sug‧ar 1 S2 W3 / ʃʊɡə $ -ər / 名词
1 [不可数名词] a sweet white or brown substance that is obtained from plants and used to make food and drinks sweet :
Do you take sugar in your coffee?
2 [可数名词] British English the amount of sugar that a small spoon can hold :
How many sugars do you want in your tea?
3 [可数名词] technical one of several sweet substances formed in plants
4 spoken used to address someone you like very much
COLLOCATIONS
短语
a teaspoon/spoonful of sugar The drink contains seven teaspoons of sugar per can.
a lump of sugar ( also a sugar lump ) (= a small block of sugar ) He put three lumps of sugar in his coffee.
动词
take sugar (= have sugar in your tea or coffee ) ‘Do you take sugar?’ ‘No, thank you.’
sprinkle something with sugar Sprinkle the cake with sugar.
sugar dissolves (= becomes part of a liquid ) Stir until the sugar has dissolved.