单词
ale
英 [e?l]
美[el]
基本信息
- n. 麦芽酒
- n. (Ale)人名；(塞、几、葡)阿莱；(伊朗)阿勒
CET6TEM4IELTS低频词常用词汇
词态变化
复数:?ales;
助记提示
音译“艾尔酒、艾尔啤酒”，“艾尔”啤酒是英国人中世纪酿制成功的，颇受王公贵族的喜爱。不过最早的“艾尔”啤酒是不加酒花的麦酒，酒花1524年由荷兰传入英国。 英国女王伊丽莎白一世在位45年，外出巡视均要专程携带“艾尔”啤酒以备饮用，女王一直钟情“艾尔”啤酒，竟然终身未嫁，落个“爱江山更爱艾尔”的美谈。
中文词源
ale 啤酒
来自PIE *alu, 苦的。词源同alum, 矾土。
英文词源
- ale
- ale: [OE] Old English ealu ‘ale’ goes back to a Germanic root *aluth-, which also produced Old Norse ?l (Scandinavian languages still use alerelated words, whereas other Germanic languages now only use beer-related words; English is the only one to retain both). Going beyond Germanic in time takes us back to the word’s ultimate Indo-European source, a base meaning ‘bitter’ which is also represented in alum and aluminium. Ale and beer seem to have been virtually synonymous to the Anglo- Saxons; various distinctions in usage have developed over the centuries, such as that ale is made without hops, and is heavier (or some would say lighter) than beer, but most of the differences have depended on local usage.
The word bridal is intimately connected with ale. Nowadays used as an adjective, and therefore subconsciously associated with other adjectives ending in -al, in Old English it was a noun, literally ‘bride ale’, that is, a beer-drinking session to celebrate a marriage. - ale (n.)
- Old English ealu "ale, beer," from Proto-Germanic *aluth- (cognates: Old Saxon alo, Old Norse ?l), perhaps from PIE root meaning "bitter" (cognates: Latin alumen "alum"), or from PIE *alu-t "ale," from root *alu-, which has connotations of "sorcery, magic, possession, intoxication." The word was borrowed from Germanic into Lithuanian (alus) and Old Church Slavonic (olu).
In the fifteenth century, and until the seventeenth, ale stood for the unhopped fermented malt liquor which had long been the native drink of these islands. Beer was the hopped malt liquor introduced from the Low Countires in the fifteenth century and popular first of all in the towns. By the eighteenth century, however, all malt liquor was hopped and there had been a silent mutation in the meaning of the two terms. For a time the terms became synonymous, in fact, but local habits of nomenclature still continued to perpetuate what had been a real difference: 'beer' was the malt liquor which tended to be found in towns, 'ale' was the term in general use in the country districts. [Peter Mathias, "The Brewing Industry in England," Cambridge University Press, 1959]
Meaning "festival or merry-meeting at which much ale was drunk" was in Old English (see bridal).
双语例句
- 1. I live mostly on coffee and ginger ale.
- 我主要喝咖啡和姜汁汽水。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. He liked the bitter taste of the ale.
- 他喜欢麦芽酒的苦味.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. I sometimes enjoy a pint of ale.
- 有时候我喝一品脱浓啤酒.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. The ale will fine.
- 啤酒会变清的.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. Come birl the ale , please.
- 来给我倒杯啤酒!
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
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