Definition of sugar in English:

sugar

noun ˈʃʊɡəˈʃʊɡər

1mass noun A sweet crystalline substance obtained from various plants, especially sugar cane and sugar beet, consisting essentially of sucrose, and used as a sweetener in food and drink.
食糖
a spoonful of sugar
as modifier a sugar bowl
Example sentencesExamples
- Fast-burning foods include foods that contain sugar and white flour.
- Tooth decay is caused by the bacteria in dental plaque breaking down sugar in the foods and drinks that you eat and drink.
- This is why a bowl of sugar remains essentially unchanged for months or even years, although it is exposed to copious amounts of oxygen during that time.
- Many people, myself included, find bursts of sugar in savory food highly unpleasant.
- A wine-like beverage can be made from almost any fruit, berry, or other plant material containing sugar.
- Because honey is essentially made of sugar and very little else, it is probably not a thing to be having in quantity in the diet.
- Whisk together flour, oats, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl.
- Your daughter might try avoiding foods like candy, cookies, French fries, potato chips, sugar and white flour to see if it helps her complexion.
- Part of the problem is that increasingly health-conscious consumers see Coke as a drink packed with sugar and chemical sweeteners and not much else.
- In a small bowl, whisk together lime and orange juices, fish sauce, rice wine vinegar, sugar and jalapeno.
- So it is crucial to monitor your intake of glucose from starchy foods (bread, rice and potatoes), sugar and other sweet foods.
- One of the first dietary rules for all diabetics is to avoid all sugar and foods containing sugar, such as pastry, candy and soft drinks.
- In a separate bowl, sift together sugar, flour, baking powder and baking soda.
- Commonly used sweeteners include honey, sugar, maple and corn syrup among others.
- Fried foods, very spicy foods and foods containing too much sugar, such as sweets, can cause health problems and should be limited during Ramadan.
- A NIH study in 1982 tested the theory that refined sugar and food additives make children hyperactive and inattentive.
- Processed foods that contain refined sugar and white flour are fast carbohydrates.
- Small amounts of sugar may be required to take away the sharpness from fruit purées such as gooseberry and rhubarb - but avoid adding sugar to food and drinks.
- Add dried sweet osmanthus and crystal sugar to taste.
- Refined foods, foods high in sugar and white flour are also a problem.
1. 1.1count noun A lump or teaspoonful of sugar, used to sweeten tea or coffee.
  一块糖；一茶匙糖
  I'll have mine black with two sugars
  Example sentencesExamples
  The press officer asks if he would like a coffee. ‘Black but half a cup and, um, a sugar please.’
  His first contact with Daryl Somers was in 1996, when Daryl asked Rove to get him a coffee - flat white, two sugars.
  Well, I'd watch you prepare your coffee and it was always black, 2 sugars, no cream.
  Mr Morrigon's secretary was at her side muttering platitudes about the weather and asking her how many sugars she'd like in her coffee.
  Inside, he filled his coffee cup (two sugars, one cream), picked out a nicely glazed cream filled doughnut, and walked over to the magazine rack.
  Most days people want tea but today one of the guys asked me for some hazelnut-flavoured coffee with milk and three sugars.
  As a young boy, that meant giving up sitting in front of the TV with my cup of coffee, 2 sugars and a biscuit (these were the comforts of my life at that time).
  As I got the coffee, I told the guy behind the counter, make sure you mark them because I will kill you if I get a coffee with seven sugars.
  ‘Black, two sugars, help yourself,’ Colin said pushing his mug towards her.
  Fiona, who despite taking 5 sugars in a coffee every morning, claims not to have a sweet tooth decided against a pastry and instead ordered a club sandwich and a glass of wine.
  ‘Strong, black, and two sugars,’ I muttered, turning back and starting away.
  From now on I'm putting one sugar in my coffee instead of two, and half a sugar in my tea instead of one.
  I do hope Joleen managed to remember the correct number of sugars for the coffee.
  I got it just the way you like it - medium French vanilla coffee with milk and 2 sugars.
  You are now handed a fork and serviette when you buy some hot food from the buffet, and the sugars, spoons and stirrers are kept next to the coffee machine for only those purchasing a hot drink to take.
  He grinned broadly, just like Blake did. ‘White coffee, no sugars, coming right up!’
  It's down to all these,’ he says pointing at the sugars he pours into his coffee.
  I kept the fire going so that I could make Elvis cups of coffee which he preferred milky with four sugars.
  She always had a coffee with her when she did this and she always ordered the same thing: a small coffee, two sugars.
  Sitting by the window at a table for two, Elliot began stirring his coffee while looking for a third sugar to add into it.
2Biochemistry
Any of the class of soluble, crystalline, typically sweet-tasting carbohydrates found in living tissues and exemplified by glucose and sucrose.
〔生化〕糖
Example sentencesExamples
- The purpose of digestion is to break down complex molecules into simple ones such as sugars, fats, and peptides.
- In the warm, humid tropics, where humans evolved, yeasts on the fruit skin and within the fruit convert sugars into various forms of alcohol, the most common being ethanol.
- Consume these sugars a half-hour before and immediately after your workouts.
- The extent to which sugars move across the plasma membranes of embryo-derived protoplasts during isolation, suspension, and drying is not known and merits further investigation.
- Complex sugars coat almost every cell in the body, as well as microbes that cause disease.
3North American informal Used as a term of endearment.
what's wrong, sugar?
怎么了，亲爱的？
Example sentencesExamples
- Well yes, compared to the drab fifties and khaki they probably were, but today their colours seem to be seen through a sepia veneer, and, sugar, that doesn't do it for me.
- ‘Look at me, sugar’, he said.
Synonyms
darling, sweetheart, dearest, dear
4informal as exclamation Used as a euphemism for ‘shit’
〈非正式，婉〉同SHIT
‘Oh sugar!’ cried Sally
Example sentencesExamples
- Spoken and written substitutes for the word in American English include sugar, sheesh, shoot, and shucks, as in the constructions: Oh, sugar! Aww, shucks!
Synonyms
damn, damnation, blast, hell, heck, gordon bennett
5informal A narcotic drug, especially heroin or LSD.
〈非正式〉麻醉药；毒品（尤指海洛因或二乙基麦角酰胺）
bags full of extra-fine Colombian sugar

verb ˈʃʊɡəˈʃʊɡər

[with object]

