| 单词 | pickle |
| 释义 | pickle From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishFood, dishpicklepick‧le1 /ˈpɪkəl/ noun1 [countable, uncountable] British EnglishDFF a thick cold sauce that is made from pieces of vegetables preserved in vinegar. It is usually eaten with cold meat or cheesecheese and pickle sandwichesa selection of cold meats and pickles2 [countable] American EnglishDFF a cucumber preserved in vinegar or salt water, or a piece of this SYN gherkin British English3 → be in a (pretty) pickleExamples from the Corpuspickle• I thought I knew enough about eating a pickle without doing any fancy research.• He was likely in a pickle, what with Uncle Dan being ill and just one maid left to do the lot.• Dill and pickles, for example, are a strange combination, as is horseradish and roast beef.• They shared George's ham and pickle rolls and Leon's dry vanilla-tasting cake and chocolate.• a dill pickle• Corned beef is prepared by the curing of brisket, plate, and rump cuts from fairly high-grade beef carcasses in pickle.• This I corrected in a grocery store, piled with butter and big cheeses and shelves of pickles and bread.• At both lunch and dinner, a small salad, miso soup, pickles and rice are included.• Since then she had learned that pickle or sauce was a very rare treat.Cookingpicklepickle2 verb [transitive]DFCto preserve food in vinegar or salt water→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuspickle• This is avidly collected by the locals as it is delicious boiled and pickled.• I had been resisting the whole idea of focus groups-when you went out and talked to pickle eaters.• I wondered if there might be a pickled heart tucked in among all the livers, kidneys, and spleens.• Green olives have to be treated in a soda solution to soften them before they are ready for pickling in brine.• We're pickled in our own solution.• Smell of beer and pickled meat.• pickled onions• From my childhood I remember being told that the way to improve your conkers was to pickle them in vinegar.Origin pickle1 (1300-1400) Probably from Middle Dutch pekel, peekel |
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