜的那一半：鹹食與鹹點
這一家專吃畫面裡「不甜」那一邊。英文習慣先把食物切成兩堆，甜的歸 sweet，其餘一律歸 savoury，所以這個字常常不是在形容味道有多鹹，而是在告訴你這東西屬於哪一類。
adjective · B2
Used about food that tastes of salt, or of things like meat, cheese, onion and herbs, instead of tasting sweet. English often sorts food into two groups, sweet and savoury, and this word names the not-sweet group.
鹹的；鹹食的
味道本身：那股鹹香
這一家把重心從「屬於哪一類」移到「聞起來如何」。核心畫面裡那股從鍋子冒出來、讓人回頭的香氣，就是這個用法要講的東西。
adjective · C1
Used about a smell or a taste that is strong and pleasant but not sweet — the warm, full smell that comes from cooking meat, onions, garlic or herbs.
鹹香的；香味濃郁的
香味被抽走：形容人和地方
把畫面裡「好聞、讓人想靠近」那一半整個拿掉，剩下的感覺就被英文借去形容人、地方和生意。這是一條比喻上的連結，不是在說歷史上先有哪一個。
adjective · C1
If you say that a person, a place or a piece of business is not very savoury or none too savoury, you mean it seems unpleasant, dishonest, or the kind of thing people do not approve of.
不太正派；不太乾淨；令人不舒服
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。
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。