choco‧late S2 / tʃɒklət, tʃɒklɪt $ tʃɑk ə lət, tʃɒk- / 名词

1 [不可数名词] a sweet brown food that you can eat as a sweet or use in cooking to give foods such as cakes a special sweet taste :

a chocolate bar

a chocolate cake

a packet of chocolate biscuits

I prefer milk chocolate to dark chocolate .

2 [可数名词] a small sweet that is covered with chocolate :

Would you like a chocolate?

a box of chocolates

3 [可数和不可数名词] a hot sweet drink made with milk and chocolate, or a cup of this drink :

a mug of hot chocolate

Two coffees and one chocolate, please.

4 [不可数名词] a dark brown colour

COLLOCATIONS

types of chocolate

milk chocolate (= chocolate with milk added to it ) ice-cream inside a milk chocolate coating

dark chocolate ( also plain chocolate British English ) (= without milk and with very little sugar ) strawberries dipped in dark chocolate

white chocolate (= white in colour, with a sweet milky taste ) Serve the cake with a white chocolate sauce.

bitter chocolate (= dark chocolate with a strong sharp taste ) Bitter chocolate may be added to meat sauces for extra flavour.

cooking chocolate (= chocolate to use in cooking ) Melt the cooking chocolate and spread it over the tray.

melted chocolate Stir in the eggs and the melted chocolate.

短语

a bar of chocolate (= a long block of chocolate ) He bought a Coke and a bar of chocolate.

a piece/bit of chocolate Would you like a piece of chocolate?

a box of chocolates (= a box of small sweets covered with chocolate ) I gave Mum a box of chocolates for her birthday.

a slab of chocolate (= a large flat piece ) They shared a large slab of chocolate.

a square of chocolate (= a small square piece ) I only ate one small square of chocolate.

chocolate + NOUN

a chocolate cake/biscuit/pudding etc For her birthday he made a chocolate cake.

chocolate chips (= very small pieces of chocolate ) vanilla ice cream with chocolate chips

a chocolate factory My dream job would be working in a chocolate factory.