tomatoes
tomatoes — 名詞
1. A round fruit with red or yellow skin, soft juicy flesh, and many small seeds. I
番茄
紅色或黃色、可生食或烹調的蔬果
A round fruit with red or yellow skin, soft juicy flesh, and many small seeds. It is eaten raw in salads or cooked in sauces, stews, and other dishes as a savory ingredient.
Gabriela sliced two ripe tomatoes for the salad while the pasta boiled.
Gabriela 在煮義大利麵時切了兩顆成熟的番茄來做沙拉。
Maeve picked the reddest tomatoes from the vine and dropped them into a basket.
Maeve 從藤上摘下最紅的番茄，放進籃子裡。
collocation: pick tomatoes / from the vine
Iker chopped the tomatoes into cubes and mixed them with onion and coriander for the salsa.
Iker 把番茄切成小丁，和洋蔥、香菜拌在一起做莎莎醬。
Joon's grandmother added a can of crushed tomatoes to the stew to deepen the flavor.
Joon 的奶奶在燉菜裡加了一罐番茄碎，讓味道更濃郁。
The children ate cherry tomatoes straight from the bowl like sweets during the picnic.
孩子們在野餐時直接從碗裡拿小番茄吃，像吃糖果一樣。
2. A plant with green leaves and small yellow flowers that produces the fruit known
番茄植株
結出番茄果實的植物
A plant with green leaves and small yellow flowers that produces the fruit known as a tomato. It grows on a vine and is commonly grown in gardens or greenhouses.
Saira planted twelve tomato seedlings along the sunny side of the fence.
Saira 沿著籬笆陽光充足的一側種了十二株番茄苗。
Hamza watered the tomatoes every evening and watched the green fruits slowly turn red.
Hamza 每天晚上幫番茄澆水，看著綠色的果實慢慢變紅。
collocation: water tomatoes / grow tomatoes
The biology teacher showed the class a diagram of a tomato plant's root system.
生物老師向全班展示了番茄植株根部的圖解。
Chiara harvested the ripe tomatoes before the autumn rains damaged the crop.
Chiara 在秋雨損害收成之前採收了成熟的番茄。
- tomato plant
more specific term for the plant itself — use when you need to avoid confusion with the fruit
用法筆記
The plural "tomatoes" can refer either to the fruits or to the plants themselves when the context is about gardening. For the plant, speakers also use the compound "tomato plant" for clarity.