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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

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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