Chase the meaning of a word fondue

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xia23
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A word, fondue in German, 

 is cheese - served as a cheese dish made from melted cheese, white wine and seasoning with white bread, cooked on an  alcohol burner/stove;

or meat - pieces of meat, which are cooked with hot fat floating on an alcohol burner/stove  (French)

on page 490:

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In another German dictionary:

[French fondue, really = melted, fondre]

a. It is a Swiss dish. A small piece of bread dips into melting and floating mixture of hard cheese, white wine and seasoning and serves as a dish.

b. It is a short form of meat fondue. 

c. Chinese fondue (google traslate translated as 中国火锅), use soup instead of oil.

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In an English dictionary,

on page 457:

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In another English dictionary, fondue is said to be derived from a French verb fondre's past participle:

on page 683 and 684:

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In another dictionary on page 883:

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In another dictionary on page 1043:

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On page 433 of French-English part:

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On page 773 In a French dictionary:

fondre:

I. As a transitive verb:

  1. Liquify by heating solid or pasty material into liquid

   2. Make something with molten material

   3. Combing somethings together by melting to form something; to amalgamate

II. As an intransitive verb:

   1. Heating to liquify

   2. Dissolve in a liquid

   3. Decrease quickly

III. As an intrasitive verb: melt on

IV. se fondre, as a reflective verb (acting on the subject itself in French) 

   1. Liquify itself

   2. Wait itself

   3. Combine together itself

 

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In google translate, fondue is translated as 火锅:

In a Chinese-English dictionary: 火锅 is hot pot

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In a Chinese-English dictionary, 火锅 is chafing dish:

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In google search:

 

Conclusions:

1. Fondue's origin is a French verb, fondre, meaning melt, dissolve, blend, merge, combine.

2. French verb's past participle is fondu. With an "e", fondue becomes a noun (feminine noun in French).

3. Fondue means

   a. A dish in which cubes of meat in hot oil cookd and served;

   b. A dish in which Cheese, bread, white wine and seasoning in hot oil cooked and served;

   c. A Chinese dish (Chinese fondue or 火锅)。The ingredients are not in oil but in soup.

4. I feel, fondue, you could also translated as 炖肉 in Chinese, or 炖 as a verb. In English, probably similar to slow cook or something like that.

5. You need more than one dictionary for finding the meaning of a word or in your translation work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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网络在线翻译的时代,难得有xia 先生这样出于爱好,用纸质字典认真专研的。能静心读书的人,让人敬佩!
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喔,想起了我抱着大部头字典慢慢啃的小时候,好亲切
移花接木
Oh man! orz
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xia23
谢谢大家
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7grizzly
Your library must be so well-off to throw away an OED :-)
7
7grizzly
A lot to learn here. Thanks for sharing.
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xia23
OED. I prefer to keep it. Did you notice that
7
7grizzly
Of course it's a keeper! I envy your purchase :-)
7
7grizzly
You don't find words like "apricity" in run-of-the-mill dict
x
xia23
No. Only found in OED.
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Zhuzitaba
画蛇添足一下:)我说我自己哈

有的字典没收它

7
7grizzly
That looks like a nice dictionary. What's the title?
Z
Zhuzitaba
751

页的那个(上):

朗文当代高级英语辞典(英英 英汉双解),近3000页 2004年

下面那个是

第六版牛津高阶英汉双解词典 二千多页 2004

7
7grizzly
牛津 seems to beat 朗文 in 'fondue.'
7
7grizzly
But neither gives the etymology.
Z
Zhuzitaba
嗯 都侧重于中文意思