英语词汇“methuselah”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

methuselah1

/mɪˈθ(j)uːz(ə)lə

noun

A wine bottle of eight times the standard size.But did you know that a methuselah is eight bottles worth or six litres of wine - referred to in Bordeaux as an imperiale?...

Last month, while hanging out in St Tropez, he reputedly spent $80,000 on four methuselahs of Cristal and that was after the Sultan of Brunei had given him a welcome to London present of 10.

Origin

1930s: from Methuselah.

Rhymes

Methuselah2

/mɪˈθ(j)uːz(ə)lə

1(In the Bible) a patriarch, the grandfather of Noah, who is said to have lived for 969 years (Gen. 5:27).

1.1Used to refer to a very old person: I’m feeling older than Methuselah...

I have shaved a Methuselah's beard of red fuzz over that little bathroom sink.

单词	methuselah
释义	methuselah1 /mɪˈθ(j)uːz(ə)lə / noun A wine bottle of eight times the standard size.But did you know that a methuselah is eight bottles worth or six litres of wine - referred to in Bordeaux as an imperiale?... Last month, while hanging out in St Tropez, he reputedly spent $80,000 on four methuselahs of Cristal and that was after the Sultan of Brunei had given him a welcome to London present of 10. Origin 1930s: from Methuselah. Rhymes bamboozler Methuselah2 /mɪˈθ(j)uːz(ə)lə / 1(In the Bible) a patriarch, the grandfather of Noah, who is said to have lived for 969 years (Gen. 5:27). 1.1Used to refer to a very old person: I’m feeling older than Methuselah... I have shaved a Methuselah's beard of red fuzz over that little bathroom sink.
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