1Sweeten, sprinkle, or coat with sugar.
往…中加糖；往…上撒糖；往…外裹糖衣
Mother absent-mindedly sugared her tea
母亲心不在焉地往她的茶里加糖。
Example sentencesExamples
- He has been taking only fruit juice and sugared tea and coffee, in protest at constant camera surveillance of his cell.
- We stopped at a warung by the side of the road and sipped hot Balinese coffee, heavily sugared as we devoured the massive valleys falling away before us.
- There's must-have chocolate, sugared cookies, even splashy sips of champagne or sparkling fruit juice over teensy scoops of sorbet.
- Sweetened bitterness, such as sugared espresso, for example, satiates the appetite, while savoury sourness, such as hot-and-sour soup, can stimulate hunger and highlight texture.
- Oh, but blimey, while we were in there we saw chocolate ants, and chocolate locusts, and sugared scorpions.
- Or was that tingle of joy more reminiscent of sitting in front of the tv on a Saturday morning, eating sugared cereal and watching cartoons for hours?
- Visitors to the show will receive a lace bag of wedding favours, five sugared almonds which traditionally convey blessing, with a Bible text inside.
- What is happening in both cases is price - Coke play hard to get by saying that you can only have their sugared water by paying a huge premium over cost.
- This is not a place where the wise diner orders fajitas (they have been uniformly tough) or the sopaipilla dessert, which resembles nothing so much as sugared snippets of frozen bread dough.
- More, he was appalled to discover what they thought tea was: heavily sugared and poured into a glass, with peach slices at the bottom.
- There was no wedding cake, no sugared almonds and we were allowed to wear black.
- Three years ago, cynics doubted the animal rights campaigner's commitment to his fast, after it transpired he had sipped sugared tea and orange juice in York District Hospital.
- For pure indulgence she liked milky, liberally sugared tea and rich cocoa.
- Many meth users turn to sugared sodas to alleviate ‘dry mouth,’ and the sugar only fuels the decay-causing bacteria.
- While the gaily coloured and richly sugared chocolate eggs that we enjoy are recent in origin, the real egg, decorated with colours or gilt, has been acknowledged as a symbol of continuing life and resurrection since long.
- It has a delicious malty aroma with hints of heather and honey and rich, sweet, nutty undertones like sugared almonds or peanut brittle.
- They were heavily sugared, quite unlike later types of bottled fruit in syrup.
- Start by buttering and sugaring your ramekins, all the way to the top.
- ‘The most predominant products marketed to children are sugared cereals, candies, sweets, sodas and snack foods,’ he added.
- It is now strongly suspected that one major culprit is sugared colas,’ they wrote.
1. 1.1usually as noun sugaringEntomology no object Spread a mixture of sugar, treacle, beer, etc., on a tree trunk in order to catch moths.
  〔昆〕在树干上涂撒糖、糖浆、啤酒等的混合物作蛾饵
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sugaring involves combining one can of beer, a pound of sugar, a half cup of dark molasses and some very ripe fruit (and maybe a dash of rum) in a blender and allowing the mixture to thicken to a spreadable consistency.
  Aside from light, probably the next best method of collecting moths and other insects is the well-known method of ‘sugaring’.
2Make more agreeable or palatable.
〈喻〉使变得讨人喜欢，使宜人，使受欢迎
the novel was preachy but sugared heavily with jokes
这部小说虽然说教，但却搀有大量笑话，因而颇受欢迎。
Example sentencesExamples
- The bitter pill of sexual abstinence is sugared with a soulless, preachy kind of rock 'n' wafer and a peer group pressure that is well parodied in the forthcoming Michael Stipe produced film, Saved!
- Well, Three Fools Comedy does the same thing with Shakespeare, cramming all 37 of the Bard's works into a frenzied hour and a half, then sugaring the whole thing with ham-handed slapstick.
- By having us scroll across the screen to march through the desert or turn night to day, he makes his comic a digital playpen, sugaring the story with animation and reinventing the way comics are written and read.
- The Chancellor announced King's job early to sugar an otherwise acid pre-Budget report.
- But what's more intriguing is the e-zine support that sugars the materialistic pill.
- She is the least regretted politician in the country, so her departure sugars the loss of Scotland's presence in British government.
- The Hollande leadership has given up resistance to neo-liberal policies - at best proposing measures to soften the worst effects, but in reality just sugaring the bitter pill.
- The jaunty melodies sugar over the desperation of the lyrics.
- The film's willingness to get into the more difficult aspects of life and relationships, and to stay with them rather than sugaring them over, saves it from mediocrity and makes it worth a look.
- In his act the pill of political polemic may be sugared with a sprinkling of dirty jokes, but it's always there.
- It was a masterpiece of political presentation, sugaring a series of bitter pills, domestic and foreign, in the candy-coating of Labour tradition.
- To sugar the educational pill, you have the world's most idyllic beaches and tastiest cuisine.
- Marcia also makes it clear she thought it was asinine, though she tries to sugar it up a little.

