- [uncountable]
a hard brown sweet food made from cocoa beans, used in cooking to add taste to cakes, etc. or eaten as a sweet 巧克力；朱古力 a chocolate bar 一条巧克力 chocolate chip cookies 巧克力碎片曲奇 a chocolate cake 巧克力蛋糕 a chocolate factory 巧克力制造厂 a bar/piece of chocolate 一条／一块巧克力 strawberries dipped in chocolate 蘸巧克力的草莓
Extra ExamplesHe broke off a few squares of chocolate. 他掰下几块巧克力。 Melt 100g of cooking chocolate in a basin over hot water. 把100克烹饪用的巧克力置于盆中放在热水上熔化。 She broke a bar of chocolate into four pieces. 她把一块巧克力打碎成四块。 Stir until the chocolate has melted. 搅拌巧克力至其熔化。 a box of brazil nuts coated in chocolate 一盒裹着巧克力的巴西坚果 chocolate chip cookies 巧克力碎片曲奇
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dark
- plain
- unsweetened
- …
- bar
- slab
- bit
- …
- break
- break up
- grate
- …
- melt
- bar
- chip
- chunk
- …
- [countable]
a sweet that is made of or covered with chocolate 巧克力糖；夹心巧克力糖 I gave her a box of hand-made Belgian chocolates. 我给了她一盒手工做的比利时巧克力。 Would you like another chocolate? 你想再来一块巧克力吗？
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- soft-centred
- handmade
- box
- box
- [uncountable, countable] (British English) (also hot chocolate British and North American English)
a drink made by mixing chocolate powder with hot water or milk; a cup of this drink 巧克力热饮；一杯巧克力热饮 a mug of drinking chocolate 一杯巧克力饮料
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hot
- steaming
- drinking
- …
- cup
- mug
- drink
- sip
- [uncountable]
a dark brown colour 深褐色；巧克力色
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘a drink made with chocolate’): from French chocolat or Spanish chocolate, from Nahuatl chocolatl ‘food made from cacao seeds’, influenced by unrelated cacaua-atl ‘drink made from cacao’.