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    A grapefruit is a large round fruit in the orange family, with a thick skin, yellow on the outside, and pale yellow or pink inside. It looks like a big orange, but it is usually more bitter and more sour, so some people eat it with a little sugar. You cut it in half and spoon it out, or you drink the juice.

    A grapefruit is a large round fruit in the orange familyGrapefruit(葡萄柚)是柑橘家族裡一種大而圓的水果 with a thick skin, yellow on the outside, and pale yellow or pink inside皮很厚,外皮是黃色的,裡面是淡黃色或粉紅色。It looks like a big orange它看起來像一顆大柳丁 but it is usually more bitter and more sour但通常比較苦、比較酸 so some people eat it with a little sugar所以有些人會加一點糖再吃。You cut it in half and spoon it out你可以把它切半用湯匙挖著吃 or you drink the juice或是喝它的果汁。

    The name looks like grape plus fruit, and the usual story is that the fruits hang on the tree in bunches, a bit like grapes. Though actually, another idea is that it started as “great fruit” — grapefruit comes from the pomelo, whose old scientific name means “great citrus” — and the sound slowly became grape-fruit. Nobody is sure which story is the real one.

    The name looks like grape plus fruit這個名字看起來像grape(葡萄)加上fruit(水果) and the usual story is that the fruits hang on the tree in bunches, a bit like grapes常見的說法是這種水果會一串串掛在樹上,有點像葡萄。Though actually不過其實 another idea is that it started as "great fruit"還有一種說法是它原本是『great fruit(大水果)』 — grapefruit comes from the pomelo, whose old scientific name means "great citrus"——grapefruit源自pomelo(柚子),它舊的學名意思是『偉大的柑橘』 — and the sound slowly became grape-fruit——這個發音才慢慢變成grape-fruit。Nobody is sure which story is the real one沒有人確定哪一個說法才是真的。

    Pink grapefruit is a little sweeter than the pale kind. It is an ordinary food word, not a fancy one.

    Pink grapefruit is a little sweeter than the pale kindPink grapefruit(紅肉葡萄柚)比淡色的那種稍微甜一點。It is an ordinary food word這是一個很普通的食物用字 not a fancy one不是什麼講究的字。

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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組成Widely taken as grape + fruit, a marketing-style name from the early 1800s, because the fruits hang in grape-like clusters. Another theory: it began as “great fruit” (from the pomelo’s name Citrus grandis, “great citrus”) and the sound became grape-fruit.

同家族的字

  • grapethe first half, if the usual grape + fruit story is right
  • fruitthe second half of the compound

原始詞典資料3 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。

grapefruitnoun/ˈɡɹeɪ̯pfɹuːt/

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    The tree of the species Citrus paradisi, a hybrid of Citrus maxima and sweet orange.

    • Results have begun to come in and at Comfort Castle this month I spent a useful and happy half day carting round 8 children in my car to their homes where we all helped to fill in with good soil and manure, their excellently dug holes and planted the grapefruit.
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    The large spherical tart fruit produced by this tree.

    • Grapefruit is high in vitamin C. The pink and red varieties contain vitamin A (betacarotene) and lycopene, an antioxidant that may help prevent cancer. Grapefruit contains a chemical that can alter intestinal absorption of some medications and lead to higher than normal blood levels of some drugs and potential problems.
    • Once loaded by Canaveral, the grapefruit are transported to Japan, where the shipments are unloaded by employees of Japanese stevedoring companies. The grapefruit are then received by the Japanese importers.
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    vulgarLarge breasts; by extension, a woman with large breasts.

    • Cupping her grapefruits in her hands, she closed her eyes and imagined her date grasping them, exploring their size, weight, and firmness.
    • Dan hauled her to the carpet as she fell limp over him. She stretched out on her back, her grapefruits, fitted snugly into her sturdy cotton bra, rock hard under his nose.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。