Smoked describes food — usually fish, meat or cheese — that has been hung in smoke for hours or days to preserve it and give it a deep, dark, slightly burnt-wood taste. Smoked salmon, smoked ham, smoked duck, smoked cheese. It goes in front of the food word, and it tells you both how the food was made and how it will taste: salty, savoury, a little like a bonfire.

Smoked describes food — usually fish, meat or cheeseSmoked用來形容食物——通常是魚、肉，或起司, that has been hung in smoke for hours or days那種被掛在煙裡燻上好幾個小時或好幾天的食物 to preserve it and give it a deep, dark, slightly burnt-wood taste目的是保存它，並帶出一種深沉、暗黑，帶點燒木頭味道的口感。Smoked salmon, smoked ham, smoked duck, smoked cheese像smoked salmon（煙燻鮭魚）、smoked ham（煙燻火腿）、smoked duck（煙燻鴨）、smoked cheese（煙燻起司）。It goes in front of the food word它會放在食物名稱前面, and it tells you both how the food was made and how it will taste同時告訴你食物是怎麼做的，也告訴你它嚐起來會是什麼味道: salty, savoury, a little like a bonfire鹹、鮮，還有一點像營火的味道。

Two kinds hide under the one word. Cold-smoked food is smoked without real heat, so it stays soft and raw-looking — that is smoked salmon, the thin orange slices. Hot-smoked food is cooked by the smoke, so it is firm and flakes apart. Both are simply called smoked in ordinary speech.

Two kinds hide under the one word這一個字底下其實藏著兩種做法。Cold-smoked food is smoked without real heatcold-smoked（冷燻）的食物是在沒有真正加熱的情況下燻的, so it stays soft and raw-looking所以還是軟的，看起來像生的 — that is smoked salmon, the thin orange slices那就是smoked salmon那種薄薄的橘色魚片。Hot-smoked food is cooked by the smokehot-smoked（熱燻）的食物是被煙燻熟的, so it is firm and flakes apart所以是紮實的，會一片片剝落。Both are simply called smoked in ordinary speech日常說話裡兩種都直接叫做smoked。

The word also stretches beyond food: smoked glass is glass darkened to a grey-brown, so smoked windows on a car are tinted ones. And of course smoked is the past form of the verb smoke, in both its senses — "he smoked for twenty years," "the chimney smoked badly" — but as a describing word before a noun it is nearly always about food or glass.

The word also stretches beyond food這個字也延伸到食物以外: smoked glass is glass darkened to a grey-brownsmoked glass是被弄暗成灰棕色的玻璃, so smoked windows on a car are tinted ones所以車上的smoked windows就是有貼隔熱紙、顏色較深的車窗。And of course smoked is the past form of the verb smoke, in both its senses當然，smoked也是動詞smoke的過去式，兩種意思都有 — 'he smoked for twenty years,' 'the chimney smoked badly'像'he smoked for twenty years'（他抽了二十年的菸）、'the chimney smoked badly'（煙囪冒了很多煙）— but as a describing word before a noun it is nearly always about food or glass但當它放在名詞前面當形容詞用時，幾乎都是在講食物或玻璃。

Taiwan knows this word well through 煙燻: 煙燻鮭魚 on a hotel breakfast table, and the local 煙燻滷味 stalls.

Taiwan knows this word well through 煙燻台灣其實很熟悉這個字，透過「煙燻」這個說法: 煙燻鮭魚 on a hotel breakfast table像飯店早餐桌上的煙燻鮭魚, and the local 煙燻滷味 stalls還有在地的煙燻滷味攤。