gooseberry
gooseberry 英 [ˈgʊzbəri] 美 [ˈgusberi]
n. 醋栗，鹅莓；醋栗酒；醋栗树
名词复数:gooseberries
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- n. 醋栗，鹅莓；醋栗酒；醋栗树
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1. My gooseberries have grown well apart from one bush, which had an attack of gooseberry sawfly.
我的鹅莓长势喜人，除了一株由于锯蝇的攻击而出现问题。
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2. Remember, when those questions about where babies come from, try to avoid mentioning gooseberry bushes, and keep calm and carry on!
记住，当这些关于孩子们是从哪儿来的问题来了的时候，尽量避免提及醋栗树丛的事，保持冷静，加油。
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3. Looking back, the early examples were often over the top: full-on blasts of gooseberry, herbs and tomato leaf, such that a second glass could sometimes be a challenge.
回首过去，早期的酒类品种往往有点过分：酒当中高含量的醋栗、香草和番茄叶，想喝第二杯有时候都变成了一种挑战。
- gooseberry (n.) type of thorny shrub with hairy fruit, cultivated in northern Europe, 1530s, with berry, but the first part is of uncertain origin; no part of the plant seems to suggest a goose. Watkins points to Old French grosele "gooseberry," which is from Germanic. Or perhaps from German Krausebeere or Kräuselbeere, related to Middle Dutch croesel "gooseberry," and to German kraus "crispy, curly" [Klein, etc.]. By either path it could be related to the Germanic group of words in kr-/cr- and meaning "to bend, curl; bent, crooked; rounded mass." Under this theory, gooseberry would be folk etymology. But OED editors find no reason to prefer this to a literal reading, because "the grounds on which plants and fruits have received names associating them with animals are so commonly inexplicable, that the want of appropriateness in the meaning affords no sufficient ground for assuming that the word is an etymological corruption."
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