butter

英 ['b?t?] 美['b?t?]

近義詞yellow

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第三人稱單數:?butters;過去式:?buttered;過去分詞:?buttered;現在分詞:?buttering;

1. 音譯“白脫、白脫油”。

butter 黃油

bu, 牛，同bovine. 指牛奶加工后的產物。

butter: butter: [OE] The ultimate source of butter is Greek boútūron. This is usually said to be a compound noun, formed from boús ‘cow’ and tūros ‘cheese’, but not all etymologists accept the admittedly attractive hypothesis that butter was once ‘cow-cheese’, preferring to see the Greek word as a foreign borrowing. In Latin it became būtyrum (from which came French beurre), which was borrowed into the West Germanic languages, producing English and German butter and Dutch boter.
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butter (n.): Old English butere "butter," general West Germanic (compare Old Frisian, Old High German butera, German Butter, Dutch boter), an early loan-word from Latin butyrum "butter" (source of Italian burro, Old French burre, French beurre), from Greek boutyron, perhaps literally "cow-cheese," from bous "ox, cow" (see cow (n.)) + tyros "cheese" (see tyrosine); but this might be a folk etymology of a Scythian word.

The product was used from an early date in India, Iran and northern Europe, but not in ancient Greece and Rome. Herodotus described it (along with cannabis) among the oddities of the Scythians. Butter-knife attested from 1818.
butter (v.): Old English buterian "spread butter on," from the same source as butter (n.). Figurative meaning "to flatter lavishly" is by 1798 (with up (adv.), in Connelly's Spanish-English dictionary, p.413). Related: Buttered; buttering.

1. Butter, margarine, and oily fish are all good sources of vitamin D.: 黃油、人造黃油和多脂魚都含有豐富的維生素D。

2. Blend the butter with the sugar and beat until light and creamy.: 把糖摻入黃油然后攪拌至滑軟細膩。

3. As a hangover from rationing, they mixed butter and margarine.: 作為食品配給制的一種遺留影響，他們總把黃油和人造黃油混在一起吃。

4. Sunflower margarine has the same fat content as butter.: 向日葵所制人造黃油的脂肪含量與黃油脂肪含量相同。