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A trotter is a pig's foot, especially when it has been cooked and is eaten as food. You will usually see it in the plural — pig's trotters, or just trotters — because they are served more than one at a time.
A trotter trotter這個字 is指的是 a pig's foot豬的腳 especially when it has been cooked and is eaten as food尤其是煮熟拿來吃的時候 You will usually see it in the plural你通常會看到它的複數形 pig's trotters, or just trotters pig's trotters,或直接說trotters because they are served more than one at a time因為端上桌通常不只一隻
This is old, cheap, warming food in Britain: the parts of the animal that poor families used because nothing was wasted. Boiled or slowly cooked, they go soft and sticky. In the last twenty years chefs have brought them back onto expensive menus, so the word can now sound either very old-fashioned or very fashionable, depending on where you read it.
This is老、便宜、暖胃 old, cheap, warming food in Britain這在英國是一種古老、便宜又暖胃的食物 the parts of the animal that poor families used那是窮困家庭會用的部位 because nothing was wasted因為什麼都不浪費 Boiled or slowly cooked水煮或慢燉之後 they go soft and sticky會變得軟軟黏黏的 In the last twenty years過去二十年 chefs have brought them back onto expensive menus廚師把它們帶回了高級菜單 so the word can now sound either very old-fashioned or very fashionable所以這個字現在聽起來可能很過時、也可能很時髦 depending on where you read it要看你是在哪裡看到它
For a student this is an easy idea with a strange word attached, because we eat this all the time — this is 豬腳. If you want to tell a British friend about 萬巒豬腳 or about the pork knuckle your grandmother makes, "pig's trotters" is the phrase that will make them see it.
For a Taiwanese student對台灣學生來說 this is an easy idea with a strange word attached這概念很簡單,只是配了個陌生的英文字 because we eat this all the time因為我們常常在吃這個 this is 豬腳這就是豬腳 If you want to tell a British friend about 萬巒豬腳 or about the pork knuckle your grandmother makes如果你想跟英國朋友介紹萬巒豬腳,或是你阿嬤做的豬腳 'pig's trotters' is the phrase that will make them see it「pig's trotters」就是能讓他們聽懂的說法
The word has other uses you may bump into: a horse that trots in racing is also called a trotter, and it can be a joking word for a person's own feet. But the food meaning is the one you will meet first.
The word has other uses you may bump into這個字還有其他你可能會遇到的用法 a horse that trots in racing is also called a trotter賽馬場上快步走的馬也叫trotter and it can be a joking word for a person's own feet也可以開玩笑用來指一個人自己的腳 But the food meaning但食物這個意思 is the one you will meet first是你最先會碰到的
組成trot (to run with quick short steps) + -er (the thing that does it). So a trotter is literally "the thing that trots" — the foot the animal runs on. English got there by naming the foot after the movement.
同家族的字
- trotthe same trot — the quick short-stepped run the foot does
- globetrotterthe same trot + -er: someone who trots around the globe
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。
Trottername
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A surname.
Trotternoun
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ball-gamesgameshobbiessomeone connected with Bolton Wanderers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
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slangball-gamesbasketballgamesA player for the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.
trotternoun
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One who trots.
- Charlie kept telling himself that Eddie Gillespie was the great runner, while he was just a quick trotter.
- ... empiricism “A lame cripple going along the right road can overtake a trotter if the latter is running along the wrong road. Moreover, the faster the trotter runs, once having lost the path, the further he lags behind the cripple”.[…]
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In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on opposite sides take a step together alternating with the other set of opposite legs; as opposed to a pacer.
- The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
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The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped, especially when prepared as meat.
- grange cookbook recipes for trotters
- Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements.
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slangA person's foot.
- Then you get up on your trotters, but you have a job to stand; / For the landscape 'round you totters and your collar's full of sand.
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historicalA tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders.
- One of these proprietors is a magistrate of Oxfordshire, another a justice of the peace for Berkshire, and Stewart, who was a tailor's trotter, originally, was lately high sherriff ^([sic]) of his county.
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。