2007年1月21日 星期日

一字多義_whip and poach

一字多義,常帶來文字的趣味,

如下例中的whip及 poach:

How can you whip cream without whips? Whipped cream isn’t whipped cream at all unless it’s been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn’t a poached egg unless it’s been stolen from the woods in the dead of night.

---Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

How can you whip cream without whips? Whipped cream isn’t whipped cream at all unless it’s been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn’t a poached egg unless it’s been stolen from the woods in the dead of night.

---Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

原來如此

whipped1: a food that is whipped has had air mixed into it, so it is very light.

whip2: to whip someone with a whip (鞭子)

poach1: to cook food such as eggs or fish in slightly boiling liquid

poach2: to illegally catch or shoot animals, or fish, especially from private land

   

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