切下來的厚厚一片，煎或烤
核心用法：重點在「一整片、有厚度、上火烤」，換成什麼肉都還是同一個畫面。
beef steak · noun · A2
good beef, or a large thick piece of good red meat that you cook by grilling or frying.
牛排
核心畫面
You can picture one thick slab cut straight off a big piece of meat and dropped on a hot pan or grill — thick enough to keep its shape, one whole piece per person, cooked fast over high heat. Almost everything steak means starts from that single thick cut.
steak 可以想成從一大塊肉上直接切下來的一片厚肉，啪一聲放上熱鍋或烤架：厚到能維持形狀，一人一塊，用大火快煎快烤…更多收起
steak 可以想成從一大塊肉上直接切下來的一片厚肉，啪一聲放上熱鍋或烤架：厚到能維持形狀，一人一塊，用大火快煎快烤。這個字的各種用法，幾乎都是從「厚厚的一整片」這個畫面長出來的。From the word’s history
First recorded in the mid-15th century as steke, 'thick slice of meat cut for roasting', probably from Old Norse steik 'roast meat' and steikja 'to roast on a spit', from a root meaning 'to stick, pointed' — meat put on a spit. The thickness and the cooking-over-heat idea have been in the word from the start.
十五世紀中就有 steke 這個寫法，指「切下來拿去烤的厚肉片」，可能來自古北歐語 steik（烤肉）和 steikja（用叉子串起來烤），再往上追是一個「刺、尖」的字根——也就是串在叉子上的那塊肉。所以「厚、切下來的一片、直接用火烤」這幾件事，從一開始就在這個字裡面。
Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/word/steak
Two branches
英式：拿來慢燉的牛肉
還是同一塊肉，只是離開了熱鍋：英式廚房把切塊慢燉用的牛肉也叫 steak，字從「怎麼吃」轉去指「哪一種肉」。
stewing beef · noun · A2
British English: cheaper beef that you cut into pieces and cook slowly in a stew, pie, or casserole.
燉煮用牛肉
原始詞典資料4 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。
steaknoun/steɪk/
- 1
Beefsteak: a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
- 2
A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc.
- venison steak, pork steak, salmon steak; cauliflower steak, eggplant steaks
- The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […] But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.
- 3
A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish.
steakverb/steɪk/
- 1
To cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak.
- Really large bass can be treated as filets, as we mentioned earlier, or they can be steaked. If they are to be steaked, they should be cleaned like a bass to be baked, scaled, and the skin left in place.
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。