sweet-and-sourとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

形容詞

sweet-and-sour (comparative more sweet-and-sour, superlative most sweet-and-sour)

1. (cooking) Having both sweet and sour or tart taste.
2. Having both positive and negative traits, or inspiring conflicting good and bad feelings.
   • 1982, Ward's Auto World, volume 18, numbers 1-6, page 65:

     Like an accordion at a country wedding producing sweet-and-sour notes, some importers are expanding their U.S. retail automotive operations while others are skinnying down.

   • 2014, Lloyd E. McIlveen, Improving on Love and Relationships:

     Humans utilize a kind of sweet and sour blend of love potion called charm.

同意語

• (inspiring good and bad feelings): bittersweet

派生語

• sweet-and-sour sauce

名詞

sweet-and-sour (countable and uncountable, plural sweet-and-sours)

1. Any dish that combines sweet and sour flavours, especially:
   • 1986, Fortitudine, page 3:

     There is a strong German ethnic streak in rural western Maryland and it shows in the cooking with its sweet-and-sours.

   1. A Chinese-style dish with sweet-and-sour sauce.
      • 1949, The Railroad Yardmaster:

        First we had tossed green salad, prepared by Sister McDonald and our two new members, and then our Chinese food - chow mein, rice, egg foo young, sweet and sours, bread sticks, chinese tea with fortune cakes, prepared and served by our Brother Yardmasters for a "Chinese Food" dinner.

      • 2003, Charles de Ledesma, Mark Lewis, Pauline Savage, Rough Guides (Firm), Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 417:

        Breakfast is served until 11am, after which delicious chilled beans, sweet and sours, and stir fries appear for around RM3 a portion.

      • 2009, Nepal:

        In contrast, this definitely isn't 'real' China – sticky sweet-and-sours and egg foo yong are the rule here – but it's quiet, cosy and tasty, and the price is right.

      • 2012 May 3, Doris Paterson, Willy & Me, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 70:

        This evening, Willy took me to eat at the Bamboo Palace. He had sweet and sour with two kinds of noodles and I had bean hot-pot.

   2. Candy with a sour taste, often dusted with fizzy sherbet.
      • 1970, Candy and Baked Snack Industry:

        No overwhelming sweetness, but a cool, refreshing after taste in your mints that lets delicate natural flavors come through. Same for tabletted sweet and sours, or gums

      • 2016 June 30, Stefan Hertmans, War and Turpentine, Random House, →ISBN:

        There are elderberry balls, boiled sweets with paper mottos, Katrien's caramels, candied anise, liquorice chew sticks and black liquorice laces, sweet-and-sours, and tart strawberry drops, all lined up in large glass jars.

      • 2022 October 6, Amy Beashel, We Are All Constellations, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

        Tala swore Jameson's face when she went down on him with a mouth still zinging from the sweet and sours she'd necked on the coach looked like he'd contracted something.

   3. A sweetened sour pickle, or a combination of sweet and sour pickles.
      • 1923, Western Canner and Packer:

        Sweet and sours are in sellers' favor as spot stocks are light and the market in the country is rather bullish and advancing.

      • 1962 07, House & Garden:

        Try the Pennsylvania Dutch idea of "sweet and sours" and put both a sweet conserve or chutney and a dish of pickles on the table.)

      • 2011 July 20, Thom Rock, Blueberry Fool: Memory, Moments, and Meaning, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN:

        Honey dills, bread n' butters, sweet and sours, gherkins, mustard pickles and relishes: everything's here.

参考

• agrodolce
• barbecue sauce