chestnut

• n. 栗子；栗色；[园艺] 栗树；栗色马
• adj. 栗色的
• n. (Chestnut)人名；(英)切斯特纳特

来自希腊词地名Castana, 至于树以地名还是地以树名尚存争议。nut, 坚果。比较current.

1. wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea

2. any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur

3. edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea

4. a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg

5. a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse

chestnut

chestnut: [16] The Greek word for ‘chestnut’ was kastanéā, which appears to have meant originally ‘nut from Castanea’ (in Pontus, Asia Minor) or ‘nut from Castana’ (in Thessaly, Greece). It came into English via Latin castanea and Old French chastaine, which in the 14th century produced the Middle English form chasteine or chesteine. Over the next two hundred years this developed to chestern, and in due course had nut added to it to produce the modern English form. Castana, the Spanish descendant of Latin castanea, is the source of castanet.
=> castanet

chestnut (n.)

1560s, from chesten nut (1510s), with superfluous nut (n.) + Middle English chasteine, from Old French chastain (12c., Modern French châtaigne), from Latin castanea "chestnut, chestnut tree," from Greek kastaneia, which the Greeks thought meant either "nut from Castanea" in Pontus, or "nut from Castana" in Thessaly, but probably both places are named for the trees, not the other way around, and the word is borrowed from a language of Asia Minor (compare Armenian kask "chestnut," kaskeni "chestnut tree"). In reference to the dark reddish-brown color, 1650s. Applied to the horse-chestnut by 1832.

Slang sense of "venerable joke or story" is from 1885, explained 1888 by Joseph Jefferson (see "Lippincott's Monthly Magazine," January 1888) as probably abstracted from the 1816 melodrama "The Broken Sword" by William Dimond where an oft-repeated story involving a chestnut tree figures in an exchange between the characters "Captain Zavior" and "Pablo":

Zav. Let me see--ay! it is exactly six years since that peace being restored to Spain, and my ship paid off, my kind brother offered me a snug hammock in the dwelling of my forefathers. I mounted a mule at Barcelona and trotted away for my native mountains. At the dawn of the fourth day's journey, I entered the wood of Collares, when, suddenly, from the thick boughs of a cork-tree--
Pab. [Jumping up.] A chesnut, Captain, a chesnut!
Zav. Bah, you booby! I say, a cork!
Pab. And I swear, a chesnut. Captain, this is the twenty-seventh time I have heard you relate this story, and you invariably said, a chesnut, till now.

Jefferson traced the connection through William Warren, "the veteran comedian of Boston" who often played Pablo in the melodrama.

roast chestnuts

炒板栗

牛津词典

...a woman with chestnut hair.

栗色头发的女子

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a chestnut mare.

枣红色母马

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...that old chestnut, the war between man and machines.

又是老掉牙的故事：人机大战

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The chestnut was in flower and the bells rang high clear over her gables and cupola.

栗树开花,钟声清晰地高高飘过山墙和圆屋顶.

期刊摘选

Objective: Analysis the nutrients as protein, fat, dietary fibre and vitamin in northeast water chestnut.

目的:分 析东北菱中水分、灰分、蛋白质 、 脂肪 、 膳食纤维和维生素等营养素的含量.

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Her hair is a chestnut color.

她的头发是褐色[栗色]的.

辞典例句

Mineral Oil, Horse Chestnut Extract, Beeswax, Lanolin, Arnica Montana Extract, Dead Sea Mineral Water, Germ Oil.

矿物油, 欧洲七叶树萃取物, 蜂蜡, 羊毛脂,山金车蒙大拿萃取物, 死海矿物水, 麦芽油.

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Whether walnut, peanut, melon seeds, chestnut, almond, seed calculate the plant fruit heart or not!

核桃, 花生, 瓜子, 栗子, 杏仁, 莲子算不算植物果心!

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Basilisks'hides range from dark chestnut shades of brown to mossy green and ocean blue.

蜥怪的皮从暗板栗色,暗棕色,到苔藓绿与海蓝都有.

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Chestnut blight is one of most serious diseases of chestnut world widely.

板栗疫病是世界性栗树病害之一.

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Product Description: water chestnut can be fresh cooking, but also the system starch.

产品简介: 菱角可以鲜煮食, 又可制淀粉.

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We have a chestnut tree in the bottom of our garden.

我们的花园尽头有一棵栗树.

《简明英汉词典》

The Japanese chestnut ( called kurt ) was in cultivation long before rice.

日本板栗 ( 称为库里 ) 远比水稻种植久远.

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The Chestnut Tree was almost empty.

栗树咖啡馆里阒无一人.

英汉文学

These changes varied for different varieties of Chestnut.

结果表明,在不同贮藏条件下,板栗的成分将发生变化.

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Ingredients: sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, vegetable, whole milk powder, chestnut power, soya lecithin, vanillin.

配料: 白砂糖 、 可可白脱 、 可可液块、全脂牛乳粉 、 植物油脂 、 栗子粉 、 大豆磷脂 、 香兰素.

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The chestnut is being retired.

那匹栗色马将要退休了.

《简明英汉词典》

Pull the chestnut out of fire.

火中取栗.

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Water chestnut is rich in starch, protein, sugar, grapes collapse.

菱角含有丰富的淀粉 、 蛋白质, 崩萄糖.

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Chestnut is one the important economic forest area in China. Its output on the topthe world.

板栗是我国重要的山区经济林之一, 产量居世界第一位.

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Chestnut soil in Xilin river basin has the property of typical grassland soil.

锡林河流域栗钙土具有典型的草原土壤特征.

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It'should build Chinese chestnut gene bank to protect the Chinese chestnut resources.

提出了建立板栗基因库,保护板栗种质资源的合理建议.

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Longnan County and along the mountains are rich chestnut hair.

文县及陇南山区一带都盛产毛栗子.

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an avenue of stately chestnut trees

两边有雄伟高大栗树的林荫道

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

The fruit is rather like a sweet chestnut.

这种果实颇似甜栗子。

柯林斯例句

The cock's breast is tinged with chestnut.

这只公鸡胸部羽毛呈浅栗色，带有白色细条纹。

柯林斯例句