喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture tea as one plant turned into one warm cup: leaves from a bush are picked and dried, then hot water is poured over them to make a brown drink. Everything else the word covers — the leaves, the bush, the little meal, the comfort — hangs off that single picture of leaf-meets-hot-water.

可以把 tea 想成「一株植物變成一杯熱飲」的畫面：從茶樹採下葉子、曬乾，再沖上熱水，就成了那杯褐色的茶。這個字後來…更多收起可以把 tea 想成「一株植物變成一杯熱飲」的畫面：從茶樹採下葉子、曬乾，再沖上熱水，就成了那杯褐色的茶。這個字後來涵蓋的一切——茶葉、茶樹、配茶的小餐點、甚至那份溫暖的安慰——都是從「葉子遇上熱水」這一幕長出來的。

From the picture

像茶一樣沖的飲品

同樣是「熱水澆過葉子或花、泡出一杯熱飲」這個動作，只是泡的不再是茶樹的葉子，而換成薄荷、洋甘菊這類植物。形式照搬，原料換掉，所以也借用 tea 這個字。

tea (herbal drink) · noun · A1

A hot drink made by pouring boiling water onto leaves or flowers such as mint or camomile, sometimes used to help you feel better.

花草茶

配茶的一餐（英式）

從「那杯茶」延伸到「圍著那杯茶吃的一餐」。在英國，喝茶是固定的生活場景，久了那個時段連同桌上的食物就一起被叫成 tea——字從飲料擴到了整頓飯。

tea (afternoon meal, British) · noun · A1

A small afternoon meal of cake or biscuits eaten with a cup of tea, common in Britain.

下午茶

片語：噓寒問暖

這個意思只活在 tea and sympathy 這個固定說法裡。遞上一杯茶安慰難過的人，是英國式的體貼畫面；久了「那杯茶」就成了「溫言安慰」的象徵——茶本身退到背景，留下的是那份關心。

tea and sympathy · noun · A1

In the phrase 'tea and sympathy', kind words and attention given to someone who is upset.

安慰 / 噓寒問暖

Also in this word

tea (the drink) · noun · A1

A hot brown drink made by pouring boiling water onto dried tea leaves, or a cup of this drink.

茶

tea (the leaves) · noun · A1

The dried, finely cut leaves that you use to make the drink tea.

茶葉

tea (the plant) · noun · A1

The bush whose leaves are picked and dried to make the drink tea.

茶樹

原始詞典資料28 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。

Teaname

  • 1

    A city in South Dakota.

teanoun詞源 1/tiː/

  • 1

    The tea plant (Camellia sinensis); (countable) a variety of this plant.

    • Darjeeling tea is grown in India.
  • 2

    The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; (countable) a variety of such leaves.

    • Go to the supermarket and buy some Darjeeling tea.
    • Not for all the tea in China.
  • 3

    The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water.

    • Would you like some tea?
    • She is drinking her tea right now.
  • 4

    Specifically sweet tea, an iced tea supersaturated with sugar.

  • 5

    Any drink which is similar to Camellia sinensis tea in some way

    • Mushroom Tea / 8 cups water / 1 cup dried reishi mushroom pieces [...] 1. Start by making Reishi Mushroom Tea: Bring water to a boil in a medium saucepan. 2. Add the reishi mushroom pieces[…]
  • 6

    Any drink which is similar to Camellia sinensis tea in some way:

    • camomile tea; mint tea
    • Curcuma tea relieves colds[…]
  • 7

    Any drink which is similar to Camellia sinensis tea in some way:

    • beef tea
  • 8

    A cup of any of these drinks, often with milk, sugar, lemon, or tapioca pearls.

    • We'd like one tea and one coffee, please.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A glass of these drinks.

  • 10

    A light midafternoon meal, typically but not necessarily including tea.

    • I won't make it to the breakfast event, but I'll see you at the tea.
    • But the gorge of the Rush was not at all a nice place for travelling either. I mean, it was not a nice place for people in a hurry. For an afternoon's ramble ending in a picnic tea it would have been delightful.
  • 11

    Synonym of supper, the main evening meal, whether or not it includes the drink tea.

    • The family were sitting round the table, eating their tea.
    • Breakfast was composed of a meal which reminded me of a linseed poultice; for dinner there were potatoes boiled in their jackets with beef saltier than the ocean itself. [...] Tea was something like breakfast.
  • 12

    ball-gamescricketgamesThe break in play between the second and third sessions.

    • Australia were 490 for 7 at tea on the second day.
    • As recently as the mid-80s the players would be given a bottle of beer at lunchtime at some county grounds, and "tea" still meant a cup of tea into the 90s.
  • 13

    datedslangSynonym of marijuana.

    • So they were evidence. Evidence of what? That a man occasionally smoked a stick of tea, a man who looked as if any touch of the exotic would appeal to him. On the other hand lots of tough guys smoked marijuana […].
    • Tea puts a musician in a real masterly sphere, and that's why so many jazzmen have used it.
  • 14

    slangInformation, especially gossip.

    • Spill the tea on that drama, hon.
    • Now I've told you that I've taken LSD, and you think I'm gonna leap through a window or something like that. And you know why that is, that's because of Art Linkletter's daughter.... But let me give you the tea on her, see, she took LSD, realized she was Art Linkletter's daughter, and threw herself out of the window!

teaverb詞源 1/tiː/

  • 1

    To drink tea.

    • We tea’d with May, and had to wait over an hour for a taxi!
    • I dined yesterday at | three on mutton chops and 1/2 pint of E[ast] I [ndian] sherry, and then tead and muffined' at 8.
  • 2

    To take afternoon tea (a light meal).

    • The wind was high and the hills ditto, and both being against us we were late in reaching Hitchin (30 from Cambridge), so giving up the idea of reaching Oxford we toiled on through Luton, on to Dunstable (47), where we teaed moderately […]
  • 3

    To give tea to.

    • And they’ve got Professor Hummums with ’em, the great Everlasting Star of the Nineteenth Century, which he has breakfasted and dined and tea’d and supped here ever since yesterday.
    • In half an hour they had all been tea’d and coffeed and refreshed by the nurses, and shortly after were all undressed and put to bed clean and comfortable, and in a droll state of grateful wonder;

teaadj詞源 1/tiː/

  • 1

    slangGood-looking, sexy.

teanoun詞源 2

  • 1

    A moment, a historical unit of time from China, about the amount of time needed to quickly drink a traditional cup of tea.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。