| 正面 | 8448.cucumber 英 ['kjuːkʌmbə]美 ['kjʊ,kʌmbɚ]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1、mis- "wrongly" + under + stand.2、字面含义：stand in the midst of.3、站在其中，沐浴在知识的海洋里，所谓内行、内行，身在其中，才解其味也；因此，只有身在其中，才能理解、明白。4、At here, the under is not the usual word meaning "beneath," but from Old English under, from PIE *enter- "between, among". 另见：undertake.n. 黄瓜；胡瓜 例句： 1. Cucumber is good for soothing tired eyes.黄瓜有助于舒缓眼部疲劳。 cucumber 黄瓜来自拉丁语cucumerem,黄瓜。 cucumbercucumber: [14] English acquired this word as cucumer, by direct borrowing from Latin cucumer, which may originally have been a word of some pre-Italic Mediterranean language. The form spelled with a b did not appear until the 15th century. It seems to have been a blend of Middle English cucumer and Old French coucombre, which itself ultimately derived from Latin cucumer. Spellings based on the Old French form led to a pronunciation of the first syllable as ‘cow’, which persisted until the early 19th century.cucumber (n.)late 14c., from Old French cocombre (13c., Modern French concombre), from Latin cucumerem (nominative cucumis), perhaps from a pre-Italic Mediterranean language. The Latin word also is the source of Italian cocomero, Spanish cohombro, Portuguese cogombro. Replaced Old English eorþæppla (plural), literally "earth-apples." Cowcumber was common form 17c.-18c., and that pronunciation lingered into 19c. Planted as a garden vegetable by 1609 by Jamestown colonists. Phrase cool as a cucumber (c. 1732) embodies ancient folk knowledge confirmed by science in 1970: inside of a field cucumber on a warm day is 20 degrees cooler than the air temperature." |