那鍋煮硬的糖，以及把東西裹上它
這一組直接就是核心畫面本身：一個是糖，一個是把糖用在食物上的動作。
noun · B1
A sweet, sticky brown food made by boiling sugar together with butter and water or milk until it cools hard; also one small piece of this.
太妃糖
核心畫面
One picture can hold this page: a pan of sugar and butter boiled until it turns brown, then left to cool until it is hard and . The sweet is that pan. The verb is that pan poured over fruit. And two British spoken uses simply borrow the name of the sweet for something else.
toffee 可以想成一鍋煮到變褐色的糖和奶油：放涼之後變硬，咬起來黏牙。這一頁的其他意思，都可以當成從這鍋糖延伸出…更多收起
toffee 可以想成一鍋煮到變褐色的糖和奶油：放涼之後變硬，咬起來黏牙。這一頁的其他意思，都可以當成從這鍋糖延伸出去的——把水果裹上它，以及英式口語裡借這個字來講別的事。From the word’s history
The evidence packet records toffee as an alteration of taffy: the same kind of boiled sugar sweet, with the spelling taking a different route in Britain.
提供的來源記載 toffee 是 taffy 的變體寫法：指的是同一類把糖煮硬的糖果，只是拼法在英國走了另一條路。
Wiktionary entry supplied in this batch's evidence packet (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1132276883): "An alteration of taffy."
Two branches
英式口語把這個字借走
這兩個用法都出現在英國口語裡。它們跟糖的關係比較像是把一個熟悉的字借過來用，來源沒有確定的說法，所以不要把這個連結當成語源上的推導。
noun · B2
If someone can't do something for toffee, they are very bad at doing it. The whole expression carries this meaning, and the source marks it British English and informal.
完全不會
原始詞典資料6 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。
Toffeenoun
- 1
informalball-gamesgameshobbiesA fan or member of Everton F.C..
toffeenoun/ˈtɒfi/
- 1
A type of chewy confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard.
- 2
A small, individual piece of toffee.
- The tin is 6½ in. high and 4 in. in diameter, and has a domed snap-on lid with knob; it will hold 1 lb. of toffees.
- 3
Any kind of sweets; candy.
- 4
slangNonsense; rubbish.
- What a load of old toffee!
toffeeverb/ˈtɒfi/
- 1
To coat in toffee.
- The plant will close and three-quarters of Britain's apple toffeeing capacity will lie idle.
- But all the eating up of shoo-fly pie, and the cooking up of gauzy cumuli of pink candy, and the toffeeing of crab apples, couldn't hide the fact that we were winter-bound.
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。