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Benedictine is a strong sweet made from herbs — a French drink, deep golden, sipped in small glasses after dinner or mixed into cocktails. As a drink name it is a proper noun and takes a capital B: Bénédictine, often written without the accent in English.
Benedictine是「班尼狄克丁」這種酒 is a strong sweet liqueur made from herbs是一種用香草做的味道濃甜的利口酒 — a French drink法國酒, deep golden顏色深金黃, sipped in small glasses after dinner飯後用小酒杯啜飲 or mixed into cocktails或拿去調酒. As a drink name當作酒名時 it它 is a proper noun and takes a capital B是專有名詞、字首大寫 B: Bénédictine寫成 Bénédictine, often written without the accent in English在英文裡常常省略重音符號.
The name comes from monks. The makers said the recipe was created by Benedictine monks in a French monastery, and the bottle carries the letters D.O.M., short for a Latin phrase meaning "to God, most good, most great." Here is the "though actually" part: historians are fairly sure that story was invented by a 19th-century wine merchant who wanted the drink to sound ancient and holy. The monks are the marketing, not the recipe.
The name這個名字 comes from monks來自修士. The makers said製造商說 the recipe was created by Benedictine monks這個配方是本篤會修士創造的 in a French monastery在法國一座修道院裡, and而且 the bottle carries the letters D.O.M.酒瓶上印著 D.O.M. 這幾個字母, short for a Latin phrase是某句拉丁文的縮寫 meaning "to God, most good, most great"意思是「獻給至善至大的天主」. Here is the "though actually" part但其實, historians are fairly sure歷史學家相當確定 that story那個故事 was invented by a 19th-century wine merchant是十九世紀一位酒商編出來的 who wanted the drink to sound ancient and holy為了讓這款酒聽起來古老又神聖. The monks修士的角色 are the marketing是行銷, not the recipe不是配方本身.
The word has other lives you should recognise when reading. A Benedictine (noun) is a monk or nun following the rule of St Benedict, and Benedictine (adjective) describes anything belonging to that order — a Benedictine monastery, Benedictine monks.
The word這個字 has other lives you should recognise when reading還有其他你閱讀時該認得的用法. A Benedictine (noun)當名詞的 a Benedictine is a monk or nun following the rule of St Benedict是遵守聖本篤會規的修士或修女, and Benedictine (adjective)當形容詞的 Benedictine describes anything belonging to that order則用來形容屬於這個修會的東西 — a Benedictine monastery像 a Benedictine monastery（本篤會修道院）, Benedictine monks或 Benedictine monks（本篤會修士）.
And in a restaurant, eggs Benedict is a different thing again: a breakfast dish, no connection to the drink.
And in a restaurant另外在餐廳裡, eggs Benedict is a different thing again又是完全不同的東西: a breakfast dish是一道早餐料理, no connection to the drink跟這款酒沒有關係.
組成From French bénédictin, from Latin benedictus meaning "blessed" — the name of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the 6th-century Italian monk. Benedictus itself is bene ("well") + dictus ("spoken"), so the root idea is "well spoken of, blessed." On the surface: Benedict + -ine, the ending that means "belonging to."
同家族的字
- benedictionsame bene- + dict-: a blessing, words spoken well over someone
- benefitsame bene- ("well"): something that does you good
- dictionarysame dict- ("speak, say"): a book of words and what they say
- predictsame dict-: to say something before it happens
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Benedictinenoun
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A monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict of Nursia.
- Some of her most interesting remarks on writing appear in her letters to Sister Mariella Gable, a strong-minded Minnesota Benedictine who admired O'Connor greatly. In the fifties, O'Connor tells a friend, when Sister Mariella's bishop ordered her to stop teaching Catcher in the Rye, she defied him and was banished.
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A type of liqueur originating from the Benedictine cloister of Fécamp in France, made from cognac together with herb and spice extracts.
- Cripps differed from Partridge there, and proceeded to prove, by personal instances, that the safest thing for a man to drink was benedictine.
- Many liqueurs, among them chartreuse and benedictine, have long been held in great esteem as aphrodisiac aids.
Benedictineadj
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Of or pertaining to St. Benedict of Nursia.
- Hypothetically, Srinivasan suggests network states for people who eat specific diets (kosher, keto), for people who don’t like FDA regulation, for people who don’t like cancel culture, for people who want to live like Benedictine monks, for people who might want to limit internet use by putting public buildings in Faraday cages.
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Of or pertaining to the Benedictine Order.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。