n.
- (食用)糖[U]
- 方糖[C]
- 【化】糖(如葡萄糖,乳糖等)[U][C]
- 糖罐[C]
- 甜言蜜語
- 【美】【俚】錢
- 【美】【口】(表示親熱的稱呼)親愛的;寶貝
- 【俚】毒品
vt.
- 加糖於;使甜
Did you
sugar my coffee?
你在我的咖啡裡放過糖了嗎?
- 使容易被接受;粉飾[(+up/over)]
His talk was
sugared with funny jokes.
他的講話中攙進了一些有趣的笑話。
vi.
- 製成槭糖;形成糖
- 【英】【俚】偷懶
衍生
辨析
n.
- a sweet crystalline substance obtained especially from sugar cane and sugar beet, consisting essentially of sucrose and used as a sweetener in food and drink.
- Biochemistry any of the class of soluble, crystalline, typically sweet-tasting carbohydrates found in living tissues and exemplified by glucose and sucrose.
- informal, chiefly N. Amer. used as a term of endearment.
- informal a narcotic drug, especially heroin or LSD.
v.
- sweeten, sprinkle, or coat with sugar.
▸make more agreeable or palatable.
-
[as noun sugaring]
a method of removing unwanted hair by applying a mixture of lemon juice, sugar, and water to the skin and then peeling it off together with the hair.
-
[as noun sugaring]
N. Amer. the boiling down of maple sap until it thickens into syrup or crystallizes into sugar.
-
[usu. as noun sugaring]
Entomology spread a sugar mixture on a tree trunk in order to catch moths.
Derivative
Etymology
ME: from OFr. sukere, from Ital. zucchero, prob. via med. L. from Arab. sukkar.