薄荷香氣：mint有幾種意思

Fine, but they can't smell it on your breath, So eat a mint after.

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——2 Broke Girls

隨你吧，不過不能讓人家聞到酒味，等會吃顆薄荷糖吧。

——《破產姐妹》

一、你知道mint有幾種含義嗎？

n.

1.薄荷 [U] a plant with dark green leaves that have a fresh smell and taste and are added to food and drinks to give flavour, and used in cooking as a herb and to decorate food

Sage, mint and dill are all herbs.

鼠尾草、薄荷、蒔蘿均爲藥草。

2.大量；巨（款） [C] a large amount of money

He has a mint of money.

他有大量的錢。

3.造幣廠 [U] a place where money is made

The mint coins millions of nickels and dimes each year.

造幣廠每年都要鑄數以百萬計的分幣和角幣。

v.

鑄造，鑄幣 [T] to make a coin from metal

The Romans learned to mint from the Greeks.

羅馬人從希臘人那裏學會了鑄造錢幣。

二、你知道mint和哪些詞更搭嗎？

lemon mint

檸檬香蜂草

water mint

水生薄荷

corn mint

n. 薄荷

mint julep

n. <美> 薄荷朱利酒(白蘭地加冰塊,砂糖及薄荷所調成的飲料)

 

三、最後，做個填詞遊戲吧

 I decorated the fruit salad with a sprig of _____.
我用小薄荷枝裝點水果色拉。