英语词汇bilberries的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bilberries. “Pinch the maids as blue as Billberry,” Shakespeare wrote in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Billberries, or “whortle- berries,” or “blaeberries,” or “whinberries,” as they are variously called, are of the same genus as the blueberry. The main differ- ence between the two is that the bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) is a little plant no more than 18 inches tall that usually produces berries singly, not in clusters as blueberries do. “Nineteen bites to a bilberry,” a centuries-old British expression, means to make a major production of an inconsequential act, just as it would be to take 19 bites of a berry no more than one-quarter inch in diameter.

词汇	bilberries
词源	bilberries. “Pinch the maids as blue as Billberry,” Shakespeare wrote in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Billberries, or “whortle- berries,” or “blaeberries,” or “whinberries,” as they are variously called, are of the same genus as the blueberry. The main differ- ence between the two is that the bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) is a little plant no more than 18 inches tall that usually produces berries singly, not in clusters as blueberries do. “Nineteen bites to a bilberry,” a centuries-old British expression, means to make a major production of an inconsequential act, just as it would be to take 19 bites of a berry no more than one-quarter inch in diameter.
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