結成硬殼的沉積
兩個意思是同一個東西的兩個舞台:先有酒桶裡的硬殼,後有牙齒上的硬殼。
noun · C1
A hard yellowish layer that slowly builds up on teeth, formed out of the soft plaque that is left sitting on them.
牙結石
這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字,意思沒有關係, 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 牙結石 · 脾氣很兇的人;難纏的人
Think of a crust that builds itself. Something is carried in a liquid, the liquid sits still, and what it carries settles against the wall and goes hard. Left alone it into a layer you cannot wipe away — you have to . That layer is tartar, whether the liquid is grape juice turning into wine in a barrel or the film of and food on a tooth.
English took the word through Old French tartre and Medieval Latin tartarum, where it named the crust left by wine. The teeth sense is the same picture applied to a new surface.
這個字經過古法文 tartre、中世紀拉丁文 tartarum 進到英文,最早指的就是釀酒留下的那層硬殼。牙齒上的用法是把同一個畫面搬到另一個表面上,字本身沒有換。
Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:969154500)
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結成硬殼的沉積
兩個意思是同一個東西的兩個舞台:先有酒桶裡的硬殼,後有牙齒上的硬殼。
noun · C1
A hard yellowish layer that slowly builds up on teeth, formed out of the soft plaque that is left sitting on them.
牙結石
noun · C2
The hard reddish crust that settles inside a barrel while grape juice is turning into wine; cleaned up, it is the source of the white powder sold as cream of tartar.
酒石;酒垢
A second word, same spelling
A different word that happens to look the same. One way to hold it: a person you handle carefully, because you never know which sentence will set the temper off. Nothing here settles or hardens — this tartar is about a person, and it comes from the name Tartar used figuratively in older English writing.
The dictionary entry for this noun says simply: from figurative use of Tartar, the name of the peoples of Tartary, who older European writing pictured as fierce.
字典對這個名詞的來源只寫一句:來自 Tartar 的比喻用法。Tartar 是塔塔人的名字,舊時歐洲的文字把他們寫成凶悍難惹,字就被借去形容脾氣兇的人。這是字的來歷,不是對那個族群的描述。
Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:969164232, etymology_number 2)