- 1黑莓（水果；帶刺灌木上的那種。手機品牌也曾叫這個名字，但是另一回事）
A blackberry is a small, dark fruit — black or deep purple when it is ripe — that grows on a thorny bush. The bush is a kind of : long, arching stems with sharp points, often along paths, railway edges, and wild ground. The fruit is really a cluster of tiny juicy balls stuck together, not one smooth berry like a . Ripe ones taste sweet-sharp; ones are red and sour. People pick them in late summer and eat them straight, or cook them in pies, , and jam, often with apple. Though actually, the same word can be a verb: to blackberry is to go out picking the fruit (and blackberrying is the outing). The plant spreads easily and the thorns catch clothes, so a “nice walk to get blackberries” is often a scratched-arm walk. This entry is the fruit, not the old mobile-phone brand that copied the name.
From the word’s history
From Old English blæcberġe; black + berry.
源自古英文 blæcberġe，就是 black 加 berry。
組成From Middle English blakberie / blakeberie, from Old English blæcberġe: black + berry.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
BlackBerrynoun
- 1
A wireless handheld device, a cross between a cellphone and a mobile email appliance and Internet-capable PDA, marketed by BlackBerry Limited.
- Knowing that DA, Inc. was using BlackBerrys, the CEO of the competition hired an underground hacker to come up with a way to thwart the competition.
- A few days ago, I took a walk with my wife and did not take my BlackBerry! That's progress. Of course, I reached into my empty pockets six or seven times, so clearly I have a long way to go.
BlackBerryverb
- 1
To send a text message or e-mail with a BlackBerry device.
- "I BlackBerried a sort of risque joke message to this friend of mine — it was totally a joke — but, um, I accidentally sent it to two hundred strangers. […]
- We've interviewed female entrepreneurs who say they were BlackBerrying up into the final stages of labor; […]
blackberrynoun/ˈblækbəɹi/
- 1
A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
- 2
The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
- Here at the creek, a ways off from the trail, we have blackberries for now, not as fat and sweet as they get, but I like them tart, with that little bit of red still at their tops, or if they’re just a little hard and not so soft they come off when you pull at them and leave your fingers stained.
- 3
informalAny Rubus berry that is black or blackish; the plant that produces it.
- 4
dialectalThe blackcurrant.
blackberryverb/ˈblækbəɹi/
- 1
To gather or forage for blackberries.
- She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun
- My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。