同名的樹與果實
兩個意思是同一個畫面的兩個部分:樹,以及樹掉下來的東西。英文沿用同一組字,就像 orange 同時是橘子樹和橘子。
noun · B2
A large tree that has white or pink flowers and grows shiny brown nuts. It is common in the cooler countries of the northern half of the world.
七葉樹(馬栗樹)
Stand under one big tree. In spring it is full of white or pink flowers; in autumn the hard, shiny brown nuts come down onto the path. English gives both of those things the same two words, so the tree and what it drops share a single name, and only the sentence around the words tells you which one is on the table.
The packet's Wiktionary entry says the English name is a calque of the Latin Castanea equina, literally 'equine chestnut', so the horse in the name travelled in with the translation.
來源資料說這個英文名字是拉丁學名 Castanea equina 的直譯,字面就是「馬的栗子」。所以名字裡的 horse 是隨著翻譯一起進來的,不是描述這棵樹跟馬的關係。
packet evidence, Wiktionary 'horse chestnut' etymology_text: 'Calque of translingual Castanea equina (literally "equine chestnut").'
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同名的樹與果實
兩個意思是同一個畫面的兩個部分:樹,以及樹掉下來的東西。英文沿用同一組字,就像 orange 同時是橘子樹和橘子。
noun · B2
A large tree that has white or pink flowers and grows shiny brown nuts. It is common in the cooler countries of the northern half of the world.
七葉樹(馬栗樹)
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。
horse chestnutnoun/ˌhɔːs ˈtʃɛsnʌt/
Any of several tree species of genus Aesculus, especially Aesculus hippocastanum, common in temperate northern hemisphere.
The large nutlike seed of these trees.
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。