dairy
dairy — 名詞
1. a building, farm, or business where milk is collected, stored, and turned into p
酪農場；乳廠
收集並加工牛奶的場所或公司
a building, farm, or business where milk is collected, stored, and turned into products such as butter, cheese, or yogurt for sale
Nora's family runs a small dairy that delivers milk to local shops every morning.
Nora 家裡經營一家小型乳品廠，每天早上把牛奶送到附近的商店。
countable: a dairy = a business or farm
The dairy outside town produces cheese that is sold all over the country.
郊外的酪農場生產的起司銷售到全國各地。
Tuan works at a dairy where they bottle fresh milk every day.
Tuan 在一家乳品廠工作，每天負責將鮮奶裝瓶。
Élise took over the family dairy and expanded it to sell yogurt and butter.
Élise 接手了家族的酪農場，並且擴展業務來生產優格和奶油。
- creamery
specifically a place where butter and cheese are made, often larger than a farm dairy
- dairy farm
focuses on the farmland and raising cows, not the processing side
- milk plant
a large industrial processing facility, more technical in tone
文法句型
a dairy
at a dairy
dairy + noun (compound)
用法筆記
Countable noun. Often appears in compounds like dairy farm (the agricultural land) and dairy farmer (the person who runs it).
常見錯誤
2. all foods and drinks produced from milk, for example cream, yogurt, and cheese
乳製品
以牛奶製成的食物，如奶油、起司
all foods and drinks produced from milk, for example cream, yogurt, and cheese
Jisoo stopped eating dairy after she discovered she was lactose intolerant.
Jisoo 發現自己有乳糖不耐症之後就不再吃乳製品了。
uncountable: dairy = food category; collocation: stop eating dairy
Renata always checks food labels to see if they contain dairy.
Renata 總是檢查食品標籤，看裡面有沒有含乳製品。
Amani added more dairy to her diet to get enough calcium for strong bones.
Amani 在飲食中加入更多乳製品，以攝取足夠的鈣質來強健骨骼。
Matthew's doctor told him to eat less dairy to lower his cholesterol level.
Matthew 的醫生建議他少吃乳製品來降低膽固醇。
- milk products
slightly more formal, interchangeable in most contexts
- dairy products
the full form, often used on food labels and in health writing
- dairy foods
emphasises the food category rather than the commercial product
文法句型
eat + dairy
avoid + dairy
contain + dairy
用法筆記
Uncountable when used as a category of food (I don't eat dairy). Do not use with a or an — a dairy refers to the place sense (noun/1).
常見錯誤
dairy — 形容詞
1. related to cows kept to give milk rather than killed for meat, or describing foo
乳品；產乳
與產乳動物或乳製品相關的
related to cows kept to give milk rather than killed for meat, or describing foods produced from milk
Anna works on a dairy farm where they milk over one hundred cows daily.
Anna 在一座乳牛場工作，那裡每天要擠一百多頭牛的奶。
attributive: dairy + noun (dairy farm, dairy cow, dairy product)
Tamar keeps dairy goats and sells their milk to local cheese makers.
Tamar 飼養產乳山羊，並把羊奶賣給當地的起司師傅。
Ravindra's family switched to plant-based alternatives for all dairy products.
Ravindra 一家改用植物性替代品來取代所有乳製品。
Defne grew up on a dairy farm and learned to make butter at age ten.
Defne 在乳牛場長大，十歲就學會了做奶油。
- milk-producing
more explicit about the production aspect, usually for animals or farms
- lactating
used for female mammals currently producing milk, more biological
- milking
describes the action rather than the category, e.g. milking herd
- beef
describes cows raised for meat rather than milk, e.g. beef cattle vs dairy cattle
文法句型
dairy + noun (dairy cow / dairy farm / dairy product)
用法筆記
Only used before a noun (attributive position). Common in fixed compounds: dairy cow (a cow bred for milk), dairy product (food made from milk), dairy industry (the commercial sector).