apple

/ˈæpl/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈæpl/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈa-pəl/ (ame, mw)

apple — noun

  • applesingular
  • applesplural

1. a fruit you can eat raw, usually round, with crisp flesh and skin that may be re

1.名詞A1
釋義

a fruit you can eat raw, usually round, with crisp flesh and skin that may be red, green, or yellow

例句

Mia packed an apple and a sandwich for the bus trip.

eat or pack an apple

After lunch, the apple rolled under the kitchen chair.

同義詞
  • fruit

    a broader word; an apple is one kind of fruit

  • pome

    a technical botany word, not the normal everyday term

文法句型

eat an apple

cut an apple into slices

pick apples

用法筆記

Usually countable in everyday English, so one fruit is an apple and more than one are apples. Often appears with verbs like eat, pick, peel, and slice.

常見錯誤

❌I ate apple after lunch.
✅I ate an apple after lunch.
💡Use a or an when you mean one fruit.