soda

noun

/ˈsəʊdə/

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(also soda water)
[uncountable, countable] fizzy water (= water with bubbles) used as a drink on its own or to mix with alcoholic drinks or fruit juice (originally made with sodium bicarbonate)汽水；苏打水
- Add some soda to the whisky, please.请在威士忌中加点苏打水。
- a Scotch and soda一杯加汽水的苏格兰威士忌
Topics Drinksb1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- club
- cream
- orange
- …
… of soda
- bottle
- can
- glass
- …
verb + soda
- drink
- sip
- get
- …
soda + noun
- water
- pop
- bottle
- …
phrases
- a Scotch and soda
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(also soda water)
[countable] a glass of soda一杯汽水
(also old-fashioned soda pop)
(both North American English) [uncountable, countable] a sweet fizzy drink (= a drink with bubbles) made with soda water, a fruit taste and sometimes ice cream苏打汽水（加果味，有时加入冰淇淋）
- Do you have any diet soda?你有减肥汽水吗？
- He had an ice cream soda.他喝了一杯冰淇淋果味汽水。
see also cream soda
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- club
- cream
- orange
- …
… of soda
- bottle
- can
- glass
- …
verb + soda
- drink
- sip
- get
- …
soda + noun
- water
- pop
- bottle
- …
phrases
- a Scotch and soda
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[uncountable] a chemical substance in common use that is a compound of sodium 苏打；纯碱；无水碳酸钠see also baking soda, bicarbonate of soda, caustic soda, sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate, washing soda
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- caustic
- baking
- washing
- …
soda + noun
- lime
- lake
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Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (3)): from medieval Latin, from Arabic suwwad ‘saltwort’ (a plant whose ashes were formally used in soap making).