| 单词 | chocolate |
| 释义 | chocolate (once / 607 pages) 1n 2n Chocolate needs little introduction or definition — it is world famous as a candy, dessert ingredient, hot drink, holiday gift, flavor, and common craving. Roasted cacao beans make chocolate. If you say, "I want chocolate," this usually means a candy bar or piece of chocolate, though chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream, and chocolate shakes all have chocolate as an ingredient. If someone tells you, "My living room is chocolate," don't get too excited — it means the walls are painted the same rich brown as the delicious treat. WORD FAMILYchocolate: chocolate-colored, chocolates USAGE EXAMPLESIf one needs to change 15 things, does one eat 15 pieces of chocolate? New York Times(Oct 18, 2016) “Just smell the page; they got that color by dunking it in chocolate, something like that.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) “It’s chocolate, it’s mint, it’s all the delicious together,” he says. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1n a food made from roasted ground cacao beans Hypo|Hyper baking chocolate, bitter chocolate, cooking chocolate pure unsweetened chocolate used in baking and icings and sauces and candy chocolate candycandy made with chocolate chocolate liquorthe liquid or paste that is produced when cocoa beans are roasted and ground; the basis of all chocolate cocoa butterthe vegetable fat from the cacao that is extracted from chocolate liquor; the basis for white chocolate cocoa powderthe powdery remains of chocolate liquor after cocoa butter is removed; used in baking and in low fat and low calorie recipes and as a flavoring for ice cream bittersweet chocolate, dark chocolate, semi-sweet chocolatechocolate liquor with cocoa butter and small amounts of sugar and vanilla; lecithin is usually added couverturechocolate that contains at least 32 percent cocoa butter milk chocolatechocolate made from chocolate liquor with sugar and cocoa butter and powdered milk solids and vanilla and (usually) lecithin; the most common form of chocolate for eating; used in chocolate candy and baking and coatings white chocolatea blend of cocoa butter and milk solids and sugar and vanilla; used in candy bars and baking and coatings; not technically chocolate because it contains no chocolate liquor choccolloquial British abbreviation chocolate bara bar of chocolate candy Dutch-processed cocoacocoa powder treated with a mild alkalizing agent (such as baking soda) jimmies, sprinklesbits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream nonpareila flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar chocolate kissa kiss that consists of a conical bite-sized piece of chocolate food, solid food any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment 2n a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot 2Syn|Hyper cocoa, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate beverage, drink, drinkable, potable any liquid suitable for drinking n a medium brown to dark-brown color Syn|Hyper burnt umber, coffee, deep brown, umber brown, brownness an orange of low brightness and saturation |
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