喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture the plant side of a meal: carrots, cabbage, peas — things that grew in the ground and end up on the plate. From that, the word can also work as a label meaning 'made from plants rather than from animals or minerals'.

可以想成：一餐裡屬於植物的那一半——紅蘿蔔、高麗菜、豌豆，從土裡長出來、最後上了餐桌的東西。從這個畫面出發，這個字也…更多收起可以想成：一餐裡屬於植物的那一半——紅蘿蔔、高麗菜、豌豆，從土裡長出來、最後上了餐桌的東西。從這個畫面出發，這個字也可以當標籤用，表示「原料來自植物，而不是動物或礦物」。

From the picture

已經不使用的舊稱呼

這是舊時代把重度腦傷者比作植物的說法。它跟前面的畫面有關聯，但今天已經不再這樣用人了。

brain-injured person (dated, offensive) · noun · B2

an old and unkind word for a person who is alive but cannot move or speak because their brain has been hurt. People do not use this word today.

（舊時對腦傷病人的不禮貌說法）

Also in this word

edible plant · noun · A1

a plant that people eat, cooked or raw, like a carrot, a cabbage, or peas.

蔬菜

plant-based · adjective · A2

made from plants, or used for growing plants.

植物（做）的；蔬菜的

原始詞典資料7 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。

vegetablenoun/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/

  • 1

    archaicAny plant.

    • That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.
    • The first of the tall trees was reached, and by the bearings proved the wrong one. So with the second. The third rose nearly two hundred feet into the air above a clump of underwood — a giant of a vegetable, with a red column as big as a cottage, and a wide shadow around in which a company could have manoeuvred.
  • 2

    A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense, and usually including non-plants lumped into the same culinary category, such as edible mushrooms and seaweed.

    • It’s true that agriculture at the time was organic, food was locally produced and there were no ultraprocessed foods. But fresh fruits and vegetables were in short supply because they were difficult to ship and because growing seasons were so short.
  • 3

    The edible part of such a plant.

  • 4

    derogatoryA person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.

  • 5

    historicalslangA mine (explosive device).

vegetableadj/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/

  • 1

    Of or relating to plants.

    • This substance is vegetable, not mineral.
    • On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.
  • 2

    Of or relating to vegetables.

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。