fry
/fraɪ/ (bre, ipa) · [frˈaɪ] /fraɪ/ (ame, ipa) · [frˈaɪ] /ˈfrī/ (ame, mw)
fry — 動詞
- frypresent simple I / you / we / they
- frieshe / she / it
- friedpast simple
- frying-ing form
1. to prepare food by heating it in a shallow pan with oil or fat on a stove, givin
煎；油炸；炒
用熱油在鍋中烹調食物
to prepare food by heating it in a shallow pan with oil or fat on a stove, giving the outer surface a brown colour and a crisp texture
Omar fried the chicken pieces in hot oil until they turned golden brown.
Omar 將雞肉塊放進熱油鍋裡油炸，直到呈現金黃色。
transitive: fry + direct object (food item)
The onions are frying gently in a little butter and garlic.
洋蔥用少許奶油和蒜末輕輕炒著。
intransitive: [food] + is frying + adverb
Saira always fries her eggs in olive oil instead of butter.
Saira 煎蛋時總是使用橄欖油，而不是奶油。
Aoi could smell the bacon frying from two blocks away.
Aoi 在兩條街外就聞到了培根在煎的香味。
For breakfast Leo fried two eggs and some mushrooms in a little oil.
Leo 早餐用少許油煎了兩顆蛋和一些蘑菇。
- sauté
fry quickly in a small amount of oil over high heat, usually while stirring
- pan-fry
fry in a shallow pan with enough oil to cover the bottom, without fully submerging the food
- deep-fry
fry by submerging food completely in hot oil, producing a very crispy outer layer
- stir-fry
fry small pieces of food quickly in a wok over very high heat while stirring constantly
文法句型
fry + noun_phrase (food item)
fry + noun_phrase + adverb/prepositional_phrase
intransitive: [food] + fries / is frying
用法筆記
Common in recipes and everyday cooking instructions. When used intransitively, the subject is the food being cooked ('The fish fries quickly').
常見錯誤
2. to become painfully hot or sunburned from strong sunlight or extreme heat, as if
曬傷；熱壞
因陽光曝曬而過熱或曬傷
to become painfully hot or sunburned from strong sunlight or extreme heat, as if being cooked
The tourists were frying on the beach under the strong midday sun.
那些觀光客在正午烈日下的沙灘上快被熱壞了。
progressive: were frying + location
Tendai's shoulders began to fry after only twenty minutes in the desert heat.
Tendai 在沙漠高溫中只待了二十分鐘，肩膀就開始被曬傷。
body part + began to fry
We stayed inside because the pavement was frying in the forty-degree heat.
我們待在室內，因為柏油路在四十度高溫下熱得發燙。
Adina could feel her skin starting to fry as she walked across the car park.
Adina 走過停車場時能感覺到皮膚開始被曬傷。
文法句型
[person] + is/was frying
[body part] + is frying + [location/preposition]
用法筆記
Almost exclusively used in informal or humorous contexts. The subject is typically a person or a body part exposed to the sun. Not used in formal weather reports — prefer 'scorching', 'sweltering', or 'blazing'.
3. to put a person to death by passing a powerful electric current through their bo
電刑處死
以電椅處決犯人
to put a person to death by passing a powerful electric current through their body, typically as a legal punishment with a specially designed chair
In the film the governor ordered the prison to fry the convicted murderer.
電影裡，典獄長下令監獄對被判謀殺罪的人處以電刑。
active voice: authority + fries + person
A character in the novel was sentenced to fry for murders he did not commit.
小說中的一個角色因自己沒犯下的謀殺罪被判處電刑。
passive: was sentenced to fry
Several US states have stopped using the electric chair to fry inmates.
美國有幾個州已停止使用電椅處決囚犯。
Darius read about a man sentenced to fry under the state's old execution laws.
Darius 讀到有人在該州舊的死刑法下被電刑處死的故事。
- electrocute
formal, neutral term for death by electric shock; can cover accidents and executions
- execute
much broader; does not specify the method of execution
文法句型
[authority] + fries + [person]
[person] + is/was fried + [prepositional phrase]
用法筆記
Very informal slang derived from the electric chair as a method of capital punishment. In serious or formal writing, use 'execute by electrocution' or 'put to death in the electric chair'. Avoid using this sense in real-world contexts about actual executions as it can sound flippant.
常見錯誤
fry — 名詞
1. very young fish that have recently hatched from eggs and are not yet fully grown
魚苗；小魚
剛孵化出來的小魚
very young fish that have recently hatched from eggs and are not yet fully grown, often found in large groups in rivers, ponds, or hatcheries
The pond was filled with thousands of tiny fry swimming near the water surface.
池塘裡有成千上萬條小魚苗在水面附近游動。
collective: thousands of + fry
Local fishermen must throw back any fry they catch to protect the fish population.
當地漁民必須將捕到的小魚苗放回去，以保護魚類數量。
countable object of verb: throw back + fry
The salmon fry made their way downstream toward the ocean after hatching.
鮭魚苗孵化後便順流游向大海。
A single female trout can produce over a thousand fry in one breeding season.
一條母鱒魚在一個繁殖季可產下超過一千條魚苗。
- fingerling
a young fish that is larger than a fry, typically between fry and adult stage; more technical
- spawn
the eggs of fish or amphibians, not the hatched young themselves; a different stage entirely
文法句型
[quantity] + of + fry
the + fry + [verb]
用法筆記
Used as both a plural noun ('the fry are swimming') and an uncountable noun ('a net full of fry'). The word does not have a singular form in this sense — you cannot say 'a fry' to mean one baby fish; use 'a young fish' instead.