melon
英['mel?n]
美['m?l?n]
- n. 瓜；甜瓜；大肚子；圓鼓鼓像瓜似的東西
- n. (Melon)人名；(意、西、葡)梅隆
詞態變化
復數:?melons;
中文詞源
melon 甜瓜，香瓜
來自拉丁語melonem,來自希臘語melopepon,葫蘆果，葫蘆狀的蘋果，來自melon,蘋果，詞源同malic,pepon,一種葫蘆，可能來自pepon,熟的，來自PIE*pekw,煮，詞源同cook,dyspeptic.后用以指甜瓜，香瓜，哈蜜瓜一類的瓜果。需注意的是，melon在希臘語除了指蘋果，也指其它各種各樣的水果，尤其是外來品種，如peach,字面意思為波斯蘋果。
英文詞源
- melon
- melon: [14] Greek mēlon actually meant ‘apple’. But combination with pépōn ‘ripe’ (a relative of English peptic [17]) produced mēlopépōn, which was used for ‘melon’. This passed into Latin as mēlopepō, but the -pepō part was subsequently dropped, giving mēlō – source, via Old French, of English melon.
=> marmalade - melon (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French melon (13c.), from Medieval Latin melonem (nominative melo), from Latin melopeponem, a kind of pumpkin, from Greek melopepon "gourd-apple" (name for several kinds of gourds bearing sweet fruit), from melon "apple" (see malic) + pepon, a kind of gourd, probably noun use of pepon "ripe" (see pumpkin).
In Greek, melon was used in a generic way for all foreign fruits (compare similar use of apple). The Greek plural of "melon" was used from ancient times for "a girl's breasts."
雙語例句
- 1. Next, she disembowelled a melon with a quiet fury.
- 接著，她悶著頭憤憤地掏空瓜瓤。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Cut the melon into chunks.
- 把瓜切塊。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. a slice of melon
- 一片瓜
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. This melon weighs more than ten jin, I should think.
- 這個瓜怕有十幾斤吧.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 5. Would you like some melon?
- 你要吃點瓜 嗎 ?
來自《簡明英漢詞典》