- 1（食物）酸香帶勁的、爽口帶酸的——像檸檬、優格、醃菜那種讓人開胃的酸。注意這是稱讚，跟單純的「酸」（sour，可能是難吃或壞掉）不一樣。
Tangy describes a taste or smell that is sharp and strong in a pleasant, refreshing way — the little bite you get from lemon, lime, vinegar, yogurt, pickles, passion fruit, or a strong old cheese. The key is that it is a compliment. Sour, by contrast, is neutral or negative; if you call a sauce tangy you are saying you like it, and food writers and menus use the word for exactly that reason. It works both before a noun and after 'be': 'a tangy sauce', 'this dressing is really tangy'. Common partners are sauce, dressing, marinade, cheese, yogurt, and fruit; it is also used for smells, especially salt air. It is a mild everyday word — perfectly natural in conversation about food, though you will meet it most often on packaging and in recipes. The related noun is tang ('a tang of lemon'), and you can say 'tangier' and 'tangiest'.
組成tangy = tang (a sharp taste or smell) + -y, the ending that turns a noun into an adjective meaning 'having this quality' — like salt → salty, or juice → juicy.
原始詞典資料1 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。
tangyadj/ˈtæŋiː/
- 1
Having a sharp, pungent flavor.
- Christmas queen Mary Berry's aubergine five-nut roast, from her Christmas Collection, is, as the name suggests, rather more focused on the nut side of things. Breadcrumbs play second fiddle to a medley of almonds, Brazils, chestnuts, pine nuts and pistachios which, although tangy with lemon juice and garlic, is outrageously dense. A single slice of this could leave you supine in front of the Queen's speech without even the wherewithal to reach for the remote control.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。