英语词汇olive的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

olive. Wine within, oil without, was the Roman formula for a happy life, and the oil with which they anointed their bodies was, of course, olive oil. Olives themselves were believed to stimulate drinking by the Romans, whose word oliva for the fruit became our olive. So interwoven is the olive with history—Noah’s biblical olive branch the symbol of peace; some of the ancient olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane possibly growing there since the time of Christ’s betrayal; Athens named for the goddess Athena after she gave the olive to man—that books have been written about the fruit. The olive tree, which has been known to live well over 1,000 years, was simply a staple of life, yielding both food and light (from lamp oil) and grown also for its symbolism of joy, happiness, and peace. Green olives are those picked early; the black ones are picked ripe. Both are very bitter indeed before they are soaked in a lye and salt solution and readied for market.

词汇	olive
词源	olive. Wine within, oil without, was the Roman formula for a happy life, and the oil with which they anointed their bodies was, of course, olive oil. Olives themselves were believed to stimulate drinking by the Romans, whose word oliva for the fruit became our olive. So interwoven is the olive with history—Noah’s biblical olive branch the symbol of peace; some of the ancient olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane possibly growing there since the time of Christ’s betrayal; Athens named for the goddess Athena after she gave the olive to man—that books have been written about the fruit. The olive tree, which has been known to live well over 1,000 years, was simply a staple of life, yielding both food and light (from lamp oil) and grown also for its symbolism of joy, happiness, and peace. Green olives are those picked early; the black ones are picked ripe. Both are very bitter indeed before they are soaked in a lye and salt solution and readied for market.
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