英语词汇blackberry的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

blackberry. The blackberry, a member of the rose family and named for its color, has been valued since ancient times, when the Greeks enjoyed it and believed that it prevented gout. In En- gland blackberries are the most common fruit growing in the wild and proverbially came to represent what is plentiful because they outyield all other bramble fruits: One plant can produce up to five gallons of berries. “Plentiful as blackberries” comes to us from Shakespeare, though what he actually wrote was, “If rea- sons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.” (Henry IV, Part I). A period of cool weather in spring, usually May or June, when blackberries are in bloom, is called a “blackberry winter,” and a “blackberry summer” is a period of fine weather in late September or early October. Black- berry baby is a century-old American euphemism for an illegiti- mate child, suggesting that such children are secretly conceived in places like the distant woods where blackberries grow. In 1997, a wireless handheld device called a BlackBerry was introduced and became instantly popular. On April 2, 2008, the Canadian company that developed the device announced that subscribers had passed 14 million. See boysenberry.

词汇	blackberry
词源	blackberry. The blackberry, a member of the rose family and named for its color, has been valued since ancient times, when the Greeks enjoyed it and believed that it prevented gout. In En- gland blackberries are the most common fruit growing in the wild and proverbially came to represent what is plentiful because they outyield all other bramble fruits: One plant can produce up to five gallons of berries. “Plentiful as blackberries” comes to us from Shakespeare, though what he actually wrote was, “If rea- sons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.” (Henry IV, Part I). A period of cool weather in spring, usually May or June, when blackberries are in bloom, is called a “blackberry winter,” and a “blackberry summer” is a period of fine weather in late September or early October. Black- berry baby is a century-old American euphemism for an illegiti- mate child, suggesting that such children are secretly conceived in places like the distant woods where blackberries grow. In 1997, a wireless handheld device called a BlackBerry was introduced and became instantly popular. On April 2, 2008, the Canadian company that developed the device announced that subscribers had passed 14 million. See boysenberry.
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