beer

• n. 啤酒
• vi. 喝啤酒
• n. (Beer)人名；(法、德、俄、罗、捷、瑞典)贝尔；(英、西、南非)[纺] 比尔

来自拉丁词biber, 喝，饮料，来自词根bib, 喝，见imbibe, 吸收。

beer

beer: [OE] Originally, beer was probably simply a general term for a ‘drink’: it seems to have come from late Latin biber ‘drink’, which was a derivative of the verb bibere ‘drink’ (from which English gets beverage, bibulous, imbibe, and possibly also bibber). The main Old English word for ‘beer’ was ale, and beer (Old English bēor) is not very common until the 15th century. A distinction between hopped beer and unhopped ale arose in the 16th century.
=> beverage, bibulous, imbibe

beer (n.)

Old English beor "strong drink, beer, mead," a word of much-disputed and ambiguous origin, cognate with Old Frisian biar, Middle Dutch and Dutch bier, Old High German bior, German Bier.

Probably a 6c. West Germanic monastic borrowing of Vulgar Latin biber "a drink, beverage" (from Latin infinitive bibere "to drink;" see imbibe). Another suggestion is that it comes from Proto-Germanic *beuwoz-, from *beuwo- "barley." The native Germanic word for the beverage was the one that yielded ale (q.v.).

Beer was a common drink among most of the European peoples, as well as in Egypt and Mesopotamia, but was known to the Greeks and Romans only as an exotic product. [Buck]

They did have words for it, however. Greek brytos, used in reference to Thracian or Phrygian brews, was related to Old English breowan "brew;" Latin zythum is from Greek zythos, first used of Egyptian beer and treated as an Egyptian word but perhaps truly Greek and related to zyme "leaven." French bière is from Germanic. Spanish cerveza is from Latin cervesia "beer," perhaps related to Latin cremor "thick broth."

Old Church Slavonic pivo, source of the general Slavic word for "beer," is originally "a drink" (compare Old Church Slavonic piti "drink"). French bière is a 16c. borrowing from German. U.S. slang beer goggles, through which every potential romantic partner looks desirable, is from 1986.

1. He cracked jokes and talked about beer and girls.

他爱说笑话，喜欢谈论啤酒和姑娘。

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2. He watched the barman prepare the beer he had ordered.

他看着酒吧招待员备好他点的啤酒。

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3. He was aware of the stink of stale beer on his breath.

他知道自己嘴里有股变味啤酒的馊味。

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4. He was short and fat, with a large beer belly.

他又矮又胖，挺着个大啤酒肚。

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5. He tossed Malone a can of beer, and took one himself.

他扔给马隆一罐啤酒，自己也拿了一罐。

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