• n. 漢堡包，漢堡；牛肉餅，肉餅；碎牛肉
• n. (Hamburger)人名；(英)漢堡；(瑞典)漢布里耶；(德)漢布格爾

來自Hamburg,德國城市漢堡。通常認為因19世紀大量德國漢堡移民將這種食物引進美國而得名，并由該詞衍生后綴-burger,包子。

hamburger

hamburger: [19] As its inherent beefiness amply demonstrates, the hamburger has nothing to do with ham. It originated in the German city and port of Hamburg. The fashioning of conveniently sized patties was a common way of dealing with minced beef in northern Europe and the Baltic in the 19th century, and it appears that German sailors or emigrants took the delicacy across the Atlantic with them to America.

There it was called a Hamburg steak or, using the German adjectival form, a Hamburger steak. That term is first recorded in the late 1880s, and by the first decade of the 20th century the steak had been dropped. By the 1930s the hamburger had become an American fast-food staple, and products similar in concept but with different ingredients inspired variations on its name: beefburger, cheeseburger, steakburger, and so on; and by the end of the decade plain burger was well established in the language.

hamburger (n.)

1610s, Hamburger "native of Hamburg." Also used of ships from Hamburg. From 1838 as a type of excellent black grape indigenous to Tyrolia; 1857 as a variety of hen; the meat product so called from 1880 (as hamburg steak), named for the German city, though no certain connection has ever been put forth, and there may not be one unless it be that Hamburg was a major port of departure for German immigrants to United States. Meaning "a sandwich consisting of a bun and a patty of grilled hamburger meat" attested by 1909, short for hamburger sandwich (1902). Shortened form burger attested from 1939; beefburger was attempted 1940, in an attempt to make the main ingredient more explicit, after the -burger had taken on a life of its own as a suffix (compare cheeseburger, first attested 1938).

1. Avoid unhealthy foods such as hamburger and chips.

不要吃不健康食品，如漢堡和薯條。

來自柯林斯例句

2. We stopped at a drive-in for a hamburger.

我們在一家“免下車”餐館停下來吃漢堡包。

來自《權威詞典》

3. a hamburger with all the fixings

有各種配料的漢堡包

來自《權威詞典》

4. There was a hamburger stand at the entrance to the station.

車站入口處有一個賣漢堡的小攤.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. I can hot the hamburger up in a minute.

我馬上就能把漢堡包熱好.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》