Derivatives

sugarless

adjective ˈʃʊɡələsˈsuɡərləs

The cheapness of sugar creates an incentive for food manufacturers and retailers to sell consumers more of it in more formats, and drives sugarless foods out of the market.
Example sentencesExamples
- If you need a quick fix, chew sugarless gum after meals.
- Small glass mugs of steaming hot, sugarless coffee with a strong and pleasant aroma, turned out to be just as popular among the golfers, as the tall glasses brimming over with frothy ice cold, sweetened coffee.
- And yet if you go into a U.S. supermarket, you see aisle after aisle of fat-free foods, of sugarless foods, of foods devoted to people who are trying to lose weight.
- If you say you have been advised to avoid sugar, the boy is sent out again for sugarless tea, and he brings it within minutes.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French sukere, from Italian zucchero, probably via medieval Latin from Arabic sukkar.

Rhymes

Zeebrugge

Definition of sugar in US English:

sugar

nounˈʃʊɡərˈSHo͝oɡər

1A sweet crystalline substance obtained from various plants, especially sugar cane and sugar beet, consisting essentially of sucrose, and used as a sweetener in food and drink.
食糖
Example sentencesExamples
- Commonly used sweeteners include honey, sugar, maple and corn syrup among others.
- A wine-like beverage can be made from almost any fruit, berry, or other plant material containing sugar.
- This is why a bowl of sugar remains essentially unchanged for months or even years, although it is exposed to copious amounts of oxygen during that time.
- Fast-burning foods include foods that contain sugar and white flour.
- Many people, myself included, find bursts of sugar in savory food highly unpleasant.
- Part of the problem is that increasingly health-conscious consumers see Coke as a drink packed with sugar and chemical sweeteners and not much else.
- Add dried sweet osmanthus and crystal sugar to taste.
- In a small bowl, whisk together lime and orange juices, fish sauce, rice wine vinegar, sugar and jalapeno.
- So it is crucial to monitor your intake of glucose from starchy foods (bread, rice and potatoes), sugar and other sweet foods.
- Small amounts of sugar may be required to take away the sharpness from fruit purées such as gooseberry and rhubarb - but avoid adding sugar to food and drinks.
- Fried foods, very spicy foods and foods containing too much sugar, such as sweets, can cause health problems and should be limited during Ramadan.
- Whisk together flour, oats, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl.
- Because honey is essentially made of sugar and very little else, it is probably not a thing to be having in quantity in the diet.
- In a separate bowl, sift together sugar, flour, baking powder and baking soda.
- One of the first dietary rules for all diabetics is to avoid all sugar and foods containing sugar, such as pastry, candy and soft drinks.
- Processed foods that contain refined sugar and white flour are fast carbohydrates.
- Tooth decay is caused by the bacteria in dental plaque breaking down sugar in the foods and drinks that you eat and drink.
- Refined foods, foods high in sugar and white flour are also a problem.
- A NIH study in 1982 tested the theory that refined sugar and food additives make children hyperactive and inattentive.
- Your daughter might try avoiding foods like candy, cookies, French fries, potato chips, sugar and white flour to see if it helps her complexion.
1. 1.1 A lump or teaspoonful of sugar, used to sweeten tea or coffee.
  一块糖；一茶匙糖
  I'll have mine black with two sugars
  Example sentencesExamples
  She always had a coffee with her when she did this and she always ordered the same thing: a small coffee, two sugars.
  From now on I'm putting one sugar in my coffee instead of two, and half a sugar in my tea instead of one.
  You are now handed a fork and serviette when you buy some hot food from the buffet, and the sugars, spoons and stirrers are kept next to the coffee machine for only those purchasing a hot drink to take.
  I kept the fire going so that I could make Elvis cups of coffee which he preferred milky with four sugars.
  He grinned broadly, just like Blake did. ‘White coffee, no sugars, coming right up!’
  Fiona, who despite taking 5 sugars in a coffee every morning, claims not to have a sweet tooth decided against a pastry and instead ordered a club sandwich and a glass of wine.
  The press officer asks if he would like a coffee. ‘Black but half a cup and, um, a sugar please.’
  ‘Strong, black, and two sugars,’ I muttered, turning back and starting away.
  Well, I'd watch you prepare your coffee and it was always black, 2 sugars, no cream.
  ‘Black, two sugars, help yourself,’ Colin said pushing his mug towards her.
  Most days people want tea but today one of the guys asked me for some hazelnut-flavoured coffee with milk and three sugars.
  Sitting by the window at a table for two, Elliot began stirring his coffee while looking for a third sugar to add into it.
  His first contact with Daryl Somers was in 1996, when Daryl asked Rove to get him a coffee - flat white, two sugars.
  Mr Morrigon's secretary was at her side muttering platitudes about the weather and asking her how many sugars she'd like in her coffee.
  It's down to all these,’ he says pointing at the sugars he pours into his coffee.
  As I got the coffee, I told the guy behind the counter, make sure you mark them because I will kill you if I get a coffee with seven sugars.
  I got it just the way you like it - medium French vanilla coffee with milk and 2 sugars.
  As a young boy, that meant giving up sitting in front of the TV with my cup of coffee, 2 sugars and a biscuit (these were the comforts of my life at that time).
  I do hope Joleen managed to remember the correct number of sugars for the coffee.
  Inside, he filled his coffee cup (two sugars, one cream), picked out a nicely glazed cream filled doughnut, and walked over to the magazine rack.
2Biochemistry
Any of the class of soluble, crystalline, typically sweet-tasting carbohydrates found in living tissues and exemplified by glucose and sucrose.
〔生化〕糖
Example sentencesExamples
- Complex sugars coat almost every cell in the body, as well as microbes that cause disease.
- In the warm, humid tropics, where humans evolved, yeasts on the fruit skin and within the fruit convert sugars into various forms of alcohol, the most common being ethanol.
- Consume these sugars a half-hour before and immediately after your workouts.
- The extent to which sugars move across the plasma membranes of embryo-derived protoplasts during isolation, suspension, and drying is not known and merits further investigation.
- The purpose of digestion is to break down complex molecules into simple ones such as sugars, fats, and peptides.
3North American informal Used as a term of endearment or an affectionate form of address.
〈非正式，主美〉用作爱称亲爱的，宝贝
what's wrong, sugar?
怎么了，亲爱的？
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘Look at me, sugar’, he said.
- Well yes, compared to the drab fifties and khaki they probably were, but today their colours seem to be seen through a sepia veneer, and, sugar, that doesn't do it for me.
Synonyms
darling, sweetheart, dearest, dear
4informal as exclamation Used as a euphemism for “shit.”.
〈非正式，婉〉同SHIT
Example sentencesExamples
- Spoken and written substitutes for the word in American English include sugar, sheesh, shoot, and shucks, as in the constructions: Oh, sugar! Aww, shucks!
Synonyms
damn, damnation, blast, hell, heck, gordon bennett
5informal A psychoactive drug in the form of white powder, especially heroin or cocaine.

