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单词 chocolate
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chocolate

noun
 
/ˈtʃɒklət/
/ˈtʃɔːklət/
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  1.  
    [uncountable] a hard brown sweet food made from cocoa beans, used in cooking to add taste to cakes, etc. or eaten as a sweet
    • a chocolate bar
    • chocolate chip cookies
    • a chocolate cake
    • a chocolate factory
    • a bar/piece of chocolate
    • strawberries dipped in chocolate
    see also dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolateTopics Fooda1
    Extra Examples
    • He broke off a few squares of chocolate.
    • Melt 100g of cooking chocolate in a basin over hot water.
    • She broke a bar of chocolate into four pieces.
    • Stir until the chocolate has melted.
    • a box of brazil nuts coated in chocolate
    • chocolate chip cookies
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • dark
    • plain
    • unsweetened
    … of chocolate
    • bar
    • slab
    • bit
    verb + chocolate
    • break
    • break up
    • grate
    chocolate + verb
    • melt
    chocolate + noun
    • bar
    • chip
    • chunk
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  2.  
    [countable] a sweet that is made of or covered with chocolate
    • I gave her a box of hand-made Belgian chocolates.
    • Would you like another chocolate?
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • soft-centred
    • handmade
    … of chocolates
    • box
    chocolate + noun
    • box
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  3. [uncountable, countable] (British English)
    (also hot chocolate British and North American English)
    a drink made by mixing chocolate powder with hot water or milk; a cup of this drink
    • a mug of drinking chocolate
    compare cocoa
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • hot
    • steaming
    • drinking
    … of chocolate
    • cup
    • mug
    verb + chocolate
    • drink
    • sip
    See full entry
  4. [uncountable] a dark brown colourTopics Colours and Shapesb2
  5. Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘a drink made with chocolate’): from French chocolat or Spanish chocolate, from Nahuatl chocolatl ‘food made from cacao seeds’, influenced by unrelated cacaua-atl ‘drink made from cacao’.
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