• n. [園藝] 芹菜

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celery

celery: [17] Celery comes ultimately from Greek sélīnon, which signified ‘parsley’ – like the celery, a plant of the group Umbelliferae (the English word parsley comes from Greek petrōselínon, literally ‘rock parsley’). It came into English via Latin selīnon, Italian dialect selleri, and French céleri. The term celeriac was formed from celery in the early 18th century; it first appears in an advertisement in the London and country brewer 1743.
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celery (n.)

1660s, from French céleri (17c., originally sceleri d'Italie), said by French sources to be from Italian (Lombard dialect) seleri (singular selero), from Late Latin selinon, from Greek selinon "parsley," which is of uncertain origin.

[O]ne day, in a weak and hungry moment, my roommate and I succumbed to a bit of larceny. A greengrocer's truck had parked down the street and was left unattended. We grabbed the first crate we could off the back. It turned out to be celery. For two days we ate nothing but celery and used up more calories chewing than we realized in energy. "Damn it," I said to my roommate, "What're we going to do? We can't starve." "That's funny," he replied. "I thought we could." [Chuck Jones, "Chuck Amuck," 1989]

1. Instead of snacking on crisps and chocolate, nibble on celery or carrot.

不要把薯片和巧克力當(dāng)零食來吃，要吃些芹菜和胡蘿卜。

來自柯林斯例句

2. a stick of celery

一根芹菜

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

3. I have a thing around celery. I can't stand it.

我很討厭芹菜, 我無法忍受它(的味道).

來自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

4. Chop the celery and add it to the salad.

把芹菜切碎放到色拉.

來自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

5. Caroline dug up a head of celery.

卡羅琳從地里挖出一棵芹菜.

來自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》