单词
cucumber
英 ['kju?k?mb?]
美['kj?,k?mb?]
基本信息
- n. 黄瓜；胡瓜
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词态变化
复数:?cucumbers;
中文词源
cucumber 黄瓜
来自拉丁语cucumerem,黄瓜。
英文词源
- cucumber
- cucumber: [14] English acquired this word as cucumer, by direct borrowing from Latin cucumer, which may originally have been a word of some pre-Italic Mediterranean language. The form spelled with a b did not appear until the 15th century. It seems to have been a blend of Middle English cucumer and Old French coucombre, which itself ultimately derived from Latin cucumer. Spellings based on the Old French form led to a pronunciation of the first syllable as ‘cow’, which persisted until the early 19th century.
- cucumber (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French cocombre (13c., Modern French concombre), from Latin cucumerem (nominative cucumis), perhaps from a pre-Italic Mediterranean language. The Latin word also is the source of Italian cocomero, Spanish cohombro, Portuguese cogombro. Replaced Old English eort?ppla (plural), literally "earth-apples."
Cowcumber was common form 17c.-18c., and that pronunciation lingered into 19c. Planted as a garden vegetable by 1609 by Jamestown colonists. Phrase cool as a cucumber (c. 1732) embodies ancient folk knowledge confirmed by science in 1970: inside of a field cucumber on a warm day is 20 degrees cooler than the air temperature.
双语例句
- 1. Cucumber is good for soothing tired eyes.
- 黄瓜有助于舒缓眼部疲劳。
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- 2. Cut the cucumber into match-sticks.
- 将黄瓜切成细条。
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- 3. Bess stabbed a slice of cucumber.
- 贝丝叉起一片黄瓜。
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- 4. A cucumber was sliced into rounds.
- 黄瓜被切成了圆片。
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- 5. He is as cool as a cucumber upon every act of atrocity.
- 他面对一切暴行都表现得冷静沉着.
来自《简明英汉词典》
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