- 1
Tapioca is a starch taken from the root of the cassava plant, dried into small hard white grains or a fine flour. When you cook it in liquid it swells, turns clear, and goes soft and .
Tapioca Tapioca是 a starch taken from一種提取自 the root of the cassava plant木薯根部的澱粉 dried into曬乾後製成 small hard white grains小顆的白色硬粒 or a fine flour或細粉 When you cook it in liquid當你把它煮在液體裡 it swells它會膨脹 turns clear變透明 and goes soft and chewy並且變得軟軟QQ的
In British and American cooking it is best known as a milky pudding — small pearls in sweet milk, a school-dinner dessert that older people remember with strong feelings in both directions. In Taiwan it is the same substance you already know very well: the black pearls in bubble tea are tapioca, boiled with brown sugar.
In British and American cooking在英美的料理裡 it is best known as它最有名的樣子是 a milky pudding一種奶味布丁 small pearls in sweet milk小珍珠泡在甜牛奶裡 a school-dinner dessert一種學校營養午餐的甜點 that older people remember年紀大的人對它 with strong feelings in both directions印象深刻又愛又恨 In Taiwan在台灣 it is the same substance它其實就是同一種東西 you already know very well你早就非常熟悉 the black pearls in bubble tea珍珠奶茶裡的黑珍珠 are tapioca就是tapioca boiled with brown sugar用黑糖煮的
It is uncountable, so you say 'some tapioca' and 'a bowl of tapioca', never 'a tapioca'. 'Tapioca pearls' is the usual name for the balls, and on English menus abroad bubble tea is often written 'tapioca milk tea'.
It is uncountable它是不可數名詞 so you say所以你會說 'some tapioca' 'some tapioca' and 'a bowl of tapioca'和'a bowl of tapioca' never 'a tapioca'絕不會說'a tapioca' 'Tapioca pearls' 'Tapioca pearls' is the usual name是常見的說法 for the balls指那些珠子 and on English menus abroad而在國外的英文菜單上 bubble tea is often written珍珠奶茶常常寫作 'tapioca milk tea' 'tapioca milk tea'
組成Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca, which took it from Old Tupi tapi'oka, a language of Brazil — the plant and the food came to Europe from South America.
原始詞典資料2 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。
tapiocanoun/tæpiˈoʊkə/
- 1
A starchy food made from the cassava plant, used in puddings.
- Fish eyes and glue we used to call the half-cooked, large-grained, starchy tapioca without flavour that we were served every week in our residence at university. How I longed for the creamy pudding Mother used to make.
- It happened when beverage aficionados learned that tapioca, the starch used to make the sweet, round, chewy black bubbles — or pearls — that are the featured topping in the popular boba tea drink, was in short supply.
- 2
The cassava plant, Manihot esculenta, from which tapioca is derived; manioc.
- When the entire coast-line becomes a sea of waving palms, with Chinese and Malay villages fringing the shores, which are at present mere barren wastes of mangroves, with plantations of pepper, of gambier, and of tapioca and rice, the Northern Territory, backed up by the unswerving energy of the Australian squatter, miner, and planter, will present a spectacle almost unknown in the scheme of British colonization.
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。