英语词汇candy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

candy. We know that candy of various kinds has been around for at least 4,000 years and that there are at least 2,000 varieties of it available today. It was probably the Greeks who brought the word candy into the language. It seems that a favorite of the troops of Alexander the Great was a Persian delicacy called kand—a sweet reed garnished with honey, spices, and coloring. The word candy itself either came to us from this kand that Al- exander’s men brought home to Greece, or from the old Arab word for sugar, quand.

词汇	candy
词源	candy. We know that candy of various kinds has been around for at least 4,000 years and that there are at least 2,000 varieties of it available today. It was probably the Greeks who brought the word candy into the language. It seems that a favorite of the troops of Alexander the Great was a Persian delicacy called kand—a sweet reed garnished with honey, spices, and coloring. The word candy itself either came to us from this kand that Al- exander’s men brought home to Greece, or from the old Arab word for sugar, quand.
随便看	best boy best greatest fighter pound for pound best of all possible worlds best-seller betel nut bet one-s bottom dollar better a hash at home than a roast with strangers better half better late than never better mousetrap better to give than to receive betty between a rock and a hard place between grass and hay between scylla and charybdis between the cup and the lip there-s many a slip between the devil and the deep blue sea between the lines between wind and water between you me and the bedpost between you me and the lamppost beulah land bevinism beware of and eschew pompous prolixity beware of dog