- 1香艾酒、苦艾酒（調馬丁尼、內格羅尼用的加味葡萄酒）
A wine that has been with herbs, roots and , and made a little stronger with added alcohol. It comes in two main styles: dry vermouth, which is pale and not sweet, and sweet vermouth, which is reddish-brown and rich. Italy and France are the traditional homes of it. People rarely drink much of it on its own — its real job is in cocktails, where a small amount does a lot of work. A martini is gin (or vodka) with dry vermouth; a Manhattan is whisky with sweet vermouth; a Negroni uses sweet vermouth too. That said, in Spain and Italy a glass of vermouth over ice with a slice of orange, before dinner, is a normal and pleasant thing. It is an uncountable noun for the drink itself ('a bottle of vermouth', 'add some vermouth'), though in a bar you can order 'a vermouth' meaning a glass of it. English speakers say it two ways — ver-MOOTH is usual in Britain, ver-MOOTH or VER-mooth both turn up in America — and either will be understood. Once opened, a bottle should live in the fridge and be drunk within a couple of months; unlike spirits, it is wine, and it goes stale.
組成From French vermout, from German Wermut 'wormwood' — the bitter plant originally used to flavour it. It is a doublet of the English word wormwood: the same word, arriving by two different roads.
同家族的字
- wormwoodthe same original German/Germanic word Wermut, borrowed straight into English as wormwood and again via French as vermouth
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。
vermouthnoun/vəˈmuːθ/
- 1
A dry, or sweet apéritif wine flavored with aromatic herbs, and often used in mixed drinks.
- He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.
- Vermouth originated in the 18th century, when wine growers in the foothills of the French and Italian Alps developed a method of enhancing the taste of sour or uncompromising wines with the infusion of a variety of sweeteners, spices, herbs, roots, seeds, flowers, and peel.
- 2
A serving of vermouth.
- As we sat over our vermuths he glorified the Company’s business, and by-and-by I expressed casually my surprise at him not going out there.
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