- 1葡萄柚（不是葡萄，也不是文旦／柚子）
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. 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. Pink grapefruit is a little sweeter than the pale kind. It is an ordinary food word, not a fancy one.
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.
原始詞典資料3 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。
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.
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。