| 单词 | apple |
| 释义 | apple (once / 147 pages) n An apple is a round fruit with red or green skin and a whitish inside. One variety of apple might be sweet, another sour. The apple isn't just a fruit. It's a symbol — from the apples eaten by Adam and Eve in the Biblical creation story, which symbolize the loss of innocent to the expression "American as apple pie" to mean something that is wholesome. The "apple of your eye" is the person who delights you — maybe you are the apple of your grandfather's eye. He might tell you, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," meaning the fruit is good for your health. WORD FAMILYapple: apples USAGE EXAMPLESApple, Facebook, Google and other tech giants try to keep users in their own “walled gardens”. Economist(Nov 03, 2016) And like all Apple employees, he was discouraged from talking about his job with co-workers. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Apple did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) 1n native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits Syn|Hyper Malus pumila, orchard apple tree apple tree any tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruits 2n fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh Hypo|Hyper crab apple, crabapple small sour apple; suitable for preserving dessert apple, eating applean apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking cooking applean apple used primarily in cooking for pies and applesauce etc Baldwinan American eating apple with red or yellow and red skin Cortlandlarge apple with a red skin Deliciousvariety of sweet eating apples Empirean eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh; used as both an eating and a cooking apple Grimes' goldenyellow apple that ripens in late autumn; eaten raw Jonathanred late-ripening apple; primarily eaten raw McIntoshearly-ripening apple popular in the northeastern United States; primarily eaten raw but suitable for applesauce Northern Spylarge late-ripening apple with skin striped with yellow and red Pearmainany of several varieties of apples with red skins Pippinany of numerous superior eating apples with yellow or greenish yellow skin flushed with red Primaused primarily as eating apples Staymanapple grown chiefly in the Shenandoah Valley Winesapcrisp apple with dark red skin Stayman Winesapcrisp tart apple; good for eating raw and suitable for cooking Bramley's Seedlingvery large cooking apple Granny Smithapple with a green skin and hard tart flesh Lane's Prince Albertapple used primarily in cooking Newtown Wonderapple used primarily in cooking Rome Beautylarge red apple used primarily for baking edible fruit edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh false fruit, pomea fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part |
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