英语词汇sugar的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

sugar. The sweetener sugar, made mainly from sugarcane and beet sugar, takes its name from Persian sukkar for the same. First recorded as zuker in 1299, it has since the 1850s meant “money” and can be a welcome or unwelcome form of address from a man to a woman. Sugar coat means “to make something more palatable or acceptable.” “Did you know that sugar and sumac are the only two words in En- glish that begin with su and are pronounced shu?” historian B. H. Liddell Hart said to George Bernard Shaw. “Sure,” re- plied Shaw.

词汇	sugar
词源	sugar. The sweetener sugar, made mainly from sugarcane and beet sugar, takes its name from Persian sukkar for the same. First recorded as zuker in 1299, it has since the 1850s meant “money” and can be a welcome or unwelcome form of address from a man to a woman. Sugar coat means “to make something more palatable or acceptable.” “Did you know that sugar and sumac are the only two words in En- glish that begin with su and are pronounced shu?” historian B. H. Liddell Hart said to George Bernard Shaw. “Sure,” re- plied Shaw.
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