英语词汇pear的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

pear. One of the earliest cultivated fruits, pears are among the few fruits that ripen better after being picked, and the Chinese often ripened them in rooms filled with incense. The fruit, shaped like a Rubens nude, goes incomparably well with cheese desserts, Rabelais writing that: “There is no match you could compare/To Master Cheese and Mistress Pear.” The old French piere, derived from the Latin pirum, gave us our word pear. Of the over 3,000 pear species, the Bartlett is perhaps the best known in America, representing 70 percent of this country’s crop. It is a soft, late-ripening European-type, as opposed to earlier hard varieties like the Seckel, which is named for the Philadelphia farmer who first grew it, during the Revolution. The Bartlett wasn’t, in fact, developed by Dorchester, Massa- chusetts merchant Enoch Bartlett, as is generally believed. Bar- tlett only promoted the fruit after Captain Thomas Brewer im- ported the trees from England and grew them in his Roxbury farm. The enterprising Yankee eventually purchased Brewer’s farm and distributed the pears under his own name in the early 1800s. They had long been known in Europe as Williams, or William Bon Chrétien pears.

词汇	pear
词源	pear. One of the earliest cultivated fruits, pears are among the few fruits that ripen better after being picked, and the Chinese often ripened them in rooms filled with incense. The fruit, shaped like a Rubens nude, goes incomparably well with cheese desserts, Rabelais writing that: “There is no match you could compare/To Master Cheese and Mistress Pear.” The old French piere, derived from the Latin pirum, gave us our word pear. Of the over 3,000 pear species, the Bartlett is perhaps the best known in America, representing 70 percent of this country’s crop. It is a soft, late-ripening European-type, as opposed to earlier hard varieties like the Seckel, which is named for the Philadelphia farmer who first grew it, during the Revolution. The Bartlett wasn’t, in fact, developed by Dorchester, Massa- chusetts merchant Enoch Bartlett, as is generally believed. Bar- tlett only promoted the fruit after Captain Thomas Brewer im- ported the trees from England and grew them in his Roxbury farm. The enterprising Yankee eventually purchased Brewer’s farm and distