英语词汇avocado的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

avocado. When Montezuma served the avocado, or alligator pear, to Cortés and his conquistadores, the Aztecs explained that their ahucatl was so named from their word meaning “tes- ticle,” not only because the fruit resembled a testicle but because it supposedly excited sexual passion. The Aztecs even drew their guests pictures to illustrate their story, but to the Span- iards ahucatl sounded like avocado, their word for “advocate,” and they named it so when they brought it back to Spain. In Eu- rope the avocado became a great favorite, and France’s Sun King called it la bonne poire (the good pear) because it seemed to get a rise out of his setting libido. Aphrodisiac or not, the fruit remains an important meat substitute in parts of the world today and a delicious dessert in others.

词汇	avocado
词源	avocado. When Montezuma served the avocado, or alligator pear, to Cortés and his conquistadores, the Aztecs explained that their ahucatl was so named from their word meaning “tes- ticle,” not only because the fruit resembled a testicle but because it supposedly excited sexual passion. The Aztecs even drew their guests pictures to illustrate their story, but to the Span- iards ahucatl sounded like avocado, their word for “advocate,” and they named it so when they brought it back to Spain. In Eu- rope the avocado became a great favorite, and France’s Sun King called it la bonne poire (the good pear) because it seemed to get a rise out of his setting libido. Aphrodisiac or not, the fruit remains an important meat substitute in parts of the world today and a delicious dessert in others.
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