sesame
sesame 英 [ˈsesəmi] 美 [ˈsɛsəmi]
n. 芝麻
名词复数:sesames
- If you pick a pod off a sesame plant and say “open sesame” like Ali Baba, you’ll get sesame seeds! People have been using sesame for its oil and seeds for over 3,000 years. That’s a lot of sesame bagels.
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- n. 芝麻
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1. A sesame stalk puts forth blossoms notch by notch, higher and higher.
芝麻开花节节高。
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2. We were testing their memory for details; for instance, asking if they had seen a picture of bread topped with sesame or poppy seeds.
我们当时是在测试他们对于细节的记忆力；然后问他们之前看到的那张面包图片是撒有芝麻的还是罂粟籽。
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3. Close up, they shine sort of like opal, and they taste like sweet sweet sesame.
凑近看，这种糖看上去像猫眼石那样油亮，吃起来是甜甜的芝麻味。
- sesame (n.) early 15c., probably from Middle French sisame and directly from Latin sesamum (nominative sesama), from Greek sesamon (Doric sasamon) "seed or fruit of the sesame plant," a very early borrowing via Phoenician from Late Babylonian *shawash-shammu (compare Assyrian shamash-shammu "sesame," literally "oil-seed"). First as a magic password in 1785 translation of Galland's "Mille et une nuits," where it opens the door of the thieves' den in "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." Phrase open sesame current since about 1826.
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