melon

英 ['melən]美 ['mɛlən]
  • n. 瓜；甜瓜；大肚子；圆鼓鼓像瓜似的东西
  • n. (Melon)人名；(意、西、葡)梅隆
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中文词源

melon 甜瓜，香瓜

来自拉丁语melonem,来自希腊语melopepon,葫芦果，葫芦状的苹果，来自melon,苹果，词源同malic,pepon,一种葫芦，可能来自pepon,熟的，来自PIE*pekw,煮，词源同cook,dyspeptic.后用以指甜瓜，香瓜，哈蜜瓜一类的瓜果。需注意的是，melon在希腊语除了指苹果，也指其它各种各样的水果，尤其是外来品种，如peach,字面意思为波斯苹果。

英文词源

melon
melon: [14] Greek mēlon actually meant ‘apple’. But combination with pépōn ‘ripe’ (a relative of English peptic [17]) produced mēlopépōn, which was used for ‘melon’. This passed into Latin as mēlopepō, but the -pepō part was subsequently dropped, giving mēlō – source, via Old French, of English melon.
=> marmalade
melon (n.)
late 14c., from Old French melon (13c.), from Medieval Latin melonem (nominative melo), from Latin melopeponem, a kind of pumpkin, from Greek melopepon "gourd-apple" (name for several kinds of gourds bearing sweet fruit), from melon "apple" (see malic) + pepon, a kind of gourd, probably noun use of pepon "ripe" (see pumpkin).

In Greek, melon was used in a generic way for all foreign fruits (compare similar use of apple). The Greek plural of "melon" was used from ancient times for "a girl's breasts."

双语例句

1. Next, she disembowelled a melon with a quiet fury.
接着，她闷着头愤愤地掏空瓜瓤。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Cut the melon into chunks.
把瓜切块。
来自柯林斯例句
3. a slice of melon
一片瓜
来自《权威词典》
4. This melon weighs more than ten jin, I should think.
这个瓜怕有十几斤吧.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5. Would you like some melon?
你要吃点瓜 吗 ?
来自《简明英汉词典》