macaroni

释义

• n. 通心粉；通心面条；纨绔子弟

词源

macaroni

macaroni: [16] Macaroni was the earliest of the Italian pasta terms to be borrowed into English, and so it now differs more than any other from its original. When English acquired it, the Italian word was maccaroni (it came ultimately from late Greek makaría ‘food made from barley’), but now it has become maccheroni. The colloquial 18th-century application of macaroni to a ‘dandy’ is thought to have been an allusion to such people’s supposed liking for foreign food.And the derivative macaronic [17], used for a sort of verse in which Latin words are mixed in with vernacular ones for comic effect, was originally coined in Italian, comparing the verse’s crude mixture of languages with the homely hotchpotch of a macaroni dish. Macaroon [17] comes from macaron, the French descendant of Italian maccaroni.=> macaroon

例句

• 1. They tend to buy cheap processed foods like canned chicken and macaroni. 他们往往会买便宜的加工食品，像鸡肉罐头和通心粉之类的。
• 2. He sat down to a great dish of macaroni. 他坐下来吃了一大碗通心粉.
• 3. The last scene shows you what will happen at the end of the harvest: the famous Calabrian macaroni - eating competition! 最后这个场面向你表明,收获结束时将要进行的活动: 卡拉布亚人吃通心面的对抗赛!
• 4. Here you can see two workers who, between them, have just finished cutting three cart - loads of golden brown macaroni stalks. 在这里,你可以看到两个劳动者, 他们俩协力割下了三车金黄色的通心面秸.
• 5. There were few provisions available in exchange for food stamps: ersatz coffee, macaroni, small cubes of margarine. 可以用来换取粮票的食物只有这些：代用咖啡、通心粉和小块的人造黄油。