pasta

pasta — 名詞

1. food formed from dough, then cut or shaped into pieces such as spaghetti or ravi

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釋義

義大利麵

用麵糰做成各種形狀的義式食物

food formed from dough, then cut or shaped into pieces such as spaghetti or ravioli, boiled, and often eaten with sauce

例句

Dad cooked pasta with tomato sauce after the football game.

爸爸在足球賽後煮了義大利麵，配番茄醬。

collocation: cook pasta with sauce

At lunch, Emma chose pasta instead of rice or bread.

午餐時，Emma 選了義大利麵，不選白飯或麵包。

同義詞
  • noodles

    a broader everyday word; noodles are not always Italian pasta

  • spaghetti

    one long, thin kind of pasta rather than the whole category

  • macaroni

    a specific short tube shape, not a general replacement in every context

文法句型

eat pasta

cook pasta

a bowl of pasta

fresh pasta

pastas on the menu

用法筆記

Usually uncountable when you mean the food in general: We had pasta for dinner. Countable use is more common for kinds or servings, especially on menus, as in three pastas or a seafood pasta.

常見錯誤

❌We ate a pasta for dinner.
✅We ate pasta for dinner.
💡Pasta is usually uncountable when you mean the food in general.
❌I like the pasta.
✅I like pasta.
💡Do not add the when you are talking about pasta in general.