soup
soup — 名詞
1. a warm or hot liquid dish made by cooking meat, vegetables, fish, or grains in w
湯
用肉、蔬菜等熬煮的液體食物
a warm or hot liquid dish made by cooking meat, vegetables, fish, or grains in water or flavoured cooking liquid until their flavours blend together.
On cold winter nights, Wren enjoys a bowl of hot chicken soup with noodles.
在寒冷的冬夜裡，Wren 喜歡喝一碗熱騰騰的雞湯麵。
collocation: bowl of soup / chicken soup
The chef simmered the vegetable soup for two hours to bring out the flavour.
主廚將蔬菜湯小火慢煮了兩小時，讓味道充分釋放出來。
Lucía added too much salt to the soup and used potato slices to absorb it.
Lucía 在湯裡加了太多鹽，所以她放了幾片馬鈴薯來吸收多餘的鹽分。
My grandmother's tomato soup recipe uses fresh basil and a little cream.
我奶奶的番茄湯食譜用了新鮮羅勒和少許鮮奶油。
For a light evening meal, Aisha often makes a pot of vegetable soup with fresh bread.
Aisha 經常煮一鍋蔬菜湯搭配新鮮麵包，當成一頓清淡的晚餐。
- broth
a thin, clear soup made by simmering meat or vegetables, often used as a base for other soups
- stew
thicker than soup, with larger chunks of meat and vegetables and less liquid
- chowder
a thick soup containing fish, seafood, or corn, often made with milk or cream
- bisque
a smooth, creamy soup usually made from shellfish
文法句型
a bowl/cup of soup
[type] soup
用法筆記
Most commonly uncountable (some soup, a lot of soup), but countable when referring to specific varieties (three soups of the day).
常見錯誤
2. any substance that has a thick, wet consistency similar to that of liquid food,
濃稠液體
像湯一樣濃稠的液體物質
any substance that has a thick, wet consistency similar to that of liquid food, such as fog, mud, or a chemical mixture.
A thick soup of fog covered the harbour, making it hard for ships to dock.
一團濃稠的霧像湯一樣籠罩著港口，船隻難以靠岸。
metaphor: a soup of fog
The rain turned the dirt road into a muddy soup that splashed onto our boots.
雨水把泥土路變成了泥濘的濃湯，濺到我們的靴子上。
The melting snow turned the hiking trail into a cold soup of mud and gravel.
融雪把登山步道變成了一灘冰冷又泥濘的濃湯。
Vikram found the old pond had become a green soup of algae by late summer.
Vikram 發現那口老池塘到了夏末已經變成了一池綠色的藻類濃湯。
文法句型
a soup of [substance]
[adjective] soup
用法筆記
Used descriptively to give a vivid image of a thick, often unpleasant liquid mixture. Not a technical term — it is a figurative extension of sense 1.
3. a messy collection of ideas, things, or parts that are mixed together and hard t
混亂
由許多事物混雜而成的混亂狀態
a messy collection of ideas, things, or parts that are mixed together and hard to separate or make sense of.
His essay was a soup of unrelated ideas with no clear argument or direction.
他的文章就像一鍋混雜著不相關想法的大雜燴，完全沒有清楚的論點。
metaphor: a soup of [unrelated things]
The meeting turned into a soup of complaints, with nobody agreeing on a plan.
會議變成了一場混亂的抱怨大會，沒有人同意該怎麼做。
The film's plot was a confusing soup of time travel and dream sequences.
那部電影的情節是時空旅行和夢境片段攪在一起的大混湯。
Xiu's desktop folder was a soup of documents with no clear filing system.
Xiu 的桌面資料夾裡文件亂成一鍋粥，完全沒有分類系統。
- mishmash
a confused mixture of things; more informal and often implies low quality
- jumble
an untidy collection of things; can refer to physical objects or ideas
- hodgepodge
a mixed collection of different things; similar to mishmash but more common in American English
- order
a state where things are arranged neatly or logically
文法句型
a soup of [plural noun]
用法筆記
Always used figuratively. Unlike sense 1, which refers to actual liquid food, this sense describes abstract mixtures of ideas or spoken content.
4. the mixture of organic chemicals and water that scientists believe existed on th
原始湯
生命出現前地球上的化學混合物
the mixture of organic chemicals and water that scientists believe existed on the early Earth before any form of life appeared. The first living cells may have developed from this mixture.
The experiment tried to recreate the conditions of the primordial soup inside a glass flask.
該實驗試圖在玻璃燒瓶中重現原始湯的環境條件。
domain: primordial soup in origin-of-life theories
Some scientists think life formed in the warm primordial soup of ancient oceans.
有些科學家認為，生命最初是在遠古海洋溫暖的原始湯中形成的。
Chemists think the first cells formed in the warm primordial soup of early oceans, after millions of years of mixing.
化學家認為，第一批細胞是在遠古海洋溫暖的原始湯中形成的，經過了數百萬年的混合作用。
Scientists used electric sparks to test whether amino acids could form in primordial soup.
科學家在實驗室中用電火花模擬閃電，測試原始湯中能否產生胺基酸。
文法句型
primordial soup
用法筆記
Almost always used with the adjective 'primordial' as part of the fixed scientific term 'primordial soup'. Avoid using 'soup' alone for this meaning.
5. a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation — used almost exclusively in
困境
麻煩或困難的處境
a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation — used almost exclusively in the fixed expression 'in the soup'.
When Brian forgot his wife's birthday, he was really in the soup.
Brian 忘了太太的生日，這下他可麻煩大了。
idiom: in the soup = in trouble
The company landed in the soup after the manager was caught stealing money.
經理偷錢被抓到之後，公司就陷入了困境。
Lin knew she would be in the soup if she did not finish the sales report before the Monday meeting.
Lin 知道如果她在週一會議前交不出銷售報告，她的麻煩就大了。
The politician found himself in the soup when his speech went viral online.
那位政治人物的演講影片在網路上瘋傳之後，他便陷入了麻煩。
文法句型
be in the soup
land/get in the soup
用法筆記
This sense only appears in the fixed phrase 'in the soup'. Do not use 'soup' alone or with other prepositions to mean trouble. More common in British English than American English.