The food you put on top of other food — the cheese, mushrooms and ham on a pizza; the chocolate sauce, nuts and cherry on ice cream; the crumbly sweet layer on a fruit dessert. It is a countable noun, and it is very often plural, because you usually choose several: "What toppings do you want?" "Which toppings come with it?" A topping goes ON TOP and usually goes on near the end of cooking or after the cooking is finished.

The food食物 you put on top of other food放在其他食物上面的——the cheese, mushrooms and ham on a pizza披薩上的起司、蘑菇和火腿；the chocolate sauce, nuts and cherry on ice cream冰淇淋上的巧克力醬、堅果和櫻桃；the crumbly sweet layer水果甜點上那層 on a fruit dessert酥脆的甜層。It它 is a countable noun是個可數名詞，and it是而且 is very often plural很常用複數，because因為 you usually choose several你通常會選好幾種："What toppings do you want?"「你要什麼配料？」"Which toppings come with it?"「它附什麼配料？」A topping配料 goes ON TOP放在最上面 and usually goes on而且通常是加在 near the end of cooking快煮好的時候 or after the cooking is finished或煮完之後才加上去。

That is what separates it from an ingredient or a filling: an ingredient is mixed in, a filling is hidden inside, a topping is what you can see.

That那 is what separates it from就是它跟⋯不一樣的地方 an ingredient or a filling食材或內餡：an ingredient食材 is mixed in是被混進去的，a filling內餡 is hidden inside是藏在裡面的，a topping而配料 is what you can see則是看得到的那個。

This word is everywhere in shops and restaurants — pizza shops, bubble-tea shops, frozen-yogurt shops — so it is a very useful word to have ready.

This word這個字 is everywhere到處都是 in shops and restaurants在店家和餐廳裡——pizza shops披薩店、bubble-tea shops手搖飲店、frozen-yogurt shops優格店——so it is所以它是 a very useful word一個非常實用的字 to have ready要隨時準備好用的。

Two smaller uses: it is also the -ing form of the verb top ("topping the cake with cream"), and in old-fashioned British speech topping was an adjective meaning excellent, which now sounds like something from a hundred-year-old novel.

Two smaller uses還有兩個比較次要的用法：it它 is also the -ing form of the verb top也是動詞top的-ing形式（"topping the cake with cream"把奶油加在蛋糕上），and而且 in old-fashioned British speech在老派英式口語裡 topping曾經 was an adjective meaning excellent是個形容詞意思是「超讚」，which now這個用法現在 sounds like something聽起來就像 from a hundred-year-old novel百年前小說裡的東西。