英语词汇banana的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

banana. Banana derives from the Arabic word banana, meaning finger, and even today the individual fruits forming the familiar banana “hand” are called “fingers.” The banana tree is really a giant herb with a rhizome instead of roots, and its “trunk” is made up of large leaves, not wood. The fruit was giv- en the scientific name Musa, comprising 18 species, by Linnae- us in honor of Antonio Musa, personal physician to the first emperor of Rome. Musa sapientum, the most common banana tree species, takes its second name from the Latin word for “wise man,” in reference to the Indian sages of old who reposed in its shade and ate of its fruit. Arabian slang and a score of oth- er languages make the fruit a synonym for the male sexual or- gan, not surprisingly, and “I had a banana with Lady Diana” was British slang for sexual intercourse up until about 1930. “Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel,” Emerson wrote in his Society and Solitude, and the Koran says that the forbidden fruit in Paradise was a banana, not an apple. Banana oil, incidentally, is a synthetic—bananas produce no commer- cial oil—and the banana, like the pear, is one of the few fruits that ripen better off the tree.

词汇	banana
词源	banana. Banana derives from the Arabic word banana, meaning finger, and even today the individual fruits forming the familiar banana “hand” are called “fingers.” The banana tree is really a giant herb with a rhizome instead of roots, and its “trunk” is made up of large leaves, not wood. The fruit was giv- en the scientific name Musa, comprising 18 species, by Linnae- us in honor of Antonio Musa, personal physician to the first emperor of Rome. Musa sapientum, the most common banana tree species, takes its second name from the Latin word for “wise man,” in reference to the Indian sages of old who reposed in its shade and ate of its fruit. Arabian slang and a score of oth- er languages make the fruit a synonym for the male sexual or- gan, not surprisingly, and “I had a banana with Lady Diana” was British slang for sexual intercourse up until about 1930. “Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel,” Emerson wrote in his Society and Solitude, and the Koran says that the forbidden fruit in Paradise was a banana, not an apple. Banana oil, incidentally, is a synthetic—bananas produce no commer- cial oil—and the banana, like the pear, is one of the few fruits that ripen better off the tree.
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