Currant
['kʌr(ə)nt] or ['kɝənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams.
(noun.) small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking.
(noun.) any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants.
手打:南希--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.
(n.) The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.
(n.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.
錄入:罗兰
解釋/意思:
n. a small kind of raisin or dried grape imported from the Levant: the fruit of several species of ribes.—ns. Curr′ant-jell′y; Curr′ant-wine.
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例句/造句/用法:
- At seven he painted the Battle of Waterloo with tiger-lily pollen and black-currant juice, in the absence of water-colours. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- On the plain household bread his eye did not dwell; but he surveyed with favour some currant tea-cakes, and condescended to make choice of one. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Do you remember the matted-up currant bushes, Margaret, at the corner of the west-wall in the garden at home? 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Fired with a housewifely wish to see her storeroom stocked with homemade preserves, she undertook to put up her own currant jelly. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Look at his eye--for all the world like a villainous sort of black currant. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Large currant buns and hot, well-sweetened tea were then administered in the proper spirit of liberality. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- This is true not only of grape juice but also of the juice of all other sweet fruits; apple juice ferments to cider, currant juice to currant wine, etc. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The common gooseberry, for instance, cannot be grafted on the currant, whereas the currant will take, though with difficulty, on the gooseberry. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- At the Rectory, when the bottle of port wine was opened after dinner, the young ladies had each a glass from a bottle of currant wine. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Wines, currants, and wrought silks, were the only goods which did not fall within this rule, having other and more advantageous allowances. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Home came four dozen delightful little pots, half a barrel of sugar, and a small boy to pick the currants for her. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
編輯:维尔玛