lemon
lemon 英 [ˈlemən] 美 [ˈlɛmən]
n. 柠檬
名词复数:lemons
- A lemon is a sour yellow fruit. Squeeze one to make lemonade or add flavor to hot tea. Lemon is also what people call something that doesn’t work well, like a bum car.
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- n. 柠檬
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1. lemon tea
柠檬茶
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2. a lemon tree
柠檬树
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3. Add in the lemon after mixing the flour and sugar.
在面粉和糖混合之后倒入柠檬汁。
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4. Drink water or lemon water instead of juices and sodas.
用纯水或柠檬水来代替果汁和苏打水。
- lemon (n.1) "ovate, pale yellow citrus fruit," c. 1400, lymon, from Old French limon "citrus fruit" (12c.), which comes via Provençal or Italian from Arabic laimun, Persian limun. Apparently brought from India to the Levant by the Arabs 9c. or 10c.; the word is perhaps ultimately from an Austronesian word of the Malay archipelago, such as such as Balinese limo "lemon," Malay limaw "citrus fruit, lime" (compare lime (n.2)).
- lemon (n.2) "worthless thing, disappointment, booby prize," 1909, American English slang; from lemon (n.1), perhaps via a criminal slang sense of "a person who is a loser, a simpleton," perhaps an image of someone a sharper can "suck the juice out of." A pool hall hustle was called a lemon game (1908); while to hand someone a lemon was British slang (1906) for "to pass off a sub-standard article as a good one." Or it simply may be a metaphor for something which leaves a bad taste in one's mouth. Specific sense of "second-hand car in poor condition" is by 1931.
- lemon (v.) 1767 (implied in lemoned), from lemon (n.1).
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