salad

名词 n.
/ˈsæl.ɪd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A food made primarily of one or more raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise. countable,uncountable
    — Lafeu. ’Twas a good lady, ’twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb. Clown. Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the salad, or rather, the herb of grace.
  2. A food made primarily of one or more raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.; Especially, such a mixture whose principal base is greens, most especially lettuce. countable,uncountable
    — romaine salad
  3. One or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads. countable,uncountable
    — sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment
  4. Any varied blend or mixture. countable,idiomatic,uncountable
    — Rebuffed by the Arabs and then the Iranians for trying to be part of them and their societies, Pakistan is just a hotchpotch salad of people supposedly bound together by the myth of Muslim 'Ummah'.
  5. Lettuce. UK,countable,uncountable
    — I prefer a little salad on my burger.

词形变化

salads plural sallet alternative

词源

PIE word
*sḗh₂l
From Middle English salade, from Old French salade, borrowed from Northern Italian salada, salata (compare insalata), from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (“salt”). Vegetables were seasoned with brine or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings during Roman times.
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