可以看到，这四部词典中，都将soup归类为(liquid) food，即“液体状食物”。02
网络讨论
网站：https://theoutline.com/post/2513/is-soup-a-beverage-or-a-food要点摘录：1. Campbell’s memorable 1970s- and 1980s-era advertising slogan would have you believe “Soup Is Good Food.”注：Campbell是商标名，生产“金宝”汤料和汤罐头。2. “Soup is a food. Most beverages are also food. Wrap your brain around that! I think that the only beverage that isn't a food is water,” Ryan answered on Yahoo.Ryan很夸张啊。他说：“汤是食物（food）。大多数饮料也是食物。唯一不是食物的饮料只有水了”。3. Keyl Edwards, Software Engineer at Microsoft (2012-present), told Quora: “food… Just because it’s a liquid doesn’t make it a beverage. By that logic, liquid anti-freeze is a great beverage.”Keyl说：“不能因为是液体状态的就要认定它为饮料。照那样的逻辑，不会冰冻的液体也都是饮料了。”03
历史探究
网站：https://www.foodtimeline.org/foodsoups.html要点摘录：Soup (and stews, pottages, porridges, gruels, etc.) evolved according to local ingredients and tastes. New England chowder, Spanish gazpacho, Russian borscht, Italian minestrone, French onion, Chinese won ton and Campbell's tomato ... are all variations on the same theme.汤（及炖菜，浓汤，粥，稀饭等）会因为当地的配料和口味而各有不同。新英格兰的chowder（海鲜杂烩浓汤），西班牙的gazpacho（凉菜汤），俄罗斯的borscht（甜菜浓汤，罗宋汤），意大利的minestrone（通心粉汤），法国的洋葱汤，中国的won ton（馄饨），金宝公司的番茄汤，制作方式上大同小异。04
专家观点
网站：https://theoutline.com/post/2513/is-soup-a-beverage-or-a-food专家：INTRODUCTION人物介绍Amy Bentleya food historian and professorthe Department of Nutrition and Food StudiesNew York University主要观点：“There’s a continuum,” she said.“In my class we talk about this topic and I use the example of tomatoes. There’s a continuum of thin to thick and diluted to concentrated flavor. So, if you had a tomato continuum the one side would be tomato water or tomato essence.” This would be a thin, tomato-y steam, or water-type liquid with some tomato flavor. “Those very thin essences of flavor are categorized as drinks mostly.” But moving along the continuum, to broth, to purees, to something chunkier, shows a shift from beverage to food. “And once you move to some chunks in the soup, I think then it really becomes a food.”Amy Bentley认为，取决于实质性食料的多寡。红色这句话很关键，当汤里面有块状物（无论是硬块还是软块，大块还是小块）的时候，就是food了。简而言之，可以用下图表示：
看下图：同一家厂商，同样是水和西红柿的混合物啊，左边的是juice，右边的是soup！
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语言习惯
灵魂拷问：“eat soup” or “drink soup”?这篇文章中呈现了《当代美国英语语料库》中的查找结果：
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