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apple

英 ['æp(ə)l] 美['æpl]

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n. 苹果，苹果树，苹果似的东西；[美俚]炸弹，手榴弹，（棒球的）球；[美俚]人，家伙。

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复数: apples;

中文词源

apple 苹果

来自PIE *abel, 水果，后特指苹果。

英英释意

1. fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

2. native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits

英文词源

apple: apple: [OE] Words related to apple are found all over Europe; not just in Germanic languages (German apfel, Dutch appel, Swedish äpple), but also in Balto-Slavonic (Lithuanian óbuolas, Polish jabtko), and Celtic (Irish ubhall, Welsh afal) languages. The Old English version was æppel, which developed to modern English apple.

Apparently from earliest times the word was applied not just to the fruit we now know as the apple, but to any fruit in general. For example, John de Trevisa, in his translation of De proprietatibus rerum 1398 wrote ‘All manner apples that is, “fruit” that are enclosed in a hard skin, rind, or shell, are called Nuces nuts’. The term earth-apple has been applied to several vegetables, including the cucumber and the potato (compare French pomme de terre), and pineapple (which originally meant ‘pine cone’, with particular reference to the edible pine nuts) was applied to the tropical fruit in the 17th century, because of its supposed resemblance to a pine cone.
apple (n.): Old English æppel "apple; any kind of fruit; fruit in general," from Proto-Germanic *ap(a)laz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch appel, Old Norse eple, Old High German apful, German Apfel), from PIE *ab(e)l "apple" (cognates: Gaulish avallo "fruit;" Old Irish ubull, Lithuanian obuolys, Old Church Slavonic jabloko "apple"), but the exact relation and original sense of these is uncertain (compare melon).
A roted eppel amang þe holen, makeþ rotie þe yzounde. ["Ayenbite of Inwit," 1340]
In Middle English and as late as 17c., it was a generic term for all fruit other than berries but including nuts (such as Old English fingeræppla "dates," literally "finger-apples;" Middle English appel of paradis "banana," c. 1400). Hence its grafting onto the unnamed "fruit of the forbidden tree" in Genesis. Cucumbers, in one Old English work, are eorþæppla, literally "earth-apples" (compare French pomme de terre "potato," literally "earth-apple;" see also melon). French pomme is from Latin pomum "apple; fruit" (see Pomona).
As far as the forbidden fruit is concerned, again, the Quran does not mention it explicitly, but according to traditional commentaries it was not an apple, as believed by Christians and Jews, but wheat. ["The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity," Seyyed Hossein Nasr, 2002]
Apple of Discord (c. 1400) was thrown into the wedding of Thetis and Peleus by Eris (goddess of chaos and discord), who had not been invited, and inscribed kallisti "To the Prettiest One." Paris, elected to choose which goddess should have it, gave it to Aphrodite, offending Hera and Athene, with consequences of the Trojan War, etc.

Apple of one's eye (Old English), symbol of what is most cherished, was the pupil, supposed to be a globular solid body. Apple-polisher "one who curries favor" first attested 1928 in student slang. The image of something that upsets the apple cart is attested from 1788. Road apple "horse dropping" is from 1942.

考试真题

That’s why horses, which also come from Central Asia, like both apples and carrots so much.

Like apples, carrots are native to Central Asia.

The reaction to his death, with people leaving candles and flowers outside Apple stores and politicians singing praises on the internet, is proof that Mr Jobs had become something much more significant than just a clever money-maker.

His fall from grace in the 1980s, followed by his return to Apple in 1996 after a period in the wilderness, is an inspiration to any businessperson whose career has taken a turn for the worse

The way in which Mr Jobs revived the failing company he had co-founded and turned it into the world's biggest tech firm (bigger even than Bill Gates's Microsoft, the company that had outsmarted Apple so dramatically in the 1980s), sounds like something from a Hollywood movie.

Many Apple users feel themselves to be part of a community, with Mr Jobs as its leader

It is no longer just at Apple that designers ask: "What would Steve Jobs do?

The gap between Apple and other tech firms is now likely to narrow

At the recent unveiling of a tablet computer by Jeff Bezos of Amazon, whose company is doing the best job of following Apple's lead in combining hardware, software, content and services in an easy-to-use bundle, there were several attacks at Apple.

