喜樂美語
  1. 1（味道或氣味）嗆勁、衝勁——那種帶點酸或鹹的爽口刺激感，例如檸檬的嗆味、海風的鹹味。中文沒有完全對應的單字，「一股濃烈的酸香」大概是意思。（刀具上的 tang 另指刀莖／刀舌。）

    A tang is a taste or smell that is strong and sharp in a good way — the kind that wakes your mouth or nose up rather than sitting there quietly. It is used most for sour or salty-sharp things: lemon, vinegar, aged cheese, sea air. Usually singular with 'a' and often followed by 'of': a tang of lemon, the salty tang of the sea. The word carries a small feeling of pleasure; if you disliked the taste you would more likely say it was sour or bitter. It is a slightly literary word — you meet it in food writing and novels more than in everyday conversation, where people just say 'it's a bit sour' or use the adjective form . There are two other meanings you may meet. Sometimes 'a tang of' means a faint trace of a quality in something abstract — 'a tang of sadness in his voice' — a stretch of the taste meaning. And quite separately, the tang of a knife is the metal spine that runs back from the blade into the wooden handle; that meaning belongs to knife-makers and comes from an old Norse word for a point, unrelated to the taste sense.

From the word’s history

From Middle English tange, from Old Norse tangi 'pointed metal tool'; compare Middle Dutch tanger 'sharp, tart'; the taste sense is flagged as possibly separate.

可能來自古諾斯語 tangi「尖工具」；可比較中古荷蘭文 tanger「酸」。

Wiktionary

組成The taste meaning is thought to be imitative in origin — a short sharp sound for a short sharp sensation. The knife-part meaning is a separate word, from Middle English tange, from Old Norse tangi, a pointed metal tool; the two just ended up spelled the same.

同家族的字

  • tangythe adjective, formed straight from tang + -y

原始詞典資料30 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

Tangname詞源 1/tæŋ/

  • 1

    Tang Dynasty, the imperial dynasty of China which reigned from 618 to 907.

    • The two sculptures, which were part of religious rites, belong to the Tang dynasty, which ruled between 618 and 907 AD and is considered a golden period of the Chinese civilization.
  • 2

    Later Tang, the Turkic dynasty of China which lasted from 923 to 936.

    • Empress Liu (ca. 890-926 A.D.), whose birthplace was Chenan in Wei (now Chenan county, Hebei province), was the wife of Li Cunxu, who reigned as Emperor Zhuangzong, during the Tang dynasty.
  • 3

    Southern Tang. A kingdom in China which existed between 937 and 975.

  • 4

    Any of a number of places in China.

  • 5

    Any of a number of places in China.

    • A biography of Hu claims that Hu's attitudes changed in 1961, after he was sent to supervise agricultural policy changes in Tang county, Hebei province.
  • 6

    A Chinese surname from Mandarin.

Tangname詞源 2/tæŋ/

  • 1

    A Chinese surname from Mandarin.

Tangname詞源 3/tæŋ/

  • 1

    A Chinese surname from Cantonese.

Tangname詞源 4/tæŋ/

  • 1

    A Chinese surname from Cantonese.

Tangname詞源 5/tæŋ/

  • 1

    A Chinese surname from Teochew.

Tangname詞源 6/tæŋ/

  • 1

    A Chinese surname from Hokkien.

Tangname詞源 7/tæŋ/

  • 1

    Any of a number of places, including a village in Iran and a village in Afghanistan.

Tangname詞源 8/tæŋ/

  • 1

    A gewog of Bumthang District, Bhutan.

tangnoun詞源 1/ˈtæŋ/

  • 1

    A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.

    • a tang of citrus
    • The miraculous air, heady with ozone and made memorably sweet by leagues of wild flowerets, gave tang and savour to the breath.
  • 2

    A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.

    • a tang of cellar
    • Wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
  • 3

    A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.

    • a tang of pedantry
    • Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny.
  • 4

    A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.

    • (archaic)
    • slip the cable over the tang
  • 5

    A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.

    • full-tang
    • A full-tang knife is strongest against handle breakage, but partial-tang knives are common because of a combination of facts: they are inexpensive, and in some applications any manner of use that would exceed the handle's limit is not an appropriate manner of use.
  • 6

    A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.

    • I spent the evening collecting the abandoned nests of birds from a rock face a half league distant, and that night I struck fire from the tang of Terminus Est and boiled the coarse meal (which took a long time to cook, because of the altitude) and ate it.
  • 7

    engineeringfirearmsgovernmentA projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.

    • The rifle carried a vernier sight on the tang[…]
  • 8

    gamesA shuffleboard paddle.

另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.

tangnoun詞源 2/ˈtæŋ/

  • 1

    A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.

tangverb詞源 2/ˈtæŋ/

  • 1

    datedagriculturebeekeepingbusinessTo strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper.

  • 2

    To make a ringing sound; to ring.

    • let thy tongue tang arguments of state

tangnoun詞源 3/ˈtæŋ/

  • 1

    rareknotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)

tangnoun詞源 4/ˈtæŋ/

  • 1

    vulgarThe vagina or vulva.

    • The guys like to look at her tang, because that's how they are […]
  • 2

    vulgarSexual intercourse with a woman

tangnoun詞源 5/ˈtæŋ/

  • 1

    biologynatural-scienceszoologyAny of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.

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