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a white substance that is added to food to make it taste better or to preserve it. Salt is obtained from mines and is also found in seawater. It is sometimes called common salt to show that it is different from other chemical salts. Its chemical name is sodium chloride. 盐；食盐 Pass the salt, please. 请把盐递过来。 a pinch of salt (= a small amount of it) 一撮盐 Season with salt and pepper. 放盐和胡椒粉调味。 Sprinkle with salt to taste. 撒盐调味。 Avoid adding table salt to your food. 避免在食物中添加食盐。 salt and vinegar crisps 盐醋薯片
Extra ExamplesTopics Fooda1Don't put so much salt on your chips! 别在你的薯条上放那么多盐！ He could taste the salt from the water in his mouth. 他能够尝出自己嘴里的水有盐。 He wants to reduce his salt intake. 他想减少盐的摄入量。 I could smell the salt air as it whipped through my hair. 当海风掠过我的头发，我闻到了大海的咸味。 Most foodstuffs contain some salt. 食品大多都含有一定量的盐分。 a diet low in salt 低盐饮食
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- mineral
- rock
- sea
- …
- grain
- pinch
- taste
- add
- put in
- …
- crystals
- solution
- content
- …
- high in salt
- low in salt
- salt and pepper
- …
- [countable] (
chemistry 化学 a chemical formed from a metal and an acid 盐（金属和酸组成的化学物质） mineral salts 矿盐
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- mineral
- rock
- sea
- …
- grain
- pinch
- taste
- add
- put in
- …
- crystals
- solution
- content
- …
- high in salt
- low in salt
- salt and pepper
- …
- salts[plural]
a substance that looks or tastes like salt 形状（或味道）像盐的物质 bath salts (= used to give a pleasant smell to bath water) （放在洗澡水中使之芳香的）浴盐
Word OriginOld English sealt (noun), sealtan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zout and German Salz (nouns), from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sal, Greek hals ‘salt’.
Idioms
like a dose of salts
- (British English, old-fashioned, informal)
very fast and easily 迅速轻易地；一下子 He got through the housework like a dose of salts. 他轻松地做完了家务。
rub salt into the wound | rub salt into somebody’s wounds
to make a difficult experience even more difficult for somebody 在伤口上抹盐；使雪上加霜
the salt of the earth
a very good and honest person that you can always depend on 世上的盐，地上的盐（指善良而诚实的人）
take something with a pinch of salt
(North American English also take something with a grain of salt)
to be careful about believing that something is completely true 不完全相信；半信半疑 If I were you, I’d take everything he says with a pinch of salt. 如果我是你，我会对他说的每一句话都半信半疑。
worth your/its salt