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To slather something is to spread a thick, generous layer of a soft stuff on it — butter, cream, sauce, paint, . You slather it on. It sounds messy and plenty, not neat. Informal, very common in American English, and understood elsewhere. Though actually, we do not know where the word came from. It shows up in the early 1800s meaning to slip or slide; the 'cover with a thick layer' meaning is the one you will meet. You may also hear a slather of something, or slathers of it, meaning a lot. Some people compare an old 'to rain heavily' sense with German and Frisian words for noisy rain, but that is only a maybe — leave it if you like; the spreading meaning is the one that teaches the word.
厚厚塗上、大把抹上
組成Origin unknown. Attested from the early 1800s, first in a 'slip, slide' sense.
原始詞典資料7 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。
slatherverb/ˈslæðə(ɹ)/
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To spread something thickly on something else; to coat well.
- I slathered jam on my toast.
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To apply generously upon.
- I slathered my toast with jam.
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To squander.
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To rain.
- ... rain had fallen all night and it was slathering down in sheets now. That didn't add to my good humor none.
- ... rain still slathered down out of the rubbery black sky. "Why is the sarge always pickin' on us?" asked Ortwingle sorrowfully as the water drenched down the collar of his raincoat. "I figger maybe we are dependable," Smoot[…]
slathernoun/ˈslæðə(ɹ)/
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cookingfoodlifestyleA thick sauce or spread that is to be slathered (spread thickly) onto food.
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Drool (especially if abundant).
- [The river] Ván in SnE I 21 is mentioned as coming from the slather of the bound Fenris Wolf.
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A generous or abundant quantity.
- Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
- In her eyes the manse people were quite fabulously rich, and no doubt those girls had slathers of shoes and stockings.
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。