With Mr Jobs gone, Apple is just one of many technology firms trying to arouse his uncontrollable spirit in new products

Mr Jobs was said by an engineer in the early years of Apple to emit a "reality distortion （扭曲）field", such were his powers of persuasion.

He commanded absolute loyalty from Apple users

He left his fingerprints all over Apple products.

In spite of the user-friendliness of Apple products, critics complained that they were

Instead, the company said Tuesday, its employees will ask parents whether they prefer such options as milk or sliced apples before assembling the meals.

Not only that, it supports a number of platforms: Apple's i OS, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows phone.

Taking a step that many professors may view as a bit counterproductive, some colleges and universities are doling out Apple iPhones and Internet-capable iPods to their students.

It is not clear how many colleges and universities plan to give out iPhones and iPods this fall; officials at Apple were unwilling to talk about the subject and said that they would not leak any institution's plans

We can't announce other people's news," said Greg Joswiak, vice president of iPod and iPhone marketing at Apple.

University officials say that they have no plans to track their students (and Apple said it would not be possible unless students give their permission)

Many professors think that giving out Apple iPhones or Internet-capable iPods to students may not benefit education as intended.

Apple stands to win as well, hooking more young consumers with decades of technology purchases ahead of them.

And to get at the contents of a single iPhone, the government says it needs a court order and Apple's help to write new code; in earlier versions of the iPhone, ones that were created before Apple found religion on 热衷于 privacy, the Fbi might have been abl

Apple and other tech companies hold another ace: the technical means to keep making their devices more and more inaccessible.

Apple argues that it is fighting to preserve a principle that most of us who are addicted to our smartphones can defend: Weaken a single iPhone so that its contents can be viewed by the American government and you risk weakening all iPhones for any govern

As Apple and several security experts have argued, an order compelling Apple to write software that gives the Fbi access to the iPhone in question would establish an unsettling precedent.

At the same time, this sea-water also kills off the greedy giant apple snail, an introduced pest that feeds on young rice plants.

Experts said that whether or not Apple loses this specific case, measures that it could put into place in the future will almost certainly be able to further limit the government's reach.

For instance, the letter A was ant or apple or ax.

For now, the giant apple snail's presence in Europe is limited to the Ebro Delta.

Google and Apple have made it far too difficult to adjust these settings so it's up to us to take steps to ensure we set these triggers to suit our own needs, not the needs of the app makers.

If Apple alters the security model of future iPhones so that even its own engineers' "reasonable assistance" will not be able to crack a given device when compelled by the government, a precedent set in this case might lose its lasting force.

If Apple is forced to open up an iPhone for an American law enforcement investigation, what is to prevent it from doing so for a request from the Russians or the Iranians?

More than that, Apple—and, in different ways, other tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft—have made their opposition to the government's claims a point of corporate pride.

Once armed with a method for gaining access to iPhones, the government could ask to use it proactively, before a suspected terrorist attack—leaving Apple in a bind as to whether to comply or risk an attack and suffer a public-relations nightmare.

That way, Apple could not unilaterally introduce a code that weakens the iPhone—a user would have to consent to it.

The action stems from a federal court order issued on Tuesday requiring Apple to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation to unlock an iPhone used by one of the two attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in December.

The battle between Apple and law enforcement officials over unlocking a terrorist's smartphone is the culmination of a slow turning of the tables between the technology industry and the United States government.

The Ebro Delta, in Spain, famous as a battleground during the Spanish civil War, is now the setting for a different contest, one that is pitting rice farmers against two enemies: the rice-eating giant apple snail, and rising sea levels.

The order essentially asks Apple to hack its own devices, and once it is in place, the precedent could be used to justify law enforcement efforts to get around encryption technologies in other investigations far removed from national security threats.

Yet it is worth noting that even if Apple ultimately loses this case, it has plenty of technical means to close a backdoor over time.

Yet underlying all of this is a simple dynamic: Apple, Google, Facebook and other companies hold most of the cards in this confrontation.

