| 单词 | beer |
| 释义 | beer (once / 273 pages) n Beer is an alcoholic drink usually made from barley and hops. A beer is a can or pint of the stuff. Too much beer can make people, often college students, wear lampshades as hats or dance like chickens. Cheers! Beer is a foamy, malt-flavored beverage with a relatively low alcohol content. Beer is actually the most commonly consumed alcoholic drink around the world, and it's believed to be the oldest too. Brewers make beer by fermenting a grain — usually barley or wheat — and adding hops or other flavoring agents. The word comes from the Old English beor, and though experts disagree about its roots, one guess names the Vulgar Latin biber, "beverage," as a possible origin. WORD FAMILYbeer: beers, beery+/beery: beerily USAGE EXAMPLES“It is because they didn’t patronizingly speak in the advertising campaign in a very macho, aggressive language like most beer advertising used in the past.” Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) The canoe was heaped with valuable trade goods: copper, flint, weapons, textiles, and beer. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) “All my friends were drinking beer and not gaining massive amounts of weight,” Mr. Cahill said. New York Times(May 02, 2016) n a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops Hypo|Hyper draft beer, draught beer beer drawn from a keg sudsa dysphemism for beer (especially for lager that effervesces) lager, lager beera general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September alea general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume Munchener, Munich beera dark lager produced in Munich since the 10th century; has a distinctive taste of malt bock, bock beera very strong lager traditionally brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption in the spring light beerlager with reduced alcohol content Octoberfest, Oktoberfesta strong lager made originally in Germany for the Oktoberfest celebration; sweet and copper-colored Pilsener, Pilsnera pale lager with strong flavor of hops; first brewed in the Bohemian town of Pilsen Weissbier, wheat beer, white beera general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent malt, malt liquora lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer bitterEnglish term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft) Burtona strong dark English ale pale alean amber colored ale brewed with pale malts; similar to bitter but drier and lighter porter, porter's beera very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley stouta strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops brew, brewage drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling |
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