curry

英 ['kʌrɪ] 美 ['kɝi]

解释

※ 提供单词"curry"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

curry 咖喱，梳理马毛

1. 咖喱，来自南印度语，也叫做masala. 如masala chicken, masala mutton.

2. 梳理马毛，来自古法语correier, 来自reier, 准备，整理，词源同ready. 常见于短语curry favor, 给马刷毛，比喻义拍马屁，favor，来自常见马名Fauve拼写俗化，词源同fallow, pale, 即灰白色马或栗色马。

curry: curry: Of the two English words curry, the older, ‘groom a horse’ [13], is now almost forgotten except in the compound currycomb and the phrase curry favour. It comes, via Old French correier, from Vulgar Latin *conrēdāre ‘arrange, prepare, get ready’, which seems to have been an adaptation and partial translation of a prehistoric Germanic verb *garǣthjan, a derivative of the base which produced English ready.

The expression curry favour is a partial translation of Old French estriller favel or torcher favel, literally ‘groom a chestnut horse’, which, for reasons that are not known, was used as a metaphor for hypocritical behaviour; the word favel, unfamiliar to English speakers, was replaced with the semantically appropriate favour. Curry ‘spiced dish’ [16] was borrowed from Tamil kari ‘sauce’.
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curry (v.): late 13c., "to rub down a horse," from Anglo-French curreier "to curry-comb a horse," from Old French correier "put in order, prepare, curry," from con-, intensive prefix (see com-), + reier "arrange," from a Germanic source (see ready). Related: Curried; currying.
curry (n.): the spice, 1680s, from Tamil kari "sauce, relish for rice."

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5. He brought her some flowers, hoping to curry favor with her.: 他给她带来了一些花, 想讨好她.