pickle
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 盐卤，腌汁，泡菜，困境，讨厌鬼
- vt.
- 腌制，酸洗，葬送(机会等)，泡
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词源说明
From Middle English pikel (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”), borrowed from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pekel (“brine”). Cognate with Scots pikkill (“salt liquor, brine”), Saterland Frisian Piekele (“pickle, brine”), Dutch pekel (“pickle, brine”), Low German pekel, peckel, pickel, bickel (“pickle, brine”), German Pökel (“pickle, brine”), Icelandic pækill (“brine”).
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
- (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- (UK) A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
- The brine used for preserving food.
- (informal) A difficult situation; peril