• n. 肉湯；液體培養基

詞源同brew, braise.

broth

broth: [OE] Broth comes ultimately from the Indo-European base *bhreu- or *bhru- ‘heat, boil’, which also produced brew and fervent. Etymologically, therefore, it means ‘liquid in which something has been boiled’. The notion of ‘heating’ has now disappeared, but it seems to have survived into the modern English period, as is shown by such compounds as snow-broth ‘melted snow’, first recorded at the end of the 16th century.

The Germanic form *brotham was borrowed into Vulgar Latin as *brodo, which came via Old French broez into 13th-century English as broys or browes. This survives in Scottish English as brose ‘type of porridge’, as in Atholl brose.
=> brew, fervent, imbrue

broth (n.)

Old English brot, from Proto-Germanic *bruthan (cognates: Old High German *brod), from verb root *bhreue- "to heat, boil, bubble; liquid in which something has been boiled" (source also of Old English breowan "to brew;" see brew (v.)). Picked up from Germanic by the Romanic and Celtic languages.

The Irishism broth of a boy, which is in Byron, was "thought to originate from the Irish Broth, passion -- Brotha passionate, spirited ..." [Farmer], and if so is not immediately related.

1. You will need a pot of broth for poaching.

你需要一鍋湯來煮。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Pour the broth through a strainer.

把肉湯倒進濾網濾一下。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Thicken the broth with the cornflour.

加玉米面使湯變稠。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Jeerers must be content to taste of their own broth.

[諺]嘲笑人者必被人笑.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

5. Too many cooks spoil the broth.

廚子太多反而把湯做壞.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》