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some spinach
菠菜作蔬菜时通常为不可数名词。
I need to buy some spinach for the soup.
我需要买些菠菜做汤。
菠菜
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
菠菜
a leafy green vegetable with dark green edible leaves
I need to buy some spinach for the soup.
我需要买些菠菜做汤。
一种可食用植物,菠菜(Spinacia oleracea)或其叶子。
A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea, or its leaves.
西南亚植物,广泛栽培,叶子多汁可食用
southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves
多种类似菠菜或用作绿叶菜的植物或其叶子。
Any of numerous plants, or their leaves, which are used for greens in the same way Spinacia oleracea is or resemble it in some way.
深绿色叶子；可煮熟或生吃用于沙拉
dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads
I bought some fresh spinach at the market for tonight's salad.
我在市场买了一些新鲜菠菜，用来做今晚的沙拉。
Spinach is rich in iron and other vitamins.
菠菜富含铁和其他维生素。
She likes to add spinach to her smoothies for extra nutrition.
她喜欢在冰沙里加菠菜来增加营养。
菠菜作蔬菜时通常为不可数名词。
I need to buy some spinach for the soup.
我需要买些菠菜做汤。
表示‘一捆’时用 a bunch of。
The recipe calls for a bunch of spinach.
这个食谱需要一捆菠菜。
spinach 可直接用作定语修饰名词。
These spinach leaves are fresh.
这些菠菜叶很新鲜。
eat spinach 为常见动宾搭配，也可说 have spinach。
Children often refuse to eat spinach.
孩子们常常拒绝吃菠菜。
Not this
I ordered a pizza with spinich on top.
Use this
I ordered a pizza with spinach on top.
Spinach 的正确拼写是 s-p-i-n-a-c-h，其中第 5 个字母是 a，而不是 i。拼写错误 spinich 常见于学习者，需牢记 -ach 的拼写。
Not this
I'll have a spinach, please.
Use this
I'll have some spinach, please.
Spinach 作食物讲时是不可数名词，不能用不定冠词 a 直接修饰。表示“一些菠菜”应使用 some，或加量词 a bunch of / a handful of。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
嫩菠菜
I bought a bag of baby spinach for the salad.
我买了一袋嫩菠菜做沙拉。
新鲜菠菜
Fresh spinach tastes great in a smoothie.
新鲜菠菜放在思慕雪里味道很好。
菠菜沙拉
She ordered a spinach salad with walnuts.
她点了一份加核桃的菠菜沙拉。
奶油菠菜
The steak came with creamed spinach on the side.
牛排旁边配有奶油菠菜。
菠菜蘸酱
They served warm spinach dip with bread.
他们端上了热菠菜蘸酱和面包。
炒菠菜
Sauteed spinach is a quick and healthy side dish.
炒菠菜是一道又快又健康的配菜。
我强到最后一刻，因为我吃菠菜——我是水手波派。
This is Popeye's theme-song lyric. Popeye gains super strength by eating spinach, so this line has made spinach a famous symbol of quick strength in English-speaking culture.
这是大力水手波派主题曲的歌词。波派一吃菠菜就力大无穷，因此这句歌词让菠菜成为英语文化中“迅速变强”的著名象征。
Use spinach naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
菠菜是 spinach，记住 spin（旋转）——大力水手吃菠菜后一“转”就变强，菜叶也像小风车。
语域：neutral 常见场景：food、cooking、grocery shopping spinach 作‘菠菜’讲时是中性常用词，通常用于日常饮食、烹饪或购物场景，正式和非正式语境下都适用。
spin matches the stressed syllable /spɪn/ of spinach. Itch, which, and ostrich share the final /tʃ/ sound of /spɪnətʃ/, but their vowels differ, so they are not true rhymes. Finch is a lookalike that lacks the schwa before /tʃ/; sandwich may be pronounced with /dʒ/.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.