曬乾的那一顆
這是字義的起點,也是名字的來源:從科林斯運來的迷你葡萄乾。它的家在廚房和烤箱裡。
noun · B1
A small dried grape, dark and sweet, used mostly in baking. Currants are mixed into cakes, buns, and biscuits.
小葡萄乾
A very small dark fruit, no bigger than the tip of a finger, that comes in bunches. Dry it and it goes into a cake; leave it on the bush and it stays sharp enough to need sugar.
Borrowed from French raisin de Corinthe, literally 'grape of Corinth', the Greek city these tiny dried grapes were shipped from. The word is a doublet of Corinth; Dutch krent is a cognate.
這個字借自法文 raisin de Corinthe,字面是「科林斯的葡萄」——科林斯是希臘的城市,這種極小顆的葡萄乾早期從那裡運出來。也就是說,currant 和 Corinth 其實是同一個源頭,一個地名被磨成了水果名。荷蘭文的 krent 是它的同源字。
Wiktionary entry for currant, etymology section (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:319853515)
Two branches
曬乾的那一顆
這是字義的起點,也是名字的來源:從科林斯運來的迷你葡萄乾。它的家在廚房和烤箱裡。
noun · B1
A small dried grape, dark and sweet, used mostly in baking. Currants are mixed into cakes, buns, and biscuits.
小葡萄乾
還長在樹上的那一串
同樣小小圓圓、成串生長的果子,只是還沒離開枝頭。名字被借過來之後,連那叢樹也一起用了同一個字。
noun · B2
A small round berry, red, black, or white, that grows in bunches on a bush. Currants taste sharp, so they are usually cooked with sugar, or made into juice and jam.
醋栗
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。
Currantname
A surname from Old French.
currantnoun/ˈkʌɹənt/
A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape.
The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, white, black or red.
A shrub bearing such fruit.
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。