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英 [kɔːn] 美[kɔrn]

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n. （美）玉米；（英）谷物；[皮肤] 鸡眼
vt. 腌；使成颗粒
n. (Corn)人名；(英、法、瑞典)科恩

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复数: corns;

中文词源

corn 谷物

词源同grain, 谷物。

英英释意

1. tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times

2. the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal

3. ears of corn grown for human food

4. a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes

5. annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains

6. whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn

7. something sentimental or trite;: "that movie was pure corn"

英文词源

corn: corn: [OE] The underlying sense of corn is of grinding down into small particles. The word comes ultimately from the Indo-European base *ger-, which meant ‘wear away’. From it was derived *grnóm ‘worn-down particle’, which in Latin produced grānum (source of English grain) and in prehistoric Germanic produced *kurnam, which developed into Old English corn.

Already in Germanic times the word had developed in meaning from simply ‘particle’ to ‘small seed’ and specifically ‘cereal grain’, but English corn was not of course applied to ‘maize’ before that plant came to Europe from America in the 16th century. The original sense ‘particle’ survives in corned beef, where corned refers to the grains of salt with which the meat is preserved.

The meaning ‘hackneyed or sentimental matter’ is a 20th-century development, based on the supposedly unsophisticated life of country areas. Kernel comes from an Old English diminutive form of corn. Corn ‘hardening of the skin’ [15] is a completely different word, coming via Anglo- Norman corn from Latin cornū ‘horn’.
=> grain; horn
corn (n.1): "grain," Old English corn, from Proto-Germanic *kurnam "small seed" (cognates: Old Frisian and Old Saxon korn "grain," Middle Dutch coren, German Korn, Old Norse korn, Gothic kaurn), from PIE root *gre-no- "grain" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic zruno "grain," Latin granum "seed," Lithuanian žirnis "pea"). The sense of the Old English word was "grain with the seed still in" (as in barleycorn) rather than a particular plant.

Locally understood to denote the leading crop of a district. Restricted to the indigenous "maize" in America (c. 1600, originally Indian corn, but the adjective was dropped), usually wheat in England, oats in Scotland and Ireland, while Korn means "rye" in parts of Germany. Maize was introduced to China by 1550, it thrived where rice did not grow well and was a significant factor in the 18th century population boom there. Cornflakes first recorded 1907. Corned beef so called for the "corns" or grains of salt with which it is preserved; from verb corn "to salt" (1560s).
corn (n.2): "hardening of skin," early 15c., from Old French corne (13c.) "horn (of an animal)," later, "corn on the foot," from Latin cornu "horn," from PIE *ker- (1) "horn; head, uppermost part of the body" (see horn (n.)).

同义词辨析

corn, crop, grain

这些名词都有"谷物"之意。

corn：主要指大麦、小麦、燕麦、裸麦、玉蜀黍这5种谷物及其粒子。

crop：指谷物或果类等一年或一季的收成，也可指地里的农业作物或谷物。

grain：指稻、麦等谷类及其粒子。

考试真题

The boat, traveling between Nicaragua’s Big Corn Island and LittleCorn Island turned over Saturday near the larger island.

As a result, wheat prices elsewhere more than doubled, pulling rice and corn prices up with them.

The boat, traveling between Nicaragua's Big Corn Island and Little Corn Island turned over Saturday near the larger island.

In short, savings are the seed corn of a good economic harvest.

What does the author mean by saying "savings are the seed corn of a good economic harvest" (Lines 3-4, Para

But Smith counters that if you factor in the hidden cost of government corn subsidies, environment degradation, and decreased human heath and animal welfare, grass-fed is the more cost-effective model.

The rest is feed-lot confined and fed grain and corn.

A taste for meat is actually behind the change: an important part of its corn is used to feed chickens, pigs, and cattle.

Another reason for corn's rise: the government encourages farmers to grow corn instead of rice to improve water quality.

Corn production has jumped nearly 125 percent over the past 25 years, while rice has increased only 7 percent.

Corn uses less water than rice and creates less fertilizer (化肥) runoff.

Dad pulled out a pressure cooker and filled it up with cabbages, eggplants, potatoes, corns, onions and carrots.

In the southern United States, pieces of corn bread represent blocks of gold for prosperity in the new year.

Since 2011, the country has grown more corn than rice.

Production of corn, cotton, rice, soybeans, and wheat has been largely mechanized, but many high-value, labor-intensive corps, such as strawberries, need labor.

词组搭配

corn on the cob

maize when cooked and eaten straight from the cob

（煮食的）玉米棒子

实用场景例句

a field of corn: 一片庄稼

ears/sheaves of corn: 谷穗；一捆捆的谷物

corn-fed chicken: 用谷物饲养的鸡

...fields of corn...: 麦田

He filled the barn to the roof with corn.: 他将谷仓装满了谷物。

...rows of corn in an Iowa field.: 艾奥瓦州农田里成排的玉米

Tax planning is the inevitable counter move to taxpayer in the society who rule by law.: 税收筹划是依法治税时纳税人必然采取的对策.

Corn is America's most important grain.: 玉米是美国最重要的谷物.

Man can't live without corn.: 没有五谷杂粮人类就不能生存.

This corn ears well.: 这株玉米抽穗很好.

The corn is blossoming [ ripening ].: 玉米正在开花 [ 成熟 ].

The corn has begun to tassel.: 玉米开始长出穗状雄花.

There was an abundance of corn last year.: 去年玉米丰收.

Fields of corn spread out as far as the eye could see.: 玉米地延伸到看不到边的地方.

Corn is also called " Indian corn ".: 玉蜀黍又称为印第安玉米.

Corn starch is used as a thickener in stews.: 玉米淀粉在炖煮菜肴中被用作增稠剂.

The hen ate the grains of corn on the ground.: 母鸡啄食地上的谷粒.

The corn was thick in the field.: 田里的麦子长得很茂盛.

He must not measure his neighbour's corn by his own bushel.: 他不应该拿自己的标准去衡量邻居.

Corn and cotton are extensively cultivated in this region.: 这个地区普遍种植玉米和蔬菜.

There is a lot of good corn land around here.: 这附近有许多良田.

The writer used the image of corn silk to describe the girl's hair.: 作者用玉米须来比喻那女孩的头发.

This is a romantic ballad that is pure corn.: 这是一首极为伤感的浪漫小曲.

Stocks of corn were studded over the field.: 遍地都是禾束堆.

Corn is one of an annual.: 玉米是一年生植物.

The corn flour has been ground very fine.: 玉米面磨得很细.

corn on the cob: 玉米棒子

a field of corn: 一片庄稼

They are offering farmers $2.15 a bushel for corn.: 他们向农民出价每蒲式耳2.15美元收购玉米。

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