doughnut
doughnut — 名詞
1. A small, sweet cake made from fried dough, often ring-shaped and sometimes stuff
甜甜圈
油炸的環形甜麵糕點
A small, sweet cake made from fried dough, often ring-shaped and sometimes stuffed with jam, custard, or cream.
Esme bought a box of glazed doughnuts from the new bakery in town.
Esme 在鎮上的新麵包店買了一盒糖霜甜甜圈。
common collocation: glazed doughnuts
The café near the station serves warm doughnuts with chocolate sauce.
車站附近的咖啡館供應淋上巧克力醬的溫熱甜甜圈。
collocation: warm doughnuts with [topping]
On Saturday mornings, Wei and his daughter like to share a jam-filled doughnut.
每到週六早上，Wei 和女兒會一起分享一個果醬夾心甜甜圈。
Nila bit into the doughnut and custard spilled onto her plate.
Nila 咬了一口甜甜圈，卡士達醬便流到了她的盤子上。
- donut
informal spelling variant, very common in American English signage and menus
文法句型
adjective + doughnut
doughnut + with [filling]
jam/glazed/chocolate doughnut
常見錯誤
2. A soft, ring-shaped cushion that you wrap your hair around to create a round, ra
甜甜圈髮髻
用來做出圓形髮髻的環形軟墊
A soft, ring-shaped cushion that you wrap your hair around to create a round, raised bun hairstyle.
Antonia used a hair doughnut to make her bun look bigger and neater.
Antonia 用了一個頭髮甜甜圈，讓她的髮髻看起來更大更整齊。
collocation: hair doughnut
You can buy a doughnut for your hair at most beauty supply stores.
在大多數美妝用品店都能買到做髮髻用的甜甜圈。
prepositional phrase: doughnut for [body part]
Ritu twisted her ponytail around the doughnut to form a perfect ballerina bun.
Ritu 將她的馬尾辮繞在甜甜圈上，做出一個完美的芭蕾舞者髮髻。
A fabric doughnut works better than a sock for holding thick hair in place.
布質的甜甜圈比襪子更適合用來固定濃密的頭髮。
- bun shaper
alternative name focusing on the function rather than the shape
- hair donut
common informal spelling variant of the same product
文法句型
hair doughnut
doughnut + bun
use a doughnut for [hairstyle]
用法筆記
The hair doughnut is a fabric cushion, not an actual food item. It is often called a 'bun shaper' or 'bun maker' in shops.
3. A driving trick in which a car spins in a tight circle, leaving a ring-shaped sk
甩尾打轉
車輛原地旋轉一圈的駕駛特技
A driving trick in which a car spins in a tight circle, leaving a ring-shaped skid mark on the road or ground.
The driver lost control, doing a doughnut in the middle of the empty parking lot.
那名駕駛失控，在空無一人的停車場中央甩了一個甜甜圈。
common verb collocation: do a doughnut
Omar watched a video of a rally driver pulling perfect doughnuts on a dirt track.
Omar 看了一段拉力賽車手在泥土賽道上完美甩尾打轉的影片。
verb collocation: pull a doughnut
Pulling a doughnut too fast can damage the car's tyres and suspension.
甩尾打轉如果速度太快，可能會損壞汽車的輪胎和懸吊系統。
The police found skid marks on the road where someone had done a doughnut overnight.
警方在路上發現一圈輪胎痕，顯然有人深夜在這裡甩尾打轉。
- donut
same spelling variant as the food; equally common in informal driving contexts
- 360-degree skid
more technical and descriptive; less idiomatic
文法句型
do a doughnut
pull a doughnut
用法筆記
Almost always used with the verbs 'do' or 'pull'. In British English, this maneuver is more commonly called 'doing a doughnut' than any alternative name.
4. Any object or shape that is round with a hole through the middle, similar in for
環面；環狀物
中間有孔的環形物體或數學形狀
Any object or shape that is round with a hole through the middle, similar in form to a ring or a torus.
In geometry class, the students learned that a torus is a doughnut-shaped surface.
在幾何課上，學生學到環面就是一種甜甜圈形狀的表面。
compound adjective: doughnut-shaped
The particle accelerator has a massive doughnut-shaped tunnel that stretches for miles underground.
這座粒子加速器有一個巨大的甜甜圈形隧道，在地底延伸數英里。
Engineers designed a doughnut of concrete and steel to support the pressure in the reactor.
工程師設計了一個混凝土和鋼鐵製成的環狀結構，來承受反應爐內的壓力。
Astronomers observed a glowing doughnut of gas and dust surrounding the black hole.
天文學家觀察到黑洞周圍有一圈發光的氣體與塵埃環。
文法句型
doughnut-shaped
doughnut of [material]
用法筆記
In everyday speech, this sense is rare. Most people use 'doughnut' to mean the food (sense 1). The technical meaning appears mainly in mathematics, physics, and engineering writing.