salt
noun /sɔːlt/, /sɒlt/
/sɔːlt/
Idioms - [uncountable] 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.
盐；食盐 - Pass the salt, please.
请把盐递过来。 - a pinch of salt (= a small amount of it)
一撮盐 - Season with salt and pepper.
放盐和胡椒粉调味。 - Sprinkle with salt to taste.
撒盐调味。 - Avoid adding table salt to your food.
避免在食物中添加食盐。 - salt and vinegar crisps
盐醋薯片
Topics Fooda1- Don't put so much salt on your chips!
别在你的薯条上放那么多盐！ - He could taste the salt from the water in his mouth.
他能够尝出自己嘴里的水有盐。 - He wants to reduce his salt intake.
他想减少盐的摄入量。 - I could smell the salt air as it whipped through my hair.
当海风掠过我的头发，我闻到了大海的咸味。 - Most foodstuffs contain some salt.
食品大多都含有一定量的盐分。 - a diet low in salt
低盐饮食
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- mineral
- rock
- sea
- …
- grain
- pinch
- taste
- add
- put in
- …
- crystals
- solution
- content
- …
- high in salt
- low in salt
- salt and pepper
- …
- Pass the salt, please.
- [countable] (chemistry
化学 盐（金属和酸组成的化学物质） - mineral salts
矿盐
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- mineral
- rock
- sea
- …
- grain
- pinch
- taste
- add
- put in
- …
- crystals
- solution
- content
- …
- high in salt
- low in salt
- salt and pepper
- …
- mineral salts
- salts[plural] a substance that looks or tastes like salt
形状（或味道）像盐的物质 - bath salts (= used to give a pleasant smell to bath water)
（放在洗澡水中使之芳香的）浴盐
- bath salts (= used to give a pleasant smell to bath water)
词源Old 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
迅速轻易地；一下子 - He got through the housework like a dose of salts.
他轻松地做完了家务。
- He got through the housework like a dose of salts.
rub salt into the wound | rub salt into somebody’s wounds
- to make a difficult experience even more difficult for somebody
在伤口上抹盐；使雪上加霜
the salt of the earth
- a very good and honest person that you can always depend on
世上的盐，地上的盐（指善良而诚实的人）
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，我会对他说的每一句话都半信半疑。
- If I were you, I’d take everything he says with a pinch of salt.
worth your/its salt
- deserving respect, especially because you do your job well
称职；胜任 - Any teacher worth her salt knows that.
凡称职的教师都知道这一点。
- Any teacher worth her salt knows that.