potato是什么意思_potato怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

potato: potato: [16] Potato was originally the English name for the ‘sweet potato’ (when Falstaff in Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor 1598 cried ‘Let the sky rain potatoes!’ it was to the sweet potato, and its supposed aphrodisiac properties, that he was referring). It did not begin to be used for the vegetable we now know as the potato until the very end of the 16th century. The word comes via Spanish patata from batata, the name for the ‘sweet potato’ in the Taino language of Haiti and other Caribbean islands.
potato (n.): 1560s, from Spanish patata, from a Carib language of Haiti batata "sweet potato." Sweet potatoes were first to be introduced to Europe; in cultivation in Spain by mid-16c.; in Virginia by 1648. Early 16c. Portuguese traders carried the crop to all their shipping ports and the sweet potato was quickly adopted from Africa to India and Java.

The name later (1590s) was extended to the common white potato, from Peru, which was at first (mistakenly) called Virginia potato, or, because at first it was of minor importance compared to the sweet potato, bastard potato. Spanish invaders in Peru began to use white potatoes as cheap food for sailors 1530s. The first potato from South America reached Pope Paul III in 1540; grown in France at first as an ornamental plant. According to popular tradition, introduced to Ireland 1565 by John Hawkins. Brought to England from Colombia by Sir Thomas Herriot, 1586.

German kartoffel (17c.) is a dissimilation from tartoffel, ultimately from Italian tartufolo (Vulgar Latin *territuberem), originally "truffle." Frederick II forced its cultivation on Prussian peasants in 1743. The French is pomme de terre, literally "earth-apple;" a Swedish dialectal word for "potato" is jordpäron, literally "earth-pear."

Colloquial pronunciation tater is attested in print from 1759. Potato chip (n.) attested from 1879. To drop (something) like a hot potato is from 1824. Children"s counting-out rhyme that begins one potato, two potato first recorded 1885 in Canada. Slang potato trap "mouth" attested from 1785.

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权威造句

1. How do you spell "potato"?: potato这个词怎么拼写？

2. The potato cakes should be crisp outside and meltingly soft inside.: 土豆饼应该外面酥脆,里面嫩软.

3. Now experts are extolling the virtues of the humble potato.: 现在专家们都在赞美其貌不扬的马铃薯的种种好处。

4. Left-handers have trouble using can-openers, scissors, and potato peelers.: 左撇子在使用开罐刀、剪刀和土豆削皮器时会有困难。

5. Put both vegetables into a bowl and crush with a potato masher.: 把这两样蔬菜都放进一个碗里，然后用捣土豆器把它们捣碎。

近反义词

spud 马铃薯

tater [口]=potato

vegetable 蔬菜

tuber 块茎

root vegetable 根菜

new potato 嫩马铃薯

seed potato 种用马铃薯

sweet potato 甘薯

white potato 马铃薯

murphy 马铃薯

Irish potato 白马铃薯

Solanum tuberosum [医] 马铃薯

相似短语

quite the potato 恰如其分的例子,合适的事物

meat and potato 土豆烧肉,主食;主要的,重要的,关键部分

small potato 喻指无足轻重的小人物

Duchesse Potato 公爵夫人土豆

indian potato phr. 落花生；高葵花

potato, spud 马铃薯

potato bean 利马豆，菜豆

potato chopper 马铃薯切碎机

potato dehydrator 马铃薯干燥机

potato digger 马铃薯收获机

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