英语词汇mango的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

mango. The mango is one of the most important of tropical fruits. Mango varieties number in the hundreds. Some of the notable dessert mangoes are the Alphonse of Bombay, the Fer- dandin of Goa and the Kimayuddin of South India. The delec- table fruit, whose name derives from the Portuguese manga, taken from its Malayan name, or from the Chinese man-guoh, meaning hair-fruit, is grown in the American South, but these varieties can’t be compared to tropical ones in taste. One Indian poet described mangoes as “sealed jars of paradisical honey”; the Buddha was given a grove of them so that he could sit in the shade and meditate; and a Hindu god, Subramanya, renounced the world because he couldn’t obtain a mango he desired. The mango isn’t a difficult fruit to eat once you get the hang of cut- ting the pulp away from its large central seed, but it might be better to eat it in a bathtub to avoid the explosion of juice that is common to novices. The nutritious mango tastes something like a peach, but the comparison is wholly inadequate. An at- tractive bright yellow and red fruit, it hangs like a pendulum from its long stem. A building in Angkor that dates to a.d. 961 bears the following quotation under one of its most beautiful female figures: “Drawn by the flower of its glory to the fruit of the beauty of the mango tree of her body . . . the eye of man could nevermore tear itself away.”

词汇	mango
词源	mango. The mango is one of the most important of tropical fruits. Mango varieties number in the hundreds. Some of the notable dessert mangoes are the Alphonse of Bombay, the Fer- dandin of Goa and the Kimayuddin of South India. The delec- table fruit, whose name derives from the Portuguese manga, taken from its Malayan name, or from the Chinese man-guoh, meaning hair-fruit, is grown in the American South, but these varieties can’t be compared to tropical ones in taste. One Indian poet described mangoes as “sealed jars of paradisical honey”; the Buddha was given a grove of them so that he could sit in the shade and meditate; and a Hindu god, Subramanya, renounced the world because he couldn’t obtain a mango he desired. The mango isn’t a difficult fruit to eat once you get the hang of cut- ting the pulp away from its large central seed, but it might be better to eat it in a bathtub to avoid the explosion of juice that is common to novices. The nutritious mango tastes something like a peach, but the comparison is wholly inadequate. An at- tractive bright yellow and red fruit, it hangs like a pendulum from its long stem. A building in Angkor that dates to a.d. 961 bears the following quotation under one of its most beautiful female figures: “Drawn by the flower of its glory to the fruit of the beauty of the mango tree of her body . . . the eye of man could nevermore tear itself away.”
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