A swede is a large round root vegetable with rough purple-and-yellow skin and firm orange-yellow flesh inside. It grows underground, tastes slightly sweet and a bit peppery, and is usually peeled, boiled, and mashed, or cut into soups and stews. It is winter food, cheap food, and in Britain it is strongly tied to Scottish cooking, where mashed swede is served with haggis and called 'neeps'.

A swede swede指的是 is a large round root vegetable一種大顆、圓形的根莖類蔬菜 with rough purple-and-yellow skin外皮粗糙、呈紫黃色 and firm orange-yellow flesh inside裡面的果肉則是結實的橘黃色. It它 grows underground長在地底下, tastes slightly sweet and a bit peppery吃起來帶點甜、又有點辛辣, and而 is usually peeled, boiled, and mashed通常會削皮、水煮，再搗成泥, or或是 cut into soups and stews切塊煮進湯和燉菜裡. It它 is winter food是冬天的食物, cheap food也是便宜的食物, and而 in Britain在英國 it is strongly tied to Scottish cooking跟蘇格蘭料理的關係特別深, where搗成泥的swede mashed swede is served with haggis會配著haggis吃 and還 called 'neeps'被叫做『neeps』.

This is the British word. Americans call the same vegetable a rutabaga, and if you say swede in the United States most people will not know what you mean.

This這 is the British word是英式英文的說法. Americans美國人 call the same vegetable把同一種蔬菜叫做 a rutabagarutabaga, and如果 if you say swede in the United States你在美國說swede, most people will not know what you mean大部分人根本聽不懂你在說什麼.

A swede is bigger, harder, and yellower than a turnip, though shops and cooks mix the two names up constantly, and in Scotland and northern England 'turnip' often means what the south calls a swede.

than a turnip跟turnip比起來, a swede swede is bigger, harder, and yellower比較大、比較硬、也比較黃, though不過 shops and cooks店家和廚師 mix the two names up constantly常常把這兩個名字搞混, and而且 in Scotland and northern England在蘇格蘭和英格蘭北部, 'turnip'『turnip』 often means常常指的是 what the south calls a swede南部所說的swede.

Written with a capital S, Swede is a completely different word: a person from Sweden.

Written with a capital S如果S要大寫, Swede Swede is a completely different word就完全是另一個詞了: a person from Sweden指的是瑞典人.