| 单词 | grape of wine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrape of wine a. Any one of the berries, growing in clusters on a vine, and from the juice of which wine is made. Also grape of wine. Chiefly in plural; in poetry often singular, as quasi-collective. the grapes are sour (now usually sour grapes (see sour adj. and n.1 Compounds 1c)): said proverbially with allusion to Æsop's fable of ‘The Fox and the Grapes’, when a person is heard to disparage something which it is suspected he would be glad to possess if he could. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > grape grapec1290 raisinc1300 grainc1315 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > grape wineberryc1000 grapec1290 pippina1382 vinea1425 uva1670 Riesling1788 hanepootc1798 Merlot1825 Gamay1833 Pedro Ximenez1833 wine-grape1838 Muscadelle1888 Chenin Noir1896 Tempranillo1896 Chenin Blanc1952 Cencibel1966 Lambrusco1977 the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > jealousy or envy [phrase] > expressions of envy sour grapes1760 lucky you (also him, her, etc.)1821 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 231/424 A luytel foul..brouȝte a gret bouȝ Fol of grapus swyþe rede. c1315 Shoreham 30 That schel be to thys sacrement Ryȝt of the grape of wyne. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xxxii. 32 The graap of hem graap of gal, and the cluster moost bittre. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. vii. 16 Whether men gaderen grapis of thornys, or fijgis of breeris? a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 4468 Vp-on þis tre, on ilk-a bohw, Me-thoght þar hing grapis [Vesp. winberis] enohw. a1400 Pistill of Susan 84 On grapes þe goldfinche þei gladen and glees. 1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy v. xiii, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 151 Thou shalt have Graps ryght as the Ruby red. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 22 Take persole..grene Grapus, and stope þy chekyns with wynne. 1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Pinnar i. 7 On vine growes the grape, and not the biter hop. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 259 The mantling Vine Layes forth her purple Grape . View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 146 Like a large Cluster of black Grapes they show. View more context for this quotation 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 247 Grapes taken in moderate Quantities help the Appetite. 1760 A. Murphy Way to keep Him i. 5 You'd be glad to have me!—But sour Grapes, my Dear. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha ii. 32 Grapes in purple clusters. 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer vi. 63 Another boy said ‘Sour grapes!’ 1923 A. Huxley Antic Hay xiii. 190 The concert had begun. ‘Never mind,’ said Gumbril. ‘We shall get in in time for the minuetto. It's then that the fun really begins.’ ‘Sour grapes,’ said Emily, putting her ear to the door. ‘It sounds to me simply too lovely.’ 1958 C. P. Snow Conscience of Rich xxxv. 261 I have never been able to understand the fascination which makes my brother Philip and others wish to spend their entire lives in this neighbourhood. I once said as much to Hannah, and she replied that it was sour grapes on my part. < as lemmas |
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