英语词汇tea的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

tea. British slang for a cup of tea is “cuppa char.” Char is a corruption of cha, which means tea in England, deriving from the Mandarin ch’a for the same. Tea comes to us from the Chi- nese Amoy dialect t’e. The scientific name of the tea plant, Thea sinensis, sometimes grown in the United States, is the Latinized version of the Amoy name. Tea bags weren’t invented until the turn of the century, when an American tea wholesaler named Sullivan began mailing prospective customers one-cup samples of his tea contained in little silk bags. The idea didn’t catch on because the cloth changed the flavor of the tea, but during World War II chemists developed a tasteless paper tea bag that became extremely popular and accounts for most of the tea sold in America today. See also all the tea in china; spot of tay; tempest in a teapot.

词汇	tea
词源	tea. British slang for a cup of tea is “cuppa char.” Char is a corruption of cha, which means tea in England, deriving from the Mandarin ch’a for the same. Tea comes to us from the Chi- nese Amoy dialect t’e. The scientific name of the tea plant, Thea sinensis, sometimes grown in the United States, is the Latinized version of the Amoy name. Tea bags weren’t invented until the turn of the century, when an American tea wholesaler named Sullivan began mailing prospective customers one-cup samples of his tea contained in little silk bags. The idea didn’t catch on because the cloth changed the flavor of the tea, but during World War II chemists developed a tasteless paper tea bag that became extremely popular and accounts for most of the tea sold in America today. See also all the tea in china; spot of tay; tempest in a teapot.
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