詹麗馨的教學天地

一字多義，常帶來文字的趣味，

如下例中的whip及 poach：

How can you whip cream without whips? Whipped cream isn’t whipped cream at all unless it’s been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn’t a poached egg unless it’s been stolen from the woods in the dead of night.

---Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

How can you whip cream without whips? Whipped cream isn’t whipped cream at all unless it’s been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn’t a poached egg unless it’s been stolen from the woods in the dead of night.

---Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

原來如此

whipped¹: a food that is whipped has had air mixed into it, so it is very light.

whip²: to whip someone with a whip (鞭子)

poach¹: to cook food such as eggs or fish in slightly boiling liquid

poach²: to illegally catch or shoot animals, or fish, especially from private land