- 1天婦羅（台灣的「甜不辣」是另一種食物——魚漿製品，別混為一談）
Japanese food made by dipping pieces of seafood or vegetable in a thin, cold batter and frying them quickly in hot oil. The point of good tempura is lightness: the coating should be pale and crisp, almost lacy, not thick and brown like the batter on British fish and chips. , , sweet potato, pumpkin, and green pepper are the usual pieces, and it is eaten with a dipping sauce or just salt. In English the word is a mass noun — "we ordered tempura", not "a tempura" — and it works in front of another word to name a dish: "tempura ", "vegetable tempura", "tempura udon". It is also used loosely on Western menus for anything fried in that light style, even things no Japanese cook would do that way.
組成English took it from Japanese 天麩羅 (tenpura), and the Japanese word came from Portuguese, brought by missionaries in the 1500s. Scholars are not agreed on which Portuguese word: some say tempero, "seasoning"; others say têmpora, the church days when priests ate no meat and cooked fish instead. Both trace back to Latin tempus, "time".
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。
tempuranoun/ˈtɛmpʊɹə/
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A Japanese dish made by deep-frying vegetables, seafood, or other foods in a light batter.
- At last you spot a tempura stand. Not quite what you had in mind, but it'll do. Four pounds for tempura and noodles. Hunger. Yes.
- The Chicken Big Mac is similar to its beefy sibling; however, it replaces the two burgers with two tempura chicken patties.
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