英漢辭典

1. vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)
   1. 給…加調味汁;(用調味汁)給…調味

2. 2. 給…增加趣味

3. 3. [古] 減輕,使和緩

4. 4. [口] 對…說冒昧話



5. n. (名詞 noun)
   1. 調味汁

   Hunger is the best sauce.

   【諺】 饑餓是最好的調味品

   What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

   【諺】 同樣的對象,就應同樣對待(一視同仁)

   The sauce is better than the fish.

   【諺】 配菜比魚還好(喧賓奪主).

6. 2. 增加趣味的東西,刺激物,趣味

   a poor man's [carrier's] sauce

   饑餓

7. 3. [美] 煮水果 作為餐末甜食或伴佐其他菜一起吃

8. 4. [美‧方] 肉類的配菜

   cranberry sauce

   酸果醬(加在冰淇淋或燉雞中).

9. 5. [美‧俚] 汽油

10. 6. [美‧俚] 烈酒

11. 7. [口] 唐突,無禮(的話)

    What sauce!

    真是無禮!

    (Give me) none of your sauce!=I don't want any of your sauce!=Don't come with any of your sauce!

    不要無禮!別胡來.

柯林斯英英辭典

n. (noun)

1. any liquid or semiliquid preparation eaten with food to enhance its flavour

2. anything that adds piquancy

3. [US and Canadian] stewed fruit

4. [US] [Dialect] vegetables eaten with meat

5. [informal] impudent language or behaviour

vt. (transitive verb)

1. [tr] to prepare (food) with sauce

2. to add zest to

3. to make agreeable or less severe

4. [informal] to be saucy to

5. [Etymology] C14: via Old French from Latin salsus salted, from salire to sprinkle with salt, from sal salt