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/ˈspɪnɪtʃ/ · /ˈspɪnɪdʒ/
A vegetable with large dark green leaves. You can eat it raw in a salad, or cook it until the leaves go soft.
菠菜
核心畫面
You can picture a bunch of broad, dark green leaves on thin stems. Raw, they are crisp enough to toss into a salad; put them in a hot pan and a whole handful collapses into a small soft pile in seconds. That collapse is the thing people remember about this vegetable.
可以想成一把深綠色的大葉子，長在細細的莖上。生的時候夠脆，可以直接丟進沙拉；一下鍋卻軟得很快，滿滿一大把幾秒鐘就縮成…更多收起
可以想成一把深綠色的大葉子，長在細細的莖上。生的時候夠脆，可以直接丟進沙拉；一下鍋卻軟得很快，滿滿一大把幾秒鐘就縮成小小一坨——這個「一炒就塌」的畫面，大概是它最好記的地方。菠菜就是這種葉菜。原始詞典資料3 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。
spinachnoun/ˈspɪnɪt͡ʃ/
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A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea, or its leaves.
- Another option is to wash spinach and other leafy greens thoroughly in running water before eating them.
- 2
Any of numerous plants, or their leaves, which are used for greens in the same way Spinacia oleracea is or resemble it in some way.
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slanggolfhobbieslifestyleThick rough.
- That shot left me in the spinach!
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。