cherry
英 ['tʃerɪ]
美 ['tʃɛri]
- n. 櫻桃；櫻桃樹；如櫻桃的鮮紅色；處女膜，處女
- n. (Cherry)人名；(法、阿拉伯)謝裏；(英)徹麗(女子教名Charity的昵稱)
助記提示
1. 櫻桃還有一個俗稱叫“車厘子”，車厘子就是英語單詞cherry(櫻桃)的音譯，它們在台灣、廣東及香港被直譯做“車厘子”。但它不是指個小色紅皮薄的中國櫻桃，而是產於美國、加拿大、智利等美洲國家的個大皮厚的進口櫻桃。中國目前也有車厘子果樹的引種，不過還沒有形成規模。（櫻桃的英文名叫cherry，即“車厘”，櫻桃果就翻譯作“車厘子”）。
中文詞源
cherry 櫻桃來自拉丁詞cerasus,櫻桃，詞源同cerise。
英文詞源
- cherry
- cherry: [14] Cherry comes ultimately from Greek kerasós ‘cherry tree’, which in Latin became cerasus. This was borrowed into the Germanic languages in prehistoric times, producing, as well as German kirsche, Old English ciris ‘cherry’, which died out in the 11th century. In Vulgar Latin, meanwhile, cerasus had become ceresia, which passed into Old Northern French as cherise (source of modern French cerise). When it was borrowed into English, its -s ending was misinterpreted as indicating plurality, so a ‘new’ singular cherry was created.
- cherry (n.)
- c. 1300, earlier in surname Chyrimuth (1266, literally "Cherry-mouth"); from Anglo-French cherise, from Old North French cherise (Old French, Modern French cerise, 12c.), from Vulgar Latin *ceresia, from late Greek kerasian "cherry," from Greek kerasos "cherry tree," possibly from a language of Asia Minor. Mistaken in Middle English for a plural and stripped of its -s (compare pea).
Old English had ciris "cherry" from a West Germanic borrowing of the Vulgar Latin word (cognate with German Kirsch), but it died out after the Norman invasion and was replaced by the French word. Meaning "maidenhead, virginity" is from 1889, U.S. slang, from supposed resemblance to the hymen, but perhaps also from the long-time use of cherries as a symbol of the fleeting quality of life's pleasures.
雙語例句
- 1. The cherry blossom came out early in Washington this year.
- 今年華盛頓的櫻花開得很早。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. It's lovely in the spring when the cherry blossom is out.
- 春天櫻花開放,十分美麗.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. Mrs. Cherry seems altogether weighed down by her work plus parenthood.
- 徹裏夫人似乎被她的工作和母親的責任累壞了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. The boy made a switch from the branch of a cherry tree.
- 這個男孩用櫻桃樹枝做了一條鞭子.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. The cherry trees cast all their blossoms after the storm.
- 風暴過後,櫻花全部落掉.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》