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单词 sour grapes
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grape1 /grāp/

noun
  1. The small, green- or dark purple-skinned fruit of the grapevine, growing in bunches, used to make wine, dried to make raisins, or eaten raw
  2. A mangy tumour on the legs of horses, or the form of tuberculosis it is indicative of (veterinary medicine)
  3. Grapeshot
ORIGIN: OFr grape, grappe a cluster of grapes, from grape a hook; orig Gmc

grapeˈless adjective

(of wine) without the flavour of the grape

grāˈpery noun

A building or place where grapes are grown

grāˈpey or grāˈpy adjective

Made of or like grapes

grapeˈfruit noun

  1. A large, round, yellow-skinned citrus fruit, so called because it grows in large bunches like grapes
  2. The evergreen tree bearing it

grape hyacinth noun

Any of several plants of the genus Muscari closely related to the hyacinths, with clusters of small grapelike flowers

grape ivy noun

An evergreen climbing vine (Rhoicissus rhomboidea), popular as a houseplant for its glossy foliage

grapeˈlouse noun

An insect (Viteus vitifolii) which is a serious pest of vines

grapeˈseed noun

The seed of the vine

grapeˈseed-oil noun

An oil pressed from grapeseed

grapeˈshot noun

Clustered iron shot that scatters when fired

grapeˈstone noun

The pip of the grape

grape sugar noun

Glucose or dextrose

grapeˈtree noun

A tropical American tree (Coccoloba uvifera) of the family Polygonaceae, or its edible fruit

grapeˈvine noun

  1. Vitis vinifera or other species of Vitis
  2. The bush telegraph, rumour (from its far-stretching branches) (informal)

sea grape see under sea

sour grapes

Saying or pretending that something is not worth having because one cannot have it oneself (from Aesop's fable of the fox and the grapes)

the grape (usu facetious)

Wine

sour /sowr/

adjective
  1. Having an acid taste or smell
  2. Turned, rancid or fermented
  3. Rank
  4. (of animals) heavy, strong
  5. Cold and wet
  6. Embittered, crabbed, or peevish
  7. Disagreeable
  8. Inharmonious (lit and figurative)
  9. Bad, unsuccessful
  10. Containing sulphur compounds
  11. (of soil) lacking in lime and thus unfruitful for crops
transitive verb
  1. To make sour
  2. To treat with dilute acid
intransitive verb

To become sour

noun
  1. An acid drink, such as a gin or whisky cocktail that contains lemon or lime juice
  2. An acid solution used in bleaching, curing skins, etc
ORIGIN: OE sūr; Ger sauer, ON sūrr

sourˈing noun

  1. The process of turning or becoming sour
  2. Vinegar
  3. The crab-apple
  4. Treatment with dilute acid in bleaching

sourˈish adjective

sourˈishly adverb

sourˈly adverb

sourˈness noun

sourˈ-cold adjective (Shakespeare).

sour cream noun

Cream soured by a ferment

sourˈ-crout see sauerkraut

sourˈdough noun

  1. Leaven
  2. A piece of dough reserved to leaven a new batch
  3. Bread made in this way
  4. In Canada and Alaska, an old-timer

sourˈ-eyed adjective

Morose-looking

sour gas noun (mining)

Natural gas containing impurities, mainly hydrogen sulphide

sourˈ-gourd noun

  1. The cream of tartar tree
  2. A tropical grass related to millet
  3. Sorrel

sour grapes

See under grape1

sour mash noun (US)

  1. New mash mixed with old to increase acidity and promote fermentation
  2. Whiskey made in this way

sourˈpuss noun (informal)

A sour-tempered person

sourˈwood noun

A deciduous tree of eastern N America (Oxydendrum arboreum) with acid-tasting leaves, the sorrel tree
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