chestnut是什么意思_chestnut怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

chestnut: chestnut: [16] The Greek word for ‘chestnut’ was kastanéā, which appears to have meant originally ‘nut from Castanea’ (in Pontus, Asia Minor) or ‘nut from Castana’ (in Thessaly, Greece). It came into English via Latin castanea and Old French chastaine, which in the 14th century produced the Middle English form chasteine or chesteine. Over the next two hundred years this developed to chestern, and in due course had nut added to it to produce the modern English form. Castana, the Spanish descendant of Latin castanea, is the source of castanet.
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chestnut (n.): 1560s, from chesten nut (1510s), with superfluous nut (n.) + Middle English chasteine, from Old French chastain (12c., Modern French châtaigne), from Latin castanea "chestnut, chestnut tree," from Greek kastaneia, which the Greeks thought meant either "nut from Castanea" in Pontus, or "nut from Castana" in Thessaly, but probably both places are named for the trees, not the other way around, and the word is borrowed from a language of Asia Minor (compare Armenian kask "chestnut," kaskeni "chestnut tree"). In reference to the dark reddish-brown color, 1650s. Applied to the horse-chestnut by 1832.

Slang sense of "venerable joke or story" is from 1885, explained 1888 by Joseph Jefferson (see "Lippincott"s Monthly Magazine," January 1888) as probably abstracted from the 1816 melodrama "The Broken Sword" by William Dimond where an oft-repeated story involving a chestnut tree figures in an exchange between the characters "Captain Zavior" and "Pablo":
Zav. Let me see--ay! it is exactly six years since that peace being restored to Spain, and my ship paid off, my kind brother offered me a snug hammock in the dwelling of my forefathers. I mounted a mule at Barcelona and trotted away for my native mountains. At the dawn of the fourth day"s journey, I entered the wood of Collares, when, suddenly, from the thick boughs of a cork-tree--
Pab. [Jumping up.] A chesnut, Captain, a chesnut!
Zav. Bah, you booby! I say, a cork!
Pab. And I swear, a chesnut. Captain, this is the twenty-seventh time I have heard you relate this story, and you invariably said, a chesnut, till now.
Jefferson traced the connection through William Warren, "the veteran comedian of Boston" who often played Pablo in the melodrama.

词态变化

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权威造句

1. The fruit is rather like a sweet chestnut.: 这种果实颇似甜栗子。

2. The cock"s breast is tinged with chestnut.: 这只公鸡胸部羽毛呈浅栗色，带有白色细条纹。

3. an avenue of stately chestnut trees: 两边有雄伟高大栗树的林荫道

4. We have a chestnut tree in the bottom of our garden.: 我们的花园尽头有一棵栗树.

5. The chestnut is being retired.: 那匹栗色马将要退休了.

近反义词

horse chestnut 七叶树

water chestnut 【植】菱角

chestnut paste 栗蓉

Chinese chestnut 板栗

chestnut blight 栗树疫病,栗疫病...

chestnut extract 栗萃; 栗提取物; ...

sea chestnut 海栗

chestnut brown 栗褐色

commercial chestnut 商业陈词滥调...

chestnut earth 栗土

chestnut weevil 栗实象甲

chestnut shell 板栗壳

chestnut cream 粟子泥

French chestnut 欧洲栗

chestnut coal 栗级无烟煤,栗煤...

sweet chestnut 甜栗

chestnut soil 栗钙土

old chestnut 陈腐的笑话

pull someone"s chestnuts out of the fire 为某人火中取栗,替某...

相似短语

chestnut blight 栗树疫病，栗疫病

commercial chestnut 商业陈词滥调

light chestnut 浅粟钙土，淡栗色

spanish chestnut 欧洲栗

chestnut canker phr. 栗疫病

chestnut cream 栗子泥

chestnut colour 栗色

chestnut roan 红沙栗

chestnut soil 栗钙土

European chestnut 欧洲栗

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