| 釋義 |
grape /greip; grep/ n green or purple berry growing in clusters on vines, used for making wine: 葡匐： a bunch of ~s. 一串葡萄。 cthe illus at fruit. 參看 fruit 之插圖。 sour ~s; the s are sour, said when sb says that sth he wants but cannot get has little or no value. 酸葡萄(得不到某種東西便說(shuō)那種東西不好) o'— shot n [U] (hist) cluster of small iron balls fired together from a cannon to make a hail of shot. (史)同時(shí)發(fā)出的一群小彈丸; 葡萄彈。 → shrapnel. '~-sugar n dextrose or glucose, a kind of sugar found in ripe ~s and other kinds of fruit. 葡萄糖。 ,■ ~-vine n a kind of vine on which ~s grow. 葡萄藤。 b (fig) means by which news gets about, eg in an office, school or a group of friends: (喻)(辦公處，學(xué)?；蚺笥验g等)傳達(dá)消息的方法： I heard on the ~-vine that Jill is to be promoted. 我蕙別人說(shuō)吉爾要升級(jí)了％ |