喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˈwɪski/威士忌

    a strong alcoholic drink made from grain such as or corn; also a glass or serving of this drink.

    whisky 是用穀物（大麥、玉米、裸麥等）做成的烈酒，中文就叫「威士忌」。講這種酒本身的時候不可數（whisky is made from barley、a bottle of whisky），但在店裡點來喝的一杯是可數的：a whisky 就是「一杯威士忌」，兩杯是 two whiskies。這個字的來源可以想成蓋爾語的「生命之水」（uisge beatha），所以它常帶著一種老派、慢慢等待的感覺——酒要在木桶裡放好幾年才能賣。

    示範例句 · Example

    On the tour, we learned how whisky is made from barley, water, and time.

    中文翻譯在導覽中，我們學到威士忌是如何由大麥、水和時間製成的。

    常見搭配

    • malt whisky

      純麥威士忌

      whisky made only from malted barley

      Scotland is famous for its malt whisky.

    • blended whisky

      調和威士忌

      whisky made by mixing several different whiskies together

      Most of the bottles on the shelf were blended whisky.

    • Scotch whisky

      蘇格蘭威士忌

      whisky made in Scotland

      By law, Scotch whisky must be made in Scotland.

    • a bottle of whisky

      一瓶威士忌

      one whole container of whisky

      He brought a bottle of whisky as a gift for his host.

    • a glass of whisky

      一杯威士忌

      one glass filled with whisky

      There was a glass of whisky on the table, still untouched.

    • whisky distillery

      威士忌酒廠

      a factory where whisky is made

      The whisky distillery has been open to visitors since 1990.

    意思相近

    whiskeyScotch

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

Variant of usque, short for usquebaugh, from Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha 'water of life', a calque of Medieval Latin aqua vitae.

源自蘇格蘭蓋爾語 uisge-beatha「生命之水」。

Wiktionary

You can picture whisky as grain turned into fire: or corn is fermented and then distilled, so what is left in the glass is much stronger than beer. The same word covers both the liquid in general and one glass of it — you can buy whisky, or order a whisky.

穀物變成了火。大麥、玉米這類穀物先發酵，再經過蒸餾把水分抽掉、把酒精濃縮起來，所以杯子裡剩下的東西比啤酒烈得多。這個字有一個很方便的地方：它同時指「這種酒」這個東西本身，也指「一杯這種酒」——講 I don't drink whisky 是在講整類酒，講 Two whiskies, please 就是在點兩杯。拼法上也順帶記一下：蘇格蘭、加拿大、日本多寫 whisky，愛爾蘭和美國多寫 whiskey。

同家族的字

whiskies / whiskeys

意思相近

whiskeyScotch

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。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。