1. 1無糖的、未加糖的(手搖飲的「無糖」;注意跟代糖的 sugar-free 不同,unsweetened 是「什麼都沒加」)

    Of food or drink: no sugar (or other sweetener) has been added. You see it on labels and menus — unsweetened tea, unsweetened yoghurt, unsweetened soy milk, unsweetened almond milk, unsweetened cocoa powder, unsweetened apple sauce. The important thing is that unsweetened is about what someone ADDED, not about how the thing tastes. Unsweetened apple juice still tastes sweet, because the sweetness was already in the apple; nobody put sugar in. So unsweetened is not the same as "not sweet", and it is not the same as "sugar-free" or "無糖" in the strict sense either — a sugar-free drink usually has an artificial sweetener in it, while an unsweetened one has nothing added at all. That difference matters when you read a label. In Taiwan this word is handy at drink shops: what we ask for as 無糖 is, in English, "unsweetened" or, more naturally when ordering, "no sugar". Baking cocoa and baking chocolate are also sold unsweetened, and eating a piece by mistake is a lesson you only need once — it is bitter.

組成un- (not) + sweetened. Sweetened = sweeten (to make sweet) + -ed; sweeten = sweet + -en, the ending that means "make it become".

同家族的字

  • sweetthe base word
  • sweetensweet + -en, to make sweet
  • widensame -en ending: to make wide
  • unsaltedthe same un- + past participle pattern on food labels

原始詞典資料2 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。

unsweetenedadj

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    Not sweetened.

    • “People need to consider other ways to reduce free sugars intake, such as consuming food with naturally occurring sugars, like fruit, or unsweetened food and beverages,” said Francesco Branca, the W.H.O. director for nutrition and food safety.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • unsweeten

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。