whisky

英 ['w?sk?] 美['w?ski]

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復(fù)數(shù):?whiskies;

1. German Wasser "water" => Old Irish uisce "water" => whisky / whiskey.
2. 來源于對酒的美稱“生命之水”。
3. 音譯“威士忌”。

whisky: whisky: [18] Whisky denotes etymologically ‘water of life’. The word is short for an earlier whiskybae, which was an alteration of usquebaugh; and this in turn was an anglicization of Gaelic uisge beatha ‘water of life’ (Gaelic uisge ‘water’ comes from the same Indo-European source as English water, and beatha ‘life’ is related to Latin vīta ‘life’ and English vital). The distinction in spelling between Scotch whisky and American and Irish whiskey goes back no further than the 19th century. French eau de vie ‘brandy’, literally ‘water of life’, is semantically identical.
=> vital, water
whisky (n.): see whiskey.

1. It was his invariable custom to have one whisky before his supper.: 晚飯前來杯威士忌，這是他一直以來的習(xí)慣。

2. Francis poured a generous measure of the whisky into a fresh glass.: 弗朗西斯往一個干凈的玻璃杯里倒了很多威士忌。

3. When his whisky came he drank half of it in one gulp.: 威士忌端上來后，他一口氣就喝掉了一半。

4. Her husband's memories are of living off roast chicken and drinking whisky.: 她丈夫只記得過去吃烤雞、喝威士忌的日子。

5. The island's present economy owes a good deal to whisky distilling.: 該島當(dāng)前的經(jīng)濟發(fā)展主要歸功于蒸餾法釀造威士忌酒行業(yè)。