2015年6月12日 星期五

盡信字典:chaser 例



I plucked bibs and bobs of turtle from between the top shell and underbelly. It was bitter, spicy in that classically Sichuanese way, and startlingly good. It was paired with a mouth-cooling chaser, a gazpacho of coconut milk and buoyant tapioca balls.


牛津大學詞典對chaser 的定義應該是錯誤的:http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/chaser?q=CHASER


gaz·pa·cho (gə-spä'chō, gəz-pä'-pronunciation

n.pl.-chos.
A chilled soup made with chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, peppers, and herbs.

[Spanish, probably of Mozarabic origin, akin to Spanish caspicias, remainders, worthless things.]


chaser

n.
  1. One that chases or pursues another: a chaser of criminals.
  2. A drink, as of beer or water, taken after hard liquor.
chasers something non alcoholic to drink as well as the hard liquor being consumed simultaneously.
coke = chaser to pretty much anything. coca cola and smirnoff

牛津大學辭典的解釋是獨排重義: informal A strong alcoholic drink taken after a weaker one:drinking pints of bitter with vodka chasers

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chaser - Wiktionary

chaser (plural chasers)
  1. A person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) that chases[from 14th c.]  [quotations ▼]
  2. Originally, a horse used for hunting; now, a horse trained for steeplechasing, a steeplechaser[from 14th c.]  [quotations ▼]
  3. (archaic) A hunter[from 15th c.]
  4. Someone who chases metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing. [from 18th c.]  [quotations ▼]
  5. A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads. [from 19th c.]  [quotations ▼]
  6. A mild drink consumed immediately after a drink of hard liquor[from 19th c.]  [quotations ▼]
  7. (Israel) A shot of hard liquor.
  8. (logging, obsolete) Someone that follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled - also called a frogger [quotations ▼]
  9. (logging) one who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.  [quotations ▼]
  10. One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
  11. (nautical) A chase gun.

  1. [名]
  2. 1
  3. (1)追っ手;追跡者[物];猟師,狩猟家.
  4. (2)追撃機;追撃砲(chase gun);駆潜艇(submarine chaser).
  5. 2 ((略式))チェーサー:強い酒のあとに飲む炭酸水または軽い酒.
  6. 3 ((主に英))《演劇》最後の幕[曲目].
  7. 4 ((米俗))女たらし.
  8. 5 ((俗))仕事のせきたて役.
  9. 6 障害レース用の競走馬.

A new hangover helper called "Chaser


來自萬景台保健食品及製藥廠的解酒茶。包裝袋上的解釋稱:“醒酒茶能激活溶解酒精的酵母,降低豪飲後的醉感,解酒,消除頭痛、頭暈、食慾不振和口嗅。”

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