Sherry
['ʃɛri]
解释:
(noun.) dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif.
编辑:谢恩--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.
艾德琳校对
解释:
n. a name derived from Xeres or Jerez de la Frontera near Cadiz and applied to the better kind of white wines grown in the neighbourhood of Xeres.—Sherry cobbler a cobbler made with sherry.—Natural sherry a sherry having from two to four per cent. of spirit added to make it keep.
整理:理查德
例句:
- There were lockers all round, and Wilson, the sham chaplain, knocked one of them in, and pulled out a dozen of brown sherry. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Sherry wine,' returned Mr Riderhood, in the same sharp tone, 'if you're capable of it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Let's rinse our mouths with a drop of burnt sherry; the last-comer shall stand it, Mivins shall fetch it, and I'll help to drink it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- He sat placidly perusing the newspaper, with his little head on one side, and a glass of warm sherry negus at his elbow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- They burn sherry very well here,' said Mr Inspector, as a piece of local intelligence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- But for a glass or two of sherry, I don't think I could have had my mind so much upon the stretch as it has been. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Not your sherry warm, with lemon-peel and nutmeg? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- I shall send my father some rare old sherry, such as you cannot buy in England,--(such stuff as I've got in the bottle before me)! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Mr. Bounderby (whom he just knew by sight), at lunch on chop and sherry. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Well, then, give us a sherry cobbler. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- He fortified himself with a little more sherry. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- My lady always had a regular distribution of good sound port and sherry among the infirm poor; and Miss Rachel wishes the custom to be kept up. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive hotels. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Shall we go over to Sherry's for a cup of tea? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Will you take port wine, sir, or sherry wine, sir? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
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