| 正面 | 5435.vanilla 英 [və'nɪlə]美 [və'nɪlə] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| 背面 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 释义: 1. literally "little pod, little vagina," diminutive of Spanish vaina "sheath," from Latin vagina "sheath" (see vagina). So called from the shape of the pods.2. Meaning "conventional, of ordinary sexual preferences" is from notion of whiteness and the common choice of vanilla ice cream.3. The pod was so named because of its sheath-like shape.4. Latin vagina 'sheath', which came to be jokingly applied to the 'female reproductive passage' – hence English vagina.5. 在香港又被音译为“云呢拿”。n. 香子兰,香草adj. 香草味的 例句: 1. The city is pretty much plain vanilla.这座城市相当一般化。 vanilla 香草来自拉丁语vagina,剑鞘,字母g脱落,-illa,小词后缀。因这种植物豆荚形如剑鞘而得名。 vanillavanilla: [17] A vanilla pod is etymologically a ‘little vagina’. The word was borrowed from Spanish vainilla, a diminutive form of vaina ‘sheath’ (the pod was so named because of its sheath-like shape). Vaina was descended from Latin vāgīna ‘sheath’, which came to be jokingly applied to the ‘female reproductive passage’ – hence English vagina [17].=> vaginavanilla (n.)1660s, "pod of the vanilla plant," from Spanish vainilla "vanilla plant," literally "little pod," diminutive of vaina "sheath," from Latin vagina "sheath of an ear of grain, hull of a plant" (see vagina). So called from the shape of the pods. European discovery 1521 by Hernando Cortes' soldiers on reconnaissance in southeastern Mexico. Meaning "flavoring extracted from the vanilla bean" is attested by 1728. Meaning "conventional, of ordinary sexual preferences" is 1970s, from notion of whiteness and the common choice of vanilla ice cream." |
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