pie

pie — 名詞

1. a food with pastry around a sweet or savory filling, baked as one dish

1.名詞B1
釋義

派

外有酥皮、內有餡料的烘烤食物

a food with pastry around a sweet or savory filling, baked as one dish

例句

Grandma baked an apple pie for the family picnic by the lake.

奶奶為一家人去湖邊野餐烤了一個蘋果派。

collocation: apple pie

A hot chicken pie waited on the table after the football match.

足球賽後，桌上放著一個熱騰騰的雞肉派。

savory filling: chicken pie

同義詞
  • tart

    often flatter and more often open on top, especially when sweet

  • quiche

    a savory pie with an egg filling, so it is more specific

  • turnover

    a smaller folded pastry, often meant for one person

文法句型

apple pie

chicken pie

a slice of pie

用法筆記

Often used with the filling name before it, as in 'apple pie' or 'meat pie'. The dish may be sweet or savory, unlike sense 2, which means pizza in regional American use.

常見錯誤

❌I ate one pie of apple.
✅I ate an apple pie.
💡English normally puts the filling before 'pie'.

2. an informal regional word for a full pizza in the northeastern United States

2.名詞
釋義

披薩

整個披薩的美式口語說法

an informal regional word for a full pizza in the northeastern United States

例句

Two friends ordered a large pie with mushrooms at the station pizza counter.

兩個朋友在車站的披薩櫃台點了一個加蘑菇的大披薩。

regional informal use: pie = pizza

The cook slid another pie into the brick oven near the window.

廚師把另一個披薩推進窗邊的磚窯裡。

同義詞
  • pizza

    the standard and much more widely used word

  • whole pizza

    makes the size clear when one pie means the full round dish

文法句型

order a pie

a large pie

one pie feeds four

用法筆記

Common in informal American English, especially in the Northeast. Distinguish from sense 1: this use means pizza, not a baked pastry dish.

常見錯誤

❌We shared two pies at lunch
✅We shared two slices of pizza at lunch.
💡in this sense, 'pie' usually means a whole pizza, not one piece.

3. the letters used as a short form for Proto-Indo-European, an ancient earlier lan

3.名詞
釋義

印歐祖語

原始印歐語的縮寫說法

the letters used as a short form for Proto-Indo-European, an ancient earlier language behind many European and some Asian languages

例句

The class notes say PIE is the parent of many European languages.

課堂筆記寫著，PIE 是許多歐洲語言共同的祖先語言。

abbreviation: PIE = Proto-Indo-European

Our teacher wrote PIE above Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit on the board.

老師在黑板上把 PIE 寫在 Greek、Latin 和 Sanskrit 的上方。

同義詞

文法句型

study PIE

PIE roots

PIE sound change

用法筆記

Written in capital letters and mainly used in linguistics. In full form, people usually write or say 'Proto-Indo-European' instead.

常見錯誤

❌PIE was spoken in Rome.
✅Latin was spoken in Rome; PIE is a much earlier reconstructed language.
💡PIE names a parent language, not historical Latin.

pie — 動詞