薄荷香氣：mint有幾種意思
Fine, but they can't smell it on your breath, So eat a mint after.
——2 Broke Girls
隨你吧，不過不能讓人家聞到酒味，等會吃顆薄荷糖吧。
——《破產姐妹》
一、你知道mint有幾種含義嗎？
n.
1.薄荷 [U] a plant with dark green leaves that have a fresh smell and taste and are added to food and drinks to give flavour, and used in cooking as a herb and to decorate food
Sage, mint and dill are all herbs.
鼠尾草、薄荷、蒔蘿均爲藥草。
2.大量；巨（款） [C] a large amount of money
He has a mint of money.
他有大量的錢。
3.造幣廠 [U] a place where money is made
The mint coins millions of nickels and dimes each year.
造幣廠每年都要鑄數以百萬計的分幣和角幣。
v.
鑄造，鑄幣 [T] to make a coin from metal
The Romans learned to mint from the Greeks.
羅馬人從希臘人那裏學會了鑄造錢幣。
二、你知道mint和哪些詞更搭嗎？
lemon mint
檸檬香蜂草
water mint
水生薄荷
corn mint
n. 薄荷
mint julep
n. <美> 薄荷朱利酒(白蘭地加冰塊,砂糖及薄荷所調成的飲料)
三、最後，做個填詞遊戲吧 I decorated the fruit salad with a sprig of _____.我用小薄荷枝裝點水果色拉。
