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a white substance that is added to food to make it taste better or to preserve it. Salt is obtained from mines and is also found in seawater. It is sometimes called common salt to show that it is different from other chemical salts. Its chemical name is sodium chloride. 鹽；食鹽 Pass the salt, please. 請把鹽遞過來。 a pinch of salt (= a small amount of it) 一撮鹽 Season with salt and pepper. 放鹽和胡椒粉調味。 Sprinkle with salt to taste. 撒鹽調味。 Avoid adding table salt to your food. 避免在食物中添加食鹽。 salt and vinegar crisps 鹽醋薯片
Extra ExamplesTopics Fooda1Don't put so much salt on your chips! 别在你的薯條上放那麽多鹽！ He could taste the salt from the water in his mouth. 他能夠嘗出自己嘴裏的水有鹽。 He wants to reduce his salt intake. 他想減少鹽的攝入量。 I could smell the salt air as it whipped through my hair. 當海風掠過我的頭發，我聞到了大海的鹹味。 Most foodstuffs contain some salt. 食品大多都含有一定量的鹽分。 a diet low in salt 低鹽飲食
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- mineral
- rock
- sea
- …
- grain
- pinch
- taste
- add
- put in
- …
- crystals
- solution
- content
- …
- high in salt
- low in salt
- salt and pepper
- …
- [countable] (
chemistry 化學 a chemical formed from a metal and an acid 鹽（金屬和酸組成的化學物質） mineral salts 礦鹽
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- mineral
- rock
- sea
- …
- grain
- pinch
- taste
- add
- put in
- …
- crystals
- solution
- content
- …
- high in salt
- low in salt
- salt and pepper
- …
- salts[plural]
a substance that looks or tastes like salt 形狀（或味道）像鹽的物質 bath salts (= used to give a pleasant smell to bath water) （放在洗澡水中使之芳香的）浴鹽
Word OriginOld English sealt (noun), sealtan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zout and German Salz (nouns), from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sal, Greek hals ‘salt’.
Idioms
like a dose of salts
- (British English, old-fashioned, informal)
very fast and easily 迅速輕易地；一下子 He got through the housework like a dose of salts. 他輕鬆地做完了家務。
rub salt into the wound | rub salt into somebody’s wounds
to make a difficult experience even more difficult for somebody 在傷口上抹鹽；使雪上加霜
the salt of the earth
a very good and honest person that you can always depend on 世上的鹽，地上的鹽（指善良而誠實的人）
take something with a pinch of salt
(North American English also take something with a grain of salt)
to be careful about believing that something is completely true 不完全相信；半信半疑 If I were you, I’d take everything he says with a pinch of salt. 如果我是你，我會對他說的每一句話都半信半疑。
worth your/its salt