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/təˈmeɪtoʊ/ · /təˈmɑːtəʊ/
A round, soft, usually red fruit full of juice and seeds, eaten as a vegetable.
番茄
複數 tomatoes
核心畫面
Picture the round red thing on the chopping board: soft, full of juice, sliced into a salad or cooked down into sauce. it grows like a fruit, but in the kitchen and at the market everyone treats it as a vegetable.
可以想成：砧板上那顆圓圓紅紅的東西——軟、多汁，切片放進沙拉，或煮成醬。植物學上它算果實，但在廚房和市場裡，大家都把…更多收起
可以想成：砧板上那顆圓圓紅紅的東西——軟、多汁，切片放進沙拉，或煮成醬。植物學上它算果實，但在廚房和市場裡，大家都把它當蔬菜用。這個「學理上是水果、生活上是蔬菜」的落差，是英文課本很愛拿來討論的例子。原始詞典資料8 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。
tomatonoun/təˈmɑː.təʊ/
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A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
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The savory fruit of this plant, most often red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.
- He was chopping a tomato to put in the salad.
- He was eating a tomato when his boss called him.
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A shade of red, the colour typical of a ripe tomato.
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slangAn attractive woman.
- Deborah Harry, the New Wave goddess, is finally admitting -- after all the peroxide and posturing of the 1970's and 80's -- that she's really just a tomato (her word) from Paterson […].
- When she left the room, I asked Robert, “Who's the tomato?” “Marisa. She's from Mexico.” He had a telltale smile on his face.
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slangA stupid act or person.
tomatoadj/təˈmɑː.təʊ/
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Of a shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
- Her face is on the cover: the Anne Estelle Rice portrait – or the black-eyed Japanese-bobbed head-and-shoulders bit of it – and the square-yoked dress is tomato, or pomegranate, but never persimmon. If it stayed too long in the sun and faded, well yes, maybe then…
- And she’d slathered a heavy layer of foundation over the raw skin of her face with the end result being a complexion that was more tomato than orange.
tomatoverb/təˈmɑː.təʊ/
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rareTo pelt with tomatoes.
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rarecookingfoodlifestyleTo add tomatoes to (a dish).
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。