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单词 wine
释义

wine1

/wʌɪn /
noun [mass noun]
1An alcoholic drink made from fermented grape juice: he opened a bottle of red wine [count noun]: the regional foods and wines of France...
  • The fine-wine merchant is the place to go if you want to buy and cellar great vintage wines.
  • He poured the sparkling red wine into a glass at a small table with two chairs around it.
  • For other cheesy dishes, a light, fruity red wine is sometimes better.

Synonyms

French vin de table, vin ordinaire, vin du pays
informal plonk, vino, the grape
1.1 [with modifier] An alcoholic drink made from the fermented juice of specified other fruits or plants: a glass of elderflower wine...
  • I have invited a couple of people around to play Singstar and drink fruit wine so that should be good.
  • I also got mildly tipsy on fruit wine which was necessary due to bloody coldness.
  • Inside was her fantastic Root from the Twisted Wood, a jug of dandelion wine and a large book of poems.
1.2 short for wine red. [in combination]: a wine-coloured suit
verb [with object] (wine and dine someone)
1Entertain someone by offering them drinks and a meal: members of Congress have been lavishly wined and dined by lobbyists for years...
  • Gorgeous actress Kate Beckinsale grabbed the hearts of York males as an amazing 64 per cent said she would be their favourite choice to wine and dine on a romantic evening out.
  • They are not just the major banks, which the Ministers might wine and dine; they are a whole lot of people who run small, localised finance companies that provide credit to New Zealanders.
  • The catering division is used regularly by the Taoiseach to wine and dine visiting dignitaries at Government Buildings and Farmleigh House.
1.1 [no object] Enjoy oneself by eating and drinking lavishly: we wined and dined with Bernard’s friends...
  • Afterwards the members continued with their AGM in high spirit and Bertie proceeded to wine and dine at the Radisson SAS Hotel with the Sligo Chamber of Commerce and the Mayor of Sligo, Mr. Declan Bree.
  • Surprisingly, the doors are normally closed at weekends as the bulk of trade is carried out during the week days when New Yorkers and ex pats take a break from the hustle and bustle to wine and dine in the popular premises on East 41st Street.
  • They're here to strengthen ties with the U.S., talk a little politics, wine and dine with dignitaries, and test out Camilla's popularity in a nation some call Diana country.

Phrases

good wine needs no bush

wine, women, and song

Derivatives

winey

/ˈwʌɪni/ (also winy) adjective (winier, winiest) ...
  • Otherwise, there were yielding green figs in winey, citrusy syrup, with a faultless vanilla ice-cream liquefying sensuously into it.
  • Even the tomato sauce accompanying his delightful goat cheese rosti is special, tasting of ripe, red fresh tomatoes against a mellow winey backdrop.
  • All this anointed with a clear, bright, winey gravy, innocent of thickening gloop and judiciously scented with rosemary.

Origin

Old English wīn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wijn, German Wein, based on Latin vinum.

  • At heart wine is the same word as vine (Middle English). Both can be traced back to Latin vinum, ‘wine’, which also gave us vinegar (Middle English) formed from Latin vinus acer ‘sour wine’; vintage (Late Middle English) via French vendage, from Latin vindemia ‘wine removal’; and vinyl—in technical use vinyl is a plastic created from a derivative of ethylene, which is a naturally occurring gas given off by ripening fruit. Wine, women, and song (late 19th century) was suggested by ‘Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away’ from the biblical book of Ecclesiasticus, which is probably behind ‘Who loves not wine, woman, and song, / He is a fool his whole life long’, a translation of an anonymous German fragment of poetry. The original German Wein, Weib, and Gesang was first popularized as the title of an 1869 Strauss waltz, and the translation became a generic term for this kind of music. See also truth

Rhymes

wine2

/wʌɪn /
verb [no object] West Indian
Dance with rhythmic gyratory movements of the pelvic region: the crowd jumped and wined and churned the field into mud...
  • Shoes in one hand, eyes closed, a smile of joy on her upturned face, she was wining and jumping up in the mud.
  • Brooklyn is taken over by a sea of masqueraders in spectacular costumes, wining to pulsating soca, behind eye-catching floats.
  • See her in the picture above, with Machel wining on her bumper.

Origin

From wind2, influenced by twine.

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