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A baked dish, French in origin, made from a thick base of eggs, flour and milk mixed with beaten egg , so that the air trapped in the makes it swell high above the dish in the oven and come out light and puffy. It can be savoury — cheese, , mushroom — or sweet, with chocolate, lemon or fruit, in which case it is a dessert. The important cultural fact is that a soufflé is fragile: it must be eaten straight from the oven, and it sinks within minutes as it cools, and a bang of the oven door or an opened door too early can it. Because of that, English uses it as a picture for anything impressive that collapses easily — 'the whole plan was a soufflé', 'his confidence sank like a soufflé.' Cooks also use it as a byword for difficulty: making one is a test of skill. The accent on the final e is normally kept in careful writing, and the word is said 'soo-FLAY' with the stress at the end, French-style. Plural is soufflés.
舒芙蕾（法式蛋奶烤點心，出爐後很快塌掉；台灣甜點店直接用「舒芙蕾」）
組成From French soufflé, literally 'puffed up, blown' — the past participle of souffler, 'to blow'. The dish is named for what the air does to it in the oven.
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。
soufflénoun/ˈsuːfleɪ/
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A baked dish made from beaten egg whites and various other ingredients, usually prepared and served in a small earthenware bowl (ramekin).
- Setting the soufflés before us, the waitress warns that the ramekins are hot.
souffléadj/ˈsuːfleɪ/
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ceramicschemistryengineeringDecorated with very small drops or sprinkles of colour, as if blown from a bellows.
souffléverb/ˈsuːfleɪ/
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cookingfoodlifestyleTo prepare as a soufflé.
- It is quite possible that the first attempt at souffléing potatoes may be a failure.
- Our lockers were on the floor, gear intermixed in heaps, as if King Kong had souffléed the room with an eggbeater the size of the Eiffel Tower.
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To treat analogously to the way one prepares a soufflé.
- The July Revolution's promises have been fricasseed, liberties ground into salamis, the budget souffléd, republicans put up as marmalade, public order fried, politesse burned, and glory boiled.
- Case pictured his pasty-faced mother talking her way out of being souffléd alive by pasty-faced nasties.
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To treat analogously to the way one prepares a soufflé.
- Designed by Shannon Rodgers for Jerry Silverman, in ivory souffléd wool tweed.
- The fabrics — some 25,000 yards of them — form an extraordinary collection, ranging from 69¢ domestic cottons to souffléd mohairs, Hong Kong silks and haute couture fabrics from the Rue de la Paix .
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To treat analogously to the way one prepares a soufflé.
- Feeling that he must bring his subject down to the level of a layman's comprehension, the author has outdone himself in preparing a style picturesque and souffléd enough to do the trick requested.
- And if you want to meditate on social significances, ask yourself what America would be like if our natural Angloid heaviness of temper had not been fermented and souffléd by such diverse racial strains?
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To treat analogously to the way one prepares a soufflé.
- Not a rite-of-passage rash-and-fever, not a week eating ice cream on the sofa, this was not chickenpox but a biblical plague the month before he turned two, his skinny frame covered entire with pennysized bulbs sagging, fat with neon green pus, as though he had been mummified in bubble wrap, victim of the world's bees, skin around the pustules souffléd with red welts, coat of monstrous nipples.
- The long polished table like the deck of his uncle Hugo's yacht, the partridge with bread sauce, the club claret, the white heads in black tie, the souffléd features of accountants, lawyers, civil servants, bankers, teachers, all scrambling to recall each other's nicknames for the chance to voice them once again.
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。