some toffee
toffee 作物质名词时通常不可数,用 some 等词修饰,不加 s。
Would you like some toffee?
你想来点太妃糖吗?
太妃糖;乳脂糖
先理解核心含义,再看它在真实句子里的用法。
太妃糖;乳脂糖
caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
Would you like some toffee?
你想来点太妃糖吗?
一种耐嚼的糖果,由糖(或糖浆等)与黄油或牛奶煮沸,冷却后变硬而成。
A type of chewy confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard.
一小块太妃糖。
A small, individual piece of toffee.
She bought a bag of toffee for her little brother.
她给弟弟买了一袋太妃糖。
This toffee is too hard to bite into.
这块太妃糖太硬了,咬不动。
The children shared the toffees during the break.
孩子们在课间分享了太妃糖。
toffee 作物质名词时通常不可数,用 some 等词修饰,不加 s。
Would you like some toffee?
你想来点太妃糖吗?
指具体的一颗糖时,toffee 可作可数名词,用 a toffee。
She gave me a toffee.
她给了我一颗太妃糖。
复数 toffees 表示多颗糖果;若指糖的材质或整体中的一部分,常用不可数形式。
The jar contains several toffees.
这个罐子里有几颗太妃糖。
Not this
I bought three toffee at the store.
Use this
I bought three toffees at the store.
toffee 在指一颗一颗的太妃糖时是可数名词,复数形式为 toffees;中文名词没有复数变化,所以学习者容易漏掉词尾的 -s/-es。
Not this
This ice cream tastes toffee.
Use this
This ice cream tastes like toffee.
taste 作连系动词表示“尝起来”时不能直接接名词;表示“尝起来像”要用 taste like + 名词。toffee 是名词,所以应说 taste like toffee。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
太妃糖布丁
We ordered sticky toffee pudding for dessert.
我们点了太妃糖布丁作为甜点。
太妃糖苹果
The kids each got a toffee apple at the fair.
孩子们在游乐园每人吃了一个太妃糖苹果。
英式太妃糖
She brought a box of English toffee from the shop.
她从商店带了一盒英式太妃糖。
太妃糖酱
The cake was served with warm toffee sauce.
蛋糕配着温热的太妃糖酱。
耐嚼的太妃糖
I prefer chewy toffee to brittle caramel.
比起脆焦糖,我更喜欢耐嚼的太妃糖。
(英式口语)完全做不来某事;一点也不会做某事
He can't sing for toffee.
他完全不会唱歌。
势利的;自命不凡的
She's very toffee-nosed since she moved to London.
她搬到伦敦后变得非常势利。
Use toffee naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
把 toffee 记成“太妃糖太黏牙”,两个 f 像两块黏在一起的糖,帮你记住拼写和黏稠口感。
语域:neutral 常见场景:日常零食、甜品食谱、糖果包装 此词通常作日常中性词使用,多出现在食品、甜点或糖果相关场合;正式或专业语境中较少见,但在菜谱和商品说明里比较常见。
coffee (/ˈkɒfi/) 与 toffee 押韵。注意 trophy (/ˈtrəʊfi/) 虽然以 /fi/ 结尾,但元音是 /əʊ/,不押韵;toff (/tɒf/) 只与 toffee 的前半部分发音相同,缺少末音 /i/。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.