2020年2月3日 星期一

strudel, speciality, option, altogether, a Viennese classic!




The apple strudel is a Viennese classic! The renowned Residenz coffee house at Vienna’s Schloss Schönbrunn is serving up this local speciality, which was already popular at the imperial court. Here's the original recipe:





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option
noun
1 [C or U] one thing which can be chosen from a set of possibilities, or the freedom to make a choice:
The best option would be to cancel the trip altogether.
There are various options open to someone who is willing to work hard.
They didn't leave him much option - either he paid or they'd beat him up.

2 [C] SPECIALIZED the right to buy something in the future:
a share option
The publishers decided not to take up their option on the paperback version.

optional 
adjective
If something is optional, you can choose whether to do it, pay it, buy it, etc:
English is compulsory for all students, but art and music are optional.

op・tion


  
━━ n. 選択(権・の自由); 選択可能なもの[事]; 〔英〕 選択科目; 【商業・株】オプション, 選択売買権 ((on)).
 have no option but to do …するよりほかない.
 keep [leave] one's options open 態度(決定)を保留する.
 make one's option 選択する.
 op・tion・al ━━ a. 随[任]意の.
op・tion・al・ly ad.
optional dividend 【株】選択式配当 ((株主の意向で配当の形を選択できるもの)).
 option key 【コンピュータ】オプションキー ((Macintoshのキーボード上のキーの一つ;他のキーと同時に押して命令を送出する)).
 option money 【株】オプション料 ((optionの購入料)).
 option switch 【コンピュータ】オプション・スイッチ.
 option to purchase 【株】買い取り選択権 (((大手)株主に与えられる,特定の企業の株式を安値で買い取る権利)).


altogether
adverb
completely or in total:
That'll be £52.50 altogether, please.
The government ought to abolish the tax altogether.
She wrote less and less often, and eventually she stopped altogether.
It's all right working with him, but living with him would be a different matter altogether.
I'm not altogether sure I want that (= I have doubts about it).
He's bad-tempered, selfish and altogether (= including everything) an unpleasant man.
I think Graham will agree, but convincing Mary will be altogether more (= much more) difficult.

al・to・geth・er


  
━━ ad. 全く; 全部で; 概して.
 in the altogether 〔話〕 まっぱだかで.

strudel

(strūd'l, shtrūd'l)
n.
A pastry made with fruit or cheese rolled up in layers of thin sheets of dough and then baked.
[German, from Middle High German, whirlpool.]

Apfelstrudel
Apfelstrudel

n. - 以果實或乾酪為餡而烤成的點心
n. - シュトルーデル

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