asparagus: [15] Asparagus comes ultimately from Greek aspáragos (a word related to the Greek verb spargan ‘swell’, to the Latin verb spargere ‘scatter’ – ultimate source of English sparse, disperse, and aspersions – and also to English spark), and has over the past 150 years or so returned to the full Latin form, asparagus, in which it was originally borrowed by English.
In the intervening centuries, however, it went through several metamorphoses: in the 16th century, the truncated medieval Latin variant sparagus was current (it also occurs in one isolated example from a book of Anglo-Saxon remedies of around 1000 AD); from then until the 18th century an anglicized version, sperage, was used; and in the 17th century folk etymology (the process by which an unfamiliar word is assimilated to one more familiar) turned asparagus into sparrowgrass.
This gradually died out during the 19th century, but the abbreviation grass remains current in the jargon of the grocery trade. => aspersion, spark
asparagus (n.)
late 14c., aspergy; late Old English sparage, from Latin asparagus (in Medieval Latin often sparagus), from Greek asparagos, which is of uncertain origin; probably from PIE root *sp(h)er(e)g- "to spring up" (though perhaps not originally a Greek word).
In Middle English, asperages sometimes was regarded as a plural, with false singular aspergy. By 16c. the word had been anglicized as far as sperach, sperage. It was respelled by c. 1600 to conform with classical Latin, but in 17c. the folk-etymologized variant sparrowgrass took hold, persisting into 19c., during which time asparagus had "an air of stiffness and pedantry" [John Walker, "Critical Pronouncing Dictionary," 1791]. Known in Old English as eorðnafela.
asparagus 英文释义
1. plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable
2. edible young shoots of the asparagus plant
asparagus 双语例句
1. Trim any tough or woody stalks from the asparagus.
剪掉芦笋上粗硬或老掉的梗子。
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2. Anton the chef concocts a sensual coupling of lobster and asparagus.
厨师安东用龙虾和芦笋搭配，制作出了一道口感很好的菜肴。
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3. Layer the potatoes, asparagus and salmon in the tin.
把土豆、芦笋和大麻哈鱼分层装入罐头内。
来自柯林斯例句
4. Now British asparagus is in season.
现在英国芦笋正当令。
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5. Asparagus is reputed to be an aphrodisiac.
据说芦笋可以催情。
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asparagus 实用场景例句
It is used in breaking the fruit and vegetable of apples, pears, tomatoes, jujubes, asparagus.
适用于苹果 、 梨 、 西红柿 、 枣 、 芦笋等果梳破碎.
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The photosynthetic characteristics of asparagus bean have been studied.
以鄂豇豆二号品种为材料,研究了豇豆的光合特性.
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Edible shoots mainly include bamboo shoot, asparagus, lettuce, rattan shoot and so on.
食用笋主要有竹笋 、 芦笋 、 莴笋 、 棕榈藤笋等,是一类营养价值非常高的天然保健食品.
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Vegetables easily effected affected by aphering ethylene include a asparagus, broccoli, cabbage and cureconberscucumbers.
像芦笋, 椰菜, 卷心菜,黄瓜等蔬菜很容易被乙烯影响.
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Dark cherry red colour. Summery tropical fruit with a touch of asparagus finishing fresh and zingy.
深紫红色;香浓果香,带有少许木桶香味;入口柔滑,浓度适中.
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In some degree, all the hatches are suitable for loading asparagus.
从某种程度上看, 所有舱都适合装芦笋.
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It is used in breaking the fruit and vegetable of apples, pears, tomatoes , gugubes, asparagus.
适用于苹果 、 梨 、 西红柿 、 芦笋等果蔬破碎.
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They both had mutton with jelly, roast potatoes and asparagus.
他们就着果子冻 、 烤土豆和竹笋吃着羊肉.
辞典例句
Can you detect the distinctive odour that most people's urine acquires after eating asparagus?
您能发现大多数人吃芦笋后尿液的独特气味 吗 ?
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Extraction and properties of green pigment from leaves of Asparagus lettuce were reported.
研究了莴笋叶绿色素的提取及其理化性质.
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'see if you can get some nice asparagus,'she added. " I'll cook it for dinner. "
“ 你看看能不能买些好芦笋, " 她补充说, " 我要用来做晚饭.
英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
Our freezer filled up with cherries, raspberries, strawberries, asparagus, peas, beans and corn.
我们的冰箱里塞满了樱桃 、 蓝莓 、 草莓 、 芦笋 、 豌豆 、 青豆和玉米.
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The tender young shoots of a Eurasian plant ( Asparagus officinalis ), eaten as a vegetable.
