- The white, grainy stuff that makes food taste more flavorful is salt. You might sprinkle salt on your hot buttered popcorn to make it even more delicious.
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- n. 盐;
- adj. 咸味的;
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1. Pass the salt, please.
请把盐递过来。
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2. a pinch of salt (= a small amount of it)
一撮盐
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3. Season with salt and pepper.
放盐和胡椒粉调味。
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4. sea salt
海盐
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5. salted peanuts
咸花生米
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6. salt water
海水
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7. salt beef
腌牛肉
- SALT (n.) Cold War U.S.-U.S.S.R. nuclear weapons negotiations, 1968, acronym for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (which would make SALT talks redundant, but the last element sometimes also is understood as treaty).
- salt (n.) Old English sealt "salt" (n.; also as an adjective, "salty, briny"), from Proto-Germanic *saltom (source also of Old Saxon, Old Norse, Old Frisian, Gothic salt, Dutch zout, German Salz), from PIE root *sal- "salt."
- salt (v.) Old English sealtan, from Proto-Germanic *salto- (see salt (n.)), and in part from the noun. Related: Salted; salting.
salt ★ / sɔːlt ; sɒlt ; NAmE sɔːlt / noun , verb , adjective salt salts salted salting noun ★ 1 ★ [uncountable ] a white substance that is added to food to give it a better flavour or to preserve it. Saltis obtained from mines and is also found in sea water. It is sometimes called common saltto distinguish it from other chemical salts. 盐;食盐 SYN sodium chloride ◆ Pass the salt, please. 请把盐递过来。 ◆ a pinch of salt (= a small amount of it) 一撮盐 ◆ Season with salt and pepper. 放盐和胡椒粉调味。 ◆ sea salt 海盐 ☞see also rock salt 2 [countable ] ( chemistry 化 ) a chemical formed from a metal and an acid 盐(金属和酸组成的化学物质) ◆ mineral salts 矿盐 ☞see also Epsom salts 3 salts [plural ] a substance that looks or tastes like salt 形状(或味道)像盐的物质 ◆ bath salts (= used to give a pleasant smell to bath water) (放在洗澡水中使之芳香的)浴盐 ☞see also smelling salts IDIOM the salt of the ˈearth a very good and honest person that you can always depend on 世上的盐,地上的盐(指善良而信实的人) ☞more at dose n. , pinch n. , rub v. , worth adj. verb 1 [usually passive ] saltsth to put salt on or in food 在(食物)中放盐 ◆ salted peanuts 咸花生米 ◆ a pan of boiling salted water 一锅放了盐的开水 2 saltsth (down) to preserve food with salt 用盐腌制(食物) ◆ salted fish 咸鱼 3 saltsth to put salt on roads to melt ice or snow 把盐撒在路面上(以使冰雪融化) PHRASAL VERB ˌsalt sth↔aˈway to save sth for the future, secretly and usually dishonestly (通常指以欺瞒手段)秘密贮存 ◆ She salted away the profits in foreign bank accounts. 她把利润偷偷存在外国的银行账户上。 adjective [only before noun ] containing, tasting of or preserved with salt 含盐的;咸的;用盐腌制的 ◆ salt water 海水 ◆ salt beef 腌牛肉 salt / sɔːlt ; sɒlt ; NAmE sɔːlt /
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