核心畫面

Picture eating standing up between meals: a banana at three o'clock, a handful of nuts before the train. Small, quick, not sat down to — that is what marks it off from a meal, not what the food happens to be.

可以想成:兩餐之間站著吃的那一口——下午三點的一根香蕉、趕車前抓的一把堅果。決定它是不是 snack 的,是「量小、更多收起可以想成:兩餐之間站著吃的那一口——下午三點的一根香蕉、趕車前抓的一把堅果。決定它是不是 snack 的,是「量小、快、不坐下來好好吃」這件事,而不是食物本身;同一塊麵包當正餐吃就不叫 snack。

原始詞典資料9 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。

snacknoun詞源 1/snæk/

  • 1

    A light meal.

  • 2

    An item of food eaten between meals.

    • Stay another fifteen minutes, in which we can have a snack of some kind in place of dinner.
    • The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone.
  • 3

    slangA very sexy and attractive person.

    • Up close, he was a total snack. “That was pretty slick.” “Well.” He cocked his head, “I'm a pretty slick guy.” “I'm Kevin,” I said. “Romeo,” he put out his hand. “You're kidding.”
    • You were looking like a snack. I was looking like a snack. We were finally going to do what two snacks do... I immediately went into my routine. Covers on. Lights off. But you Mr. Tate...you softly grabbed my hand, kissed it, and turned the lights back on.

snackverb詞源 1/snæk/

  • 1

    To eat a light meal.

    • Insult is added to injury when I see the West Coast Railways dining train at the adjacent platform, where guests are sat snacking and drinking wine at a very sociable distance.
  • 2

    To eat between meals.

snacknoun詞源 2/snæk/

  • 1

    obsoleteA share; a part or portion.

    • All my demurrs but double his attacks; / At laſt he vvhiſpers, "Do; and vve go ſnacks."
    • "Have you exhibited very much?" said Young Person in the bar-parlour of the "Coach and Horses," where Mr Watkins was skilfully accumulating local information on the night of his arrival. / "Very little," said Mr Watkins, "just a snack here and there."

snackverb詞源 2/snæk/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo snatch.

  • 2

    obsoleteTo bite.

  • 3

    obsoleteTo share.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。