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Long, thin, round strings of pasta, boiled in water until soft and usually eaten with a sauce.
Long, thin, round strings長條、細、圓形的麵條 of pasta義大利麵, boiled in water煮熟 until soft煮到軟, and而 usually通常 eaten with a sauce配醬汁吃。
Two things about the grammar surprise . First, it is uncountable in English: 'spaghetti is ready', 'some spaghetti', 'a lot of spaghetti' — never 'a spaghetti' or 'two spaghettis', even though you are clearly looking at hundreds of strands. If you must count, count the strands: 'a strand of spaghetti', or say 'a plate of spaghetti'.
Two things兩件事 about the grammar在文法上 surprise learners會讓學習者驚訝。First第一, it它 is uncountable是不可數名詞 in English在英文裡: 'spaghetti is ready' 'spaghetti is ready', 'some spaghetti' 'some spaghetti', 'a lot of spaghetti' 'a lot of spaghetti'——never絕不會說 'a spaghetti' 'a spaghetti' or或 'two spaghettis' 'two spaghettis', even though即使 you你 are clearly looking at明明眼前是 hundreds of strands好幾百條麵條。If如果 you你 must count一定要數, count就數 the strands一條一條的麵: 'a strand of spaghetti' 'a strand of spaghetti', or或 say就說 'a plate of spaghetti' 'a plate of spaghetti'。
Second, in Italian it is already a plural — one strand is a spaghetto — but English borrowed the plural form and then treated the whole thing as one mass, the way we treat rice.
Second第二, in Italian在義大利文裡 it它 is already早就是 a plural複數形: one strand一條 is是 a spaghetto spaghetto——but但 English英文 borrowed the plural form借用了這個複數形 and而且 then接著 treated the whole thing把整體 as one mass當成一整團不可數的東西, the way就像 we treat rice我們對待「米」那樣。
The word also gets used for anything that looks like a tangled pile of strings: 'spaghetti wiring' or 'spaghetti code' means cables or computer instructions so tangled that nobody can follow one line from end to end. And 'a spaghetti junction' is a road interchange with roads looping over and under each other.
The word這個字 also也 gets used被用來指 for anything任何東西 that looks like看起來像 a tangled pile of strings一堆糾結的線: 'spaghetti wiring' 'spaghetti wiring' or或 'spaghetti code' 'spaghetti code' means指的是 cables or computer instructions電纜或電腦程式碼 so tangled that糾結到 nobody can follow沒有人能夠追蹤 one line from end to end一條線從頭到尾。And而 'a spaghetti junction' 'a spaghetti junction' is是 a road interchange一個交流道 with roads道路 looping over and under each other層層交錯地上跨下鑽。
In Taiwan, 義大利麵 covers pasta rather broadly, so a menu saying 義大利麵 might bring you something flat or shaped instead — spaghetti in English means specifically the long thin round kind.
In Taiwan在台灣, 義大利麵這個詞 covers涵蓋的範圍 pasta rather broadly比較廣泛地指所有義大利麵食, so所以 a menu一份菜單 saying寫著 義大利麵 might可能會 bring you端給你的是 something flat or shaped instead扁的或有花樣的麵——spaghetti而英文的spaghetti in English means specifically專指 the long thin round kind那種長條細圓的麵。
組成From Italian spaghetti, plural of spaghetto 'a little string', from spago 'string, twine' + -etto, a suffix meaning 'small'. So the name simply means 'little strings'.
原始詞典資料17 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。
spaghettinoun/spəˈɡɛti/
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A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
- Her mother was cooking spaghetti for dinner.
- Maccheroni, or Spaghetti, a smaller kind of macaroni, sufficient for the dinner of an ordinary mortal, generally follows the soup. It is as a rule served up with tomato sauce, and Parmesan cheese thickly scattered over it.
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A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
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derogatoryinformalDenoting Italianness.
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informalSomething physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
- spaghetti grid spaghetti junction spaghetti limbs spaghetti strap spaghetti stripes
- Or how about that spaghetti of cables, adaptors and plugs you keep in a box somewhere, the detritus of old phones, laptops and tablets — each with a different charging point — is that not an example of staggeringly wasteful, bad design?
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informalbusinesselectricalelectrical-engineeringSomething physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
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informalroadtransportSomething physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
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informalSomething physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
- Coordinate term: blob of death
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informalSomething confusing or intricate.
- The lands along the Danube, by contrast, seemed wide open. That is, if he could find his way through them. “Arrows drawn on maps build up into an astonishing spaghetti of population movement,” Mr. Winder writes, and a single city like Lviv, now in Ukraine, might also have been called Lemberg, Lemberik, Lwow or Lvov.
- In an age when the charts have become an algorithmic spaghetti of streaming plays, radio and downloads, the purest way of measuring who is up and who is down in pop might be the Billboard Social 50, a sub-chart that measures reach across social networks.
spaghettiverb/spəˈɡɛti/
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informalTo serve (someone) spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
- Visiting members expected to attend, and all will be properly spaghettied.
- Pi Phis spaghettied their mothers and fathers last Saturday evening in the rooms.
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informalTo cause (someone or something) to become, or appear to become, longer and thinner; to stretch.
- He spaghettied the referee when he landed on him.
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informalTo cause (something) to become tangled.
- All these are spaghettied together, as the following boxscore will show: […]
- "What makes you think this watercolorist and I would develop a romantic relationship?" Sissy's brow was spaghettied.
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informalTo eat spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
- I have "spaghettied" from Ventimiglia to Brindisi and I doubt if I have ever eaten as excellent spaghetti, certainly none better nor richer, than I have enjoyed in the home of a very charming Maryland hostess.
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informalTo become, or appear to become, longer and thinner.
- The oldest Lark spaghettied down to a noodle and slithered through the letterbox-like hole at the bottom of the cistern.
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informalTo become tangled.
- The cables spaghettied onto the shoulder of the technician.
- These elegant instrument pods will bring all the instruments within eye range of the most nearsighted skipper, keep his bulkhead intact and eliminate all those messy wires spaghettiing around.
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。