Apple days are being held at all sorts of places with an interest in fruit, including stately gardens and commercial orchards.

At the events, you can meet expert growers and discuss which ones will best suit your conditions, and because these are family affairs, children are well catered for with apple-themed fun and games.

Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their big apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion.

I hurried directly to my backyard, where an apple tree patiently waited for me.

If you are a fruit grower — or would like to become one — take advantage of apple day to see what's around.

It was under the apple tree in his backyard.

It's called apple day but in practice it's more like apple month.

One of the very best varieties for eating quality is Orleans Reinette, but you'll need a warm, sheltered place with perfect soil to grow it, so it's a pipe dream for most apple lovers who fall for it.

Visiting an apple event is a good chance to see, and often taste, a wide variety of apples.

Many French politicians and media outlets have referred to this as a "GAFA tax," meaning that it is designed to apply primarily to companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon—in other words, multinational tech companies based in the United States

词组搭配

the apple never falls far from the tree

(proverb)salient family characteristics are usually inherited

(谚)苹果落地，离树不远

the apple of one's eye

a person of whom one is extremely fond and proud

热爱的人，至爱；引以自豪的人；掌上明珠；得意门生

apples and oranges

(N. Amer.)(of two people or things) irreconcilably or fundamentally different

(北美)（人，物）截然不同

apples and pears

(Brit. rhyming slang)stairs

(英, 谐俚)楼梯

he hasn't made it up those apples and pears in ten years.
他有十年没上那些楼梯了。

a rotten (或 bad) apple

(informal)a bad or corrupt person in a group, especially one whose behaviour is likely to have a detrimental influence on their associates

(非正式)害群之马；败类

she's apples

(Austral informal)used to indicate that everything is in good order and there is nothing to worry about

(澳，非正式)一切都好，不必担心

‘Is the fire safe?’ ‘Yeah, she's apples.’.
“这炉火安全吗？”“没问题，别担心。”。

upset the apple cart

spoil a plan or disturb the status quo

打乱计划，把事情搞砸

apple of (one's) eye

One that is treasured

宠物, 珍爱物

Her grandson is the apple of her eye.
孙子是她的掌上明珠

实用场景例句

apple sauce: 苹果沙司

a garden with three apple trees: 有3棵苹果树的花园

They really are apples and oranges.: 他们确实是迥然不同。

an apple pie: 苹果馅饼

I want an apple.: 我想要一个苹果。

...2kg cooking apples.: 两公斤烹调用的苹果

Penny's only son was the apple of her eye.: 彭妮的独子是她的心肝宝贝。

The apple blossom is beginning to drop.: 苹果树上的花开始落了.

The apple tree leaned to the field, dropping its flowers on the grass.: 那棵苹果树的树枝朝田里伸去, 花落在了草上.

His youngest daughter is the apple of his eye.: 他的小女儿是他的掌上明珠.

These fruit knives are very good for stripping apple skins off.: 这种水果刀削苹果皮很好用.

The apple blossom is out.: 苹果花开了.

They served apple pudding for dessert.: 他们端上了苹果布丁作为甜食.

Apple costs five dollars a kilogram.: 苹果每千克5美元.

He ate an apple whole.: 他把整个苹果一口吃下.

The apple made a bulge in his pocket.: 苹果把他口袋塞得鼓了起来.

When I bit into the apple, and finding it wormy, I flung it away.: 我咬了一口苹果, 发现有虫子, 就把它扔掉了.

Some of the new planted apple orchards have also begun to bear.: 有些新开的苹果园也开始结苹果了.

The boy grabbed the apple and ran off ( with it ).: 那孩子抢了那个苹果就跑了.

He aimed at the apple and orange.: 他想要苹果和橘子.

I threw the apple to him and he caught it.: 我把苹果扔给他,他接着了.

It is gravitation that causes the apple to fall.: 是地心吸引力使苹果下落.

Can you reach that apple down in the tree?: 你能把树上那个苹果摘下来吗 ?

I don't like a tart apple.: 我不喜欢吃酸苹果.

This apple is very nice.: 这个苹果很好吃.

The apple blossoms filled the air with their fragrance.: 苹果花使空气充满香味.