gravy

英 ['gre?v?] 美['ɡrevi]

英英釋義實用場景例句

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復數:?gravies;

gravy 肉汁

來自古法語grane, 沙司，燉汁，來自grain, 顆粒。即肉汁，形成顆粒條紋的湯汁。俚語義，美差。字母u, n拼寫變化比較spouse, sponsor,同時在過去很長一段時間字母u,v拼寫沒有嚴格的區分。

gravy: gravy: [14] To begin with, the word gravy signified a sort of spiced stock-based sauce served with white meat; it was not until the 16th century that its modern sense ‘meat juices’ or ‘sauce made from them’ emerged. Its origins are problematical. It is generally agreed that its v represents a misreading of an n in the Old French word, grané, from which it was borrowed (modern v was written u in medieval manuscripts, and was often very hard to distinguish from n); but what the source of grané was is not clear.

The favourite candidate is perhaps grain (source of English grain), as if ‘sauce flavoured with grains of spice’, but graine ‘meat’ has also been suggested.
=> grain
gravy (n.): late 14c. (early 14c. in Anglo-French), from Old French grave, graue, apparently a misspelling of grané "sauce, stew," with -n- misread for -u- -- the character used for -v- in medial positions in words in medieval manuscripts. The French word probably originally meant "properly grained, seasoned," from Latin granum "grain, seed" (see grain (n.)). Meaning "money easily acquired" first attested 1910; gravy train (1909) originally was railroad slang for a short haul that paid well. Gravy-boat "small, deep dish for holding gravy or sauce" is from 1827.

5. We were disgusted when bosses awarded themselves a massive pay rise. How can they get on the gravy train, but ask us to take a wage freeze?: 看到老板為自己大幅加薪，我們感到十分氣憤。他們憑什么輕輕松松撈油水卻要求我們不漲工資？