berry

英 ['berɪ] 美['bɛri]

CET4TEM4CET6中低频词常用词汇

复数: berries;

1. BlackBerry

berry 莓子

可能来自bur, 毛，刺。指生长莓子的灌木，后指莓子。

berry: berry: [OE] Berry is a strictly Germanic word, not found in other branches of Indo-European (German has beere, Dutch bes, and Danish bær). Its earliest application seems to have been specifically to grapes; the only record of it in Old Saxon and Gothic is in the compound ‘wineberry’, and around 1000 Aelfric translated Deuteronomy 23:24 into Old English as ‘If you go into your friend’s vineyard, eat the berries’.

But by the Middle Ages the term had broadened out to encompass the sorts of fruit we would recognize today as berries. The word goes back ultimately to a prehistoric Germanic *basj-, which it has been speculated may be related to Old English basu ‘red’.
berry (n.): Old English berie, from Proto-Germanic *basjom (cognates: Old Norse ber, Middle Dutch bere, German Beere "berry;" Old Saxon winber, Gothic weinabasi "grape"), which is of unknown origin. This and apple are the only native fruit names.

2. Berry Sugar were down eight at one seventy one, on doubts about the commodity price.: 由于市场对糖价看跌,BERRY糖业公司股价下跌了8便士,跌至1.71英镑.

3. Mrs Berry asked her students to make a card for their father.: Berry小姐叫她的学生为他们的爸爸做一张卡片.

4. Berry is reanalyzing another earlier Taxol study, and Moore urged other scientists to do the same.: Berry重新分析了另一项早先的泰素研究.与此同时, Moore鼓励其他科学家也这么做.

5. Mr. Berry said the timing was a coincidence and that his decision was unrelated to Mr. Roman's departure.: 贝里先生说这是时间上的巧合，他的决定与罗曼先生的离开没有关系。