verbˈʃʊɡərˈSHo͝oɡər

[with object]

1Sweeten, sprinkle, or coat with sugar.
往…中加糖；往…上撒糖；往…外裹糖衣
she absentmindedly sugared her tea
母亲心不在焉地往她的茶里加糖。
Example sentencesExamples
- Oh, but blimey, while we were in there we saw chocolate ants, and chocolate locusts, and sugared scorpions.
- Or was that tingle of joy more reminiscent of sitting in front of the tv on a Saturday morning, eating sugared cereal and watching cartoons for hours?
- This is not a place where the wise diner orders fajitas (they have been uniformly tough) or the sopaipilla dessert, which resembles nothing so much as sugared snippets of frozen bread dough.
- While the gaily coloured and richly sugared chocolate eggs that we enjoy are recent in origin, the real egg, decorated with colours or gilt, has been acknowledged as a symbol of continuing life and resurrection since long.
- Three years ago, cynics doubted the animal rights campaigner's commitment to his fast, after it transpired he had sipped sugared tea and orange juice in York District Hospital.
- Sweetened bitterness, such as sugared espresso, for example, satiates the appetite, while savoury sourness, such as hot-and-sour soup, can stimulate hunger and highlight texture.
- There's must-have chocolate, sugared cookies, even splashy sips of champagne or sparkling fruit juice over teensy scoops of sorbet.
- It has a delicious malty aroma with hints of heather and honey and rich, sweet, nutty undertones like sugared almonds or peanut brittle.
- Start by buttering and sugaring your ramekins, all the way to the top.
- Many meth users turn to sugared sodas to alleviate ‘dry mouth,’ and the sugar only fuels the decay-causing bacteria.
- More, he was appalled to discover what they thought tea was: heavily sugared and poured into a glass, with peach slices at the bottom.
- They were heavily sugared, quite unlike later types of bottled fruit in syrup.
- We stopped at a warung by the side of the road and sipped hot Balinese coffee, heavily sugared as we devoured the massive valleys falling away before us.
- Visitors to the show will receive a lace bag of wedding favours, five sugared almonds which traditionally convey blessing, with a Bible text inside.
- There was no wedding cake, no sugared almonds and we were allowed to wear black.
- What is happening in both cases is price - Coke play hard to get by saying that you can only have their sugared water by paying a huge premium over cost.
- ‘The most predominant products marketed to children are sugared cereals, candies, sweets, sodas and snack foods,’ he added.
- For pure indulgence she liked milky, liberally sugared tea and rich cocoa.
- It is now strongly suspected that one major culprit is sugared colas,’ they wrote.
- He has been taking only fruit juice and sugared tea and coffee, in protest at constant camera surveillance of his cell.
2Make more agreeable or palatable.
〈喻〉使变得讨人喜欢，使宜人，使受欢迎
the novel was preachy but sugared heavily with jokes
这部小说虽然说教，但却搀有大量笑话，因而颇受欢迎。
Example sentencesExamples
- Well, Three Fools Comedy does the same thing with Shakespeare, cramming all 37 of the Bard's works into a frenzied hour and a half, then sugaring the whole thing with ham-handed slapstick.
- The Hollande leadership has given up resistance to neo-liberal policies - at best proposing measures to soften the worst effects, but in reality just sugaring the bitter pill.
- In his act the pill of political polemic may be sugared with a sprinkling of dirty jokes, but it's always there.
- She is the least regretted politician in the country, so her departure sugars the loss of Scotland's presence in British government.
- The bitter pill of sexual abstinence is sugared with a soulless, preachy kind of rock 'n' wafer and a peer group pressure that is well parodied in the forthcoming Michael Stipe produced film, Saved!
- The Chancellor announced King's job early to sugar an otherwise acid pre-Budget report.
- The jaunty melodies sugar over the desperation of the lyrics.
- To sugar the educational pill, you have the world's most idyllic beaches and tastiest cuisine.
- The film's willingness to get into the more difficult aspects of life and relationships, and to stay with them rather than sugaring them over, saves it from mediocrity and makes it worth a look.
- But what's more intriguing is the e-zine support that sugars the materialistic pill.
- Marcia also makes it clear she thought it was asinine, though she tries to sugar it up a little.
- By having us scroll across the screen to march through the desert or turn night to day, he makes his comic a digital playpen, sugaring the story with animation and reinventing the way comics are written and read.
- It was a masterpiece of political presentation, sugaring a series of bitter pills, domestic and foreign, in the candy-coating of Labour tradition.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French sukere, from Italian zucchero, probably via medieval Latin from Arabic sukkar.

单词	sugar
释义	Definition of sugar in English: sugar noun ˈʃʊɡəˈʃʊɡər 1mass noun A sweet crystalline substance obtained from various plants, especially sugar cane and sugar beet, consisting essentially of sucrose, and used as a sweetener in food and drink. 食糖 a spoonful of sugar as modifier a sugar bowl Example sentencesExamples Fast-burning foods include foods that contain sugar and white flour. Tooth decay is caused by the bacteria in dental plaque breaking down sugar in the foods and drinks that you eat and drink. This is why a bowl of sugar remains essentially unchanged for months or even years, although it is exposed to copious amounts of oxygen during that time. Many people, myself included, find bursts of sugar in savory food highly unpleasant. A wine-like beverage can be made from almost any fruit, berry, or other plant material containing sugar. Because honey is essentially made of sugar and very little else, it is probably not a thing to be having in quantity in the diet. Whisk together flour, oats, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Your daughter might try avoiding foods like candy, cookies, French fries, potato chips, sugar and white flour to see if it helps her complexion. Part of the problem is that increasingly health-conscious consumers see Coke as a drink packed with sugar and chemical sweeteners and not much else. In a small bowl, whisk together lime and orange juices, fish sauce, rice wine vinegar, sugar and jalapeno. So it is crucial to monitor your intake of glucose from starchy foods (bread, rice and potatoes), sugar and other sweet foods. One of the first dietary rules for all diabetics is to avoid all sugar and foods containing sugar, such as pastry, candy and soft drinks. In a separate bowl, sift together sugar, flour, baking powder and baking soda. Commonly used sweeteners include honey, sugar, maple and corn syrup among others. Fried foods, very spicy foods and foods containing too much sugar, such as sweets, can cause health problems and should be limited during Ramadan. A NIH study in 1982 tested the theory that refined sugar and food additives make children hyperactive and inattentive. Processed foods that contain refined sugar and white flour are fast carbohydrates. Small amounts of sugar may be required to take away the sharpness from fruit purées such as gooseberry and rhubarb - but avoid adding sugar to food and drinks. Add dried sweet osmanthus and crystal sugar to taste. Refined foods, foods high in sugar and white flour are also a problem. 1.1count noun A lump or teaspoonful of sugar, used to sweeten tea or coffee. 一块糖；一茶匙糖 I'll have mine black with two sugars Example sentencesExamples The press officer asks if he would like a coffee. ‘Black but half a cup and, um, a sugar please.’ His first contact with Daryl Somers was in 1996, when Daryl asked Rove to get him a coffee - flat white, two sugars. Well, I'd watch you prepare your coffee and it was always black, 2 sugars, no cream. Mr Morrigon's secretary was at her side muttering platitudes about the weather and asking her how many sugars she'd like in her coffee. Inside, he filled his coffee cup (two sugars, one cream), picked out a nicely glazed cream filled doughnut, and walked over to the magazine rack. Most days people want tea but today one of the guys asked me for some hazelnut-flavoured coffee with milk and three sugars. As a young boy, that meant giving up sitting in front of the TV with my cup of coffee, 2 sugars and a biscuit (these were the comforts of my life at that time). As I got the coffee, I told the guy behind the counter, make sure you mark them because I will kill you if I get a coffee with seven sugars. ‘Black, two sugars, help yourself,’ Colin said pushing his mug towards her. Fiona, who despite taking 5 sugars in a coffee every morning, claims not to have a sweet tooth decided against a pastry and instead ordered a club sandwich and a glass of wine. ‘Strong, black, and two sugars,’ I muttered, turning back and starting away. From now on I'm putting one sugar in my coffee instead of two, and half a sugar in my tea instead of one. I do hope Joleen managed to remember the correct number of sugars for the coffee. I got it just the way you like it - medium French vanilla coffee with milk and 2 sugars. You are now handed a fork and serviette when you buy some hot food from the buffet, and the sugars, spoons and stirrers are kept next to the coffee machine for only those purchasing a hot drink to take. He grinned broadly, just like Blake did. ‘White coffee, no sugars, coming right up!’ It's down to all these,’ he says pointing at the sugars he pours into his coffee. I kept the fire going so that I could make Elvis cups of coffee which he preferred milky with four sugars. She always had a coffee with her when she did this and she always ordered the same thing: a small coffee, two sugars. Sitting by the window at a table for two, Elliot began stirring his coffee while looking for a third sugar to add into it. 2Biochemistry Any of the class of soluble, crystalline, typically sweet-tasting carbohydrates found in living tissues and exemplified by glucose and sucrose. 〔生化〕糖 Example sentencesExamples The purpose of digestion is to break down complex molecules into simple ones such as sugars, fats, and peptides. In the warm, humid tropics, where humans evolved, yeasts on the fruit skin and within the fruit convert sugars into various forms of alcohol, the most common being ethanol. Consume these sugars a half-hour before and immediately after your workouts. The extent to which sugars move across the plasma membranes of embryo-derived protoplasts during isolation, suspension, and drying is not known and merits further investigation. Complex sugars coat almost every cell in the body, as well as microbes that cause disease. 3North American informal Used as a term of endearment. what's wrong, sugar? 怎么了，亲爱的？ Example sentencesExamples Well yes, compared to the drab fifties and khaki they probably were, but today their colours seem to be seen through a sepia veneer, and, sugar, that doesn't do it for me. ‘Look at me, sugar’, he said. Synonyms darling, sweetheart, dearest, dear 4informal as exclamation Used as a euphemism for ‘shit’ 〈非正式，婉〉同SHIT ‘Oh sugar!’ cried Sally Example sentencesExamples Spoken and written substitutes for the word in American English include sugar, sheesh, shoot, and shucks, as in the constructions: Oh, sugar! Aww, shucks! Synonyms damn, damnation, blast, hell, heck, gordon bennett 5informal A narcotic drug, especially heroin or LSD. 〈非正式〉麻醉药；毒品（尤指海洛因或二乙基麦角酰胺） bags full of extra-fine Colombian sugar verb ˈʃʊɡəˈʃʊɡər [with object] 1Sweeten, sprinkle, or coat with sugar. 往…中加糖；往…上撒糖；往…外裹糖衣 Mother absent-mindedly sugared her tea 母亲心不在焉地往她的茶里加糖。 Example sentencesExamples He has been taking only fruit juice and sugared tea and coffee, in protest at constant camera surveillance of his cell. We stopped at a warung by the side of the road and sipped hot Balinese coffee, heavily sugared as we devoured the massive valleys falling away before us. There's must-have chocolate, sugared cookies, even splashy sips of champagne or sparkling fruit juice over teensy scoops of sorbet. Sweetened bitterness, such as sugared espresso, for example, satiates the appetite, while savoury sourness, such as hot-and-sour soup, can stimulate hunger and highlight texture. Oh, but blimey, while we were in there we saw chocolate ants, and chocolate locusts, and sugared scorpions. Or was that tingle of joy more reminiscent of sitting in front of the tv on a Saturday morning, eating sugared cereal and watching cartoons for hours? Visitors to the show will receive a lace bag of wedding favours, five sugared almonds which traditionally convey blessing, with a Bible text inside. What is happening in both cases is price - Coke play hard to get by saying that you can only have their sugared water by paying a huge premium over cost. This is not a place where the wise diner orders fajitas (they have been uniformly tough) or the sopaipilla dessert, which resembles nothing so much as sugared snippets of frozen bread dough. More, he was appalled to discover what they thought tea was: heavily sugared and poured into a glass, with peach slices at the bottom. There was no wedding cake, no sugared almonds and we were allowed to wear black. Three years ago, cynics doubted the animal rights campaigner's commitment to his fast, after it transpired he had sipped sugared tea and orange juice in York District Hospital. For pure indulgence she liked milky, liberally sugared tea and rich cocoa. Many meth users turn to sugared sodas to alleviate ‘dry mouth,’ and the sugar only fuels the decay-causing bacteria. While the gaily coloured and richly sugared chocolate eggs that we enjoy are recent in origin, the real egg, decorated with colours or gilt, has been acknowledged as a symbol of continuing life and resurrection since long. It has a delicious malty aroma with hints of heather and honey and rich, sweet, nutty undertones like sugared almonds or peanut brittle. They were heavily sugared, quite unlike later types of bottled fruit in syrup. Start by buttering and sugaring your ramekins, all the way to the top. ‘The most predominant products marketed to children are sugared cereals, candies, sweets, sodas and snack foods,’ he added. It is now strongly suspected that one major culprit is sugared colas,’ they wrote. 1.1usually as noun sugaringEntomology no object Spread a mixture of sugar, treacle, beer, etc., on a tree trunk in order to catch moths. 〔昆〕在树干上涂撒糖、糖浆、啤酒等的混合物作蛾饵 Example sentencesExamples Sugaring involves combining one can of beer, a pound of sugar, a half cup of dark molasses and some very ripe fruit (and maybe a dash of rum) in a blender and allowing the mixture to thicken to a spreadable consistency. Aside from light, probably the next best method of collecting moths and other insects is the well-known method of ‘sugaring’. 2Make more agreeable or palatable. 〈喻〉使变得讨人喜欢，使宜人，使受欢迎 the novel was preachy but sugared heavily with jokes 这部小说虽然说教，但却搀有大量笑话，因而颇受欢迎。 Example sentencesExamples The bitter pill of sexual abstinence is sugared with a soulless, preachy kind of rock 'n' wafer and a peer group pressure that is well parodied in the forthcoming Michael Stipe produced film, Saved! Well, Three Fools Comedy does the same thing with Shakespeare, cramming all 37 of the Bard's works into a frenzied hour and a half, then sugaring the whole thing with ham-handed slapstick. By having us scroll across the screen to march through the desert or turn night to day, he makes his comic a digital playpen, sugaring the story with animation and reinventing the way comics are written and read. The Chancellor announced King's job early to sugar an otherwise acid pre-Budget report. But what's more intriguing is the e-zine support that sugars the materialistic pill. She is the least regretted politician in the country, so her departure sugars the loss of Scotland's presence in British government. The Hollande leadership has given up resistance to neo-liberal policies - at best proposing measures to soften the worst effects, but in reality just sugaring the bitter pill. The jaunty melodies sugar over the desperation of the lyrics. The film's willingness to get into the more difficult aspects of life and relationships, and to stay with them rather than sugaring them over, saves it from mediocrity and makes it worth a look. In his act the pill of political polemic may be sugared with a sprinkling of dirty jokes, but it's always there. It was a masterpiece of political presentation, sugaring a series of bitter pills, domestic and foreign, in the candy-coating of Labour tradition. To sugar the educational pill, you have the world's most idyllic beaches and tastiest cuisine. Marcia also makes it clear she thought it was asinine, though she tries to sugar it up a little. Derivatives sugarless adjective ˈʃʊɡələsˈsuɡərləs The cheapness of sugar creates an incentive for food manufacturers and retailers to sell consumers more of it in more formats, and drives sugarless foods out of the market. Example sentencesExamples If you need a quick fix, chew sugarless gum after meals. Small glass mugs of steaming hot, sugarless coffee with a strong and pleasant aroma, turned out to be just as popular among the golfers, as the tall glasses brimming over with frothy ice cold, sweetened coffee. And yet if you go into a U.S. supermarket, you see aisle after aisle of fat-free foods, of sugarless foods, of foods devoted to people who are trying to lose weight. If you say you have been advised to avoid sugar, the boy is sent out again for sugarless tea, and he brings it within minutes. Origin Middle English: from Old French sukere, from Italian zucchero, probably via medieval Latin from Arabic sukkar. Rhymes Zeebrugge Definition of sugar in US English: sugar nounˈʃʊɡərˈSHo͝oɡər 1A sweet crystalline substance obtained from various plants, especially sugar cane and sugar beet, consisting essentially of sucrose, and used as a sweetener in food and drink. 食糖 Example sentencesExamples Commonly used sweeteners include honey, sugar, maple and corn syrup among others. A wine-like beverage can be made from almost any fruit, berry, or other plant material containing sugar. This is why a bowl of sugar remains essentially unchanged for months or even years, although it is exposed to copious amounts of oxygen during that time. Fast-burning foods include foods that contain sugar and white flour. Many people, myself included, find bursts of sugar in savory food highly unpleasant. Part of the problem is that increasingly health-conscious consumers see Coke as a drink packed with sugar and chemical sweeteners and not much else. Add dried sweet osmanthus and crystal sugar to taste. In a small bowl, whisk together lime and orange juices, fish sauce, rice wine vinegar, sugar and jalapeno. So it is crucial to monitor your intake of glucose from starchy foods (bread, rice and potatoes), sugar and other sweet foods. Small amounts of sugar may be required to take away the sharpness from fruit purées such as gooseberry and rhubarb - but avoid adding sugar to food and drinks. Fried foods, very spicy foods and foods containing too much sugar, such as sweets, can cause health problems and should be limited during Ramadan. Whisk together flour, oats, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Because honey is essentially made of sugar and very little else, it is probably not a thing to be having in quantity in the diet. In a separate bowl, sift together sugar, flour, baking powder and baking soda. One of the first dietary rules for all diabetics is to avoid all sugar and foods containing sugar, such as pastry, candy and soft drinks. Processed foods that contain refined sugar and white flour are fast carbohydrates. Tooth decay is caused by the bacteria in dental plaque breaking down sugar in the foods and drinks that you eat and drink. Refined foods, foods high in sugar and white flour are also a problem. A NIH study in 1982 tested the theory that refined sugar and food additives make children hyperactive and inattentive. Your daughter might try avoiding foods like candy, cookies, French fries, potato chips, sugar and white flour to see if it helps her complexion. 1.1 A lump or teaspoonful of sugar, used to sweeten tea or coffee. 一块糖；一茶匙糖 I'll have mine black with two sugars Example sentencesExamples She always had a coffee with her when she did this and she always ordered the same thing: a small coffee, two sugars. From now on I'm putting one sugar in my coffee instead of two, and half a sugar in my tea instead of one. You are now handed a fork and serviette when you buy some hot food from the buffet, and the sugars, spoons and stirrers are kept next to the coffee machine for only those purchasing a hot drink to take. I kept the fire going so that I could make Elvis cups of coffee which he preferred milky with four sugars. He grinned broadly, just like Blake did. ‘White coffee, no sugars, coming right up!’ Fiona, who despite taking 5 sugars in a coffee every morning, claims not to have a sweet tooth decided against a pastry and instead ordered a club sandwich and a glass of wine. The press officer asks if he would like a coffee. ‘Black but half a cup and, um, a sugar please.’ ‘Strong, black, and two sugars,’ I muttered, turning back and starting away. Well, I'd watch you prepare your coffee and it was always black, 2 sugars, no cream. ‘Black, two sugars, help yourself,’ Colin said pushing his mug towards her. Most days people want tea but today one of the guys asked me for some hazelnut-flavoured coffee with milk and three sugars. Sitting by the window at a table for two, Elliot began stirring his coffee while looking for a third sugar to add into it. His first contact with Daryl Somers was in 1996, when Daryl asked Rove to get him a coffee - flat white, two sugars. Mr Morrigon's secretary was at her side muttering platitudes about the weather and asking her how many sugars she'd like in her coffee. It's down to all these,’ he says pointing at the sugars he pours into his coffee. As I got the coffee, I told the guy behind the counter, make sure you mark them because I will kill you if I get a coffee with seven sugars. I got it just the way you like it - medium French vanilla coffee with milk and 2 sugars. As a young boy, that meant giving up sitting in front of the TV with my cup of coffee, 2 sugars and a biscuit (these were the comforts of my life at that time). I do hope Joleen managed to remember the correct number of sugars for the coffee. Inside, he filled his coffee cup (two sugars, one cream), picked out a nicely glazed cream filled doughnut, and walked over to the magazine rack. 2Biochemistry Any of the class of soluble, crystalline, typically sweet-tasting carbohydrates found in living tissues and exemplified by glucose and sucrose. 〔生化〕糖 Example sentencesExamples Complex sugars coat almost every cell in the body, as well as microbes that cause disease. In the warm, humid tropics, where humans evolved, yeasts on the fruit skin and within the fruit convert sugars into various forms of alcohol, the most common being ethanol. Consume these sugars a half-hour before and immediately after your workouts. The extent to which sugars move across the plasma membranes of embryo-derived protoplasts during isolation, suspension, and drying is not known and merits further investigation. The purpose of digestion is to break down complex molecules into simple ones such as sugars, fats, and peptides. 3North American informal Used as a term of endearment or an affectionate form of address. 〈非正式，主美〉用作爱称亲爱的，宝贝 what's wrong, sugar? 怎么了，亲爱的？ Example sentencesExamples ‘Look at me, sugar’, he said. Well yes, compared to the drab fifties and khaki they probably were, but today their colours seem to be seen through a sepia veneer, and, sugar, that doesn't do it for me. Synonyms darling, sweetheart, dearest, dear 4informal as exclamation Used as a euphemism for “shit.”. 〈非正式，婉〉同SHIT Example sentencesExamples Spoken and written substitutes for the word in American English include sugar, sheesh, shoot, and shucks, as in the constructions: Oh, sugar! Aww, shucks! Synonyms damn, damnation, blast, hell, heck, gordon bennett 5informal A psychoactive drug in the form of white powder, especially heroin or cocaine. verbˈʃʊɡərˈSHo͝oɡər [with object] 1Sweeten, sprinkle, or coat with sugar. 往…中加糖；往…上撒糖；往…外裹糖衣 she absentmindedly sugared her tea 母亲心不在焉地往她的茶里加糖。 Example sentencesExamples Oh, but blimey, while we were in there we saw chocolate ants, and chocolate locusts, and sugared scorpions. Or was that tingle of joy more reminiscent of sitting in front of the tv on a Saturday morning, eating sugared cereal and watching cartoons for hours? This is not a place where the wise diner orders fajitas (they have been uniformly tough) or the sopaipilla dessert, which resembles nothing so much as sugared snippets of frozen bread dough. While the gaily coloured and richly sugared chocolate eggs that we enjoy are recent in origin, the real egg, decorated with colours or gilt, has been acknowledged as a symbol of continuing life and resurrection since long. Three years ago, cynics doubted the animal rights campaigner's commitment to his fast, after it transpired he had sipped sugared tea and orange juice in York District Hospital. Sweetened bitterness, such as sugared espresso, for example, satiates the appetite, while savoury sourness, such as hot-and-sour soup, can stimulate hunger and highlight texture. There's must-have chocolate, sugared cookies, even splashy sips of champagne or sparkling fruit juice over teensy scoops of sorbet. It has a delicious malty aroma with hints of heather and honey and rich, sweet, nutty undertones like sugared almonds or peanut brittle. Start by buttering and sugaring your ramekins, all the way to the top. Many meth users turn to sugared sodas to alleviate ‘dry mouth,’ and the sugar only fuels the decay-causing bacteria. More, he was appalled to discover what they thought tea was: heavily sugared and poured into a glass, with peach slices at the bottom. They were heavily sugared, quite unlike later types of bottled fruit in syrup. We stopped at a warung by the side of the road and sipped hot Balinese coffee, heavily sugared as we devoured the massive valleys falling away before us. Visitors to the show will receive a lace bag of wedding favours, five sugared almonds which traditionally convey blessing, with a Bible text inside. There was no wedding cake, no sugared almonds and we were allowed to wear black. What is happening in both cases is price - Coke play hard to get by saying that you can only have their sugared water by paying a huge premium over cost. ‘The most predominant products marketed to children are sugared cereals, candies, sweets, sodas and snack foods,’ he added. For pure indulgence she liked milky, liberally sugared tea and rich cocoa. It is now strongly suspected that one major culprit is sugared colas,’ they wrote. He has been taking only fruit juice and sugared tea and coffee, in protest at constant camera surveillance of his cell. 2Make more agreeable or palatable. 〈喻〉使变得讨人喜欢，使宜人，使受欢迎 the novel was preachy but sugared heavily with jokes 这部小说虽然说教，但却搀有大量笑话，因而颇受欢迎。 Example sentencesExamples Well, Three Fools Comedy does the same thing with Shakespeare, cramming all 37 of the Bard's works into a frenzied hour and a half, then sugaring the whole thing with ham-handed slapstick. The Hollande leadership has given up resistance to neo-liberal policies - at best proposing measures to soften the worst effects, but in reality just sugaring the bitter pill. In his act the pill of political polemic may be sugared with a sprinkling of dirty jokes, but it's always there. She is the least regretted politician in the country, so her departure sugars the loss of Scotland's presence in British government. The bitter pill of sexual abstinence is sugared with a soulless, preachy kind of rock 'n' wafer and a peer group pressure that is well parodied in the forthcoming Michael Stipe produced film, Saved! The Chancellor announced King's job early to sugar an otherwise acid pre-Budget report. The jaunty melodies sugar over the desperation of the lyrics. To sugar the educational pill, you have the world's most idyllic beaches and tastiest cuisine. The film's willingness to get into the more difficult aspects of life and relationships, and to stay with them rather than sugaring them over, saves it from mediocrity and makes it worth a look. But what's more intriguing is the e-zine support that sugars the materialistic pill. Marcia also makes it clear she thought it was asinine, though she tries to sugar it up a little. By having us scroll across the screen to march through the desert or turn night to day, he makes his comic a digital playpen, sugaring the story with animation and reinventing the way comics are written and read. It was a masterpiece of political presentation, sugaring a series of bitter pills, domestic and foreign, in the candy-coating of Labour tradition. Origin Middle English: from Old French sukere, from Italian zucchero, probably via medieval Latin from Arabic sukkar.
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