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pomegranate
🇺🇸 /pˌɑmʌɡɹˈænʌt/
🇬🇧 /ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/
pomegranate 主要指石榴这种果实,也可指结石榴的树,以及像石榴果皮或果肉一样的深红色;作形容词时表示石榴红。另有一个澳大利亚英语中的过时贬义用法,指英国人。
💡 记忆钩子
想象一枚剖开的石榴:里面密密麻麻的红色果粒先让 pomegranate 指“石榴果实”,长出这些果实的灌木或小树也可称为 pomegranate;果皮和果肉的深红色又引申出“石榴红”。澳大利亚英语中另有一个已经过时且带贬义的“英国人”用法,和这条颜色—果实—树的主线分开记。
📝 学习建议
- 先记最常见的“石榴果实”,再把“石榴树”和“石榴红”连到同一幅图像上;不要把它只理解成一种颜色。
- 澳大利亚英语中的“英国人”义带有贬义且已过时,阅读旧材料时认出即可,不应主动使用。
📖 中文释义
adj
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core 石榴红的📖 指像石榴果皮或果肉那样的深红色,也可以带一点橙红色调;它就是从石榴这个名词引出的颜色义。💡 常见结构是“pomegranate + 服饰或物品名词”,例如表示一条石榴红的围巾。它多用于描述颜色和设计,色调比普通的红色更具体、更深;不要把它误解为“由石榴制成的”。The designer paired a pomegranate scarf with a cream coat.设计师把一条石榴红围巾和一件奶油色外套搭配在一起。
more pomegranate
comparative
most pomegranate
superlative
noun
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core 石榴果实📖 一种外皮厚而硬、通常呈红色,里面有许多带可食红色果肉的籽的果实,味道甜中带酸。这是 pomegranate 最应优先掌握的名词义。💡 常见结构是“eat/cut/open a pomegranate”或“the seeds of a pomegranate”,说具体一个果实时通常用冠词。它指整个果实,不只是里面的籽或果肉;谈论多个时用复数“pomegranates”。I cut open a pomegranate and put the seeds in a bowl.我剖开一个石榴,把籽放进碗里。These pomegranates are sweet but still a little tart.这些石榴很甜,但仍然带一点酸味。
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common 石榴树📖 指结石榴果实的灌木或小树;可以把它理解为“长出石榴的植物”,和果实义来自同一幅图景。💡 表示树时常见“plant/grow a pomegranate”或“a pomegranate tree”;如果语境没有树木线索,单独的 pomegranate 更容易被理解为果实。谈论树的高度、枝条或种植地点时,补出“tree”通常更清楚。We planted a pomegranate beside the sunny wall.我们在向阳的墙边种了一棵石榴树。
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common 石榴红📖 指石榴果皮或果肉的深红色或橙红色;这是把石榴的醒目外观直接当作颜色名称。💡 表示颜色时常见于“choose/use pomegranate”或“a pomegranate color/shade”等结构,尤其用于服装和室内装饰。这个名词义比形容词用法更像一个被选择的颜色名称;若只是修饰某件物品,通常优先考虑形容词用法。She chose pomegranate for the accent wall in the living room.她为客厅的重点墙面选了石榴红。
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rare 英国人(过时的贬称)📖 在澳大利亚英语旧用法中,指英国血统的人,尤其是新近移居澳大利亚的人;这是与石榴主线无关的地域性贬义称呼。💡 只在标明澳大利亚英语、口语或历史语境的材料中识别这个意思。它带贬义且已经过时,不适合在现代交流中用来称呼英国人;不要把它当作普通中性的国籍称呼。Australia colloquial derogatory obsolete
pomegranates
plural
📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 2 组
large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind
同义词集:
pomegranate
shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit
同义词集:
pomegranate
pomegranate tree
punica granatum
🌳 词源
词源可追溯到中古英语、古法语及拉丁语等形式,名称大致与“多籽的果实”有关;形容词义由名词义发展而来。
The noun is derived from Middle English pome-garnet, pome-garnete, pome garnate, pome granat, pome-granate (“pomegranate fruit; pomegranate tree; pomegranate seeds (?)”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman pome gernate, pomme gernette, Middle French pomme granade, pomme granate, pomme grenade, and Old French pome grenade, pome grenate, pomme grenate [and other forms] (modern French grenade), probably from Italian pomogranato, pomo granato (though apparently first attested later), and then either:
* from Italian pomo (“fruit, pome; apple”) + Latin (mālum) grānātum, (mālo)grānātum (“pomegranate”); or
* directly from Medieval Latin pōmum garnātum, pōmum grānātum (“pomegranate”), from Latin pōmum (“fruit; fruit tree”) + grānātum (“pomegranate”). Pōmum is possibly ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”) (in the sense of being picked off a plant), from *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *h₁em- (“to distribute; to take”); while grānātum is derived from grānātus (“having many grains or seeds”), from grānum (“grain, seed, small kernel”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- (“to mature, grow old”) + *-nós (suffix forming verbal adjectives)) + -ātus (suffix forming adjectives indicating the possession of a quality or thing from nouns).
Displaced earlier Old English æppelcyrnel (literally: apple + kernel), itself a calque of the Latin term. The adjective is derived from the noun.
🔄 变式
more pomegranate
compar
most pomegranate
superl
pomegranates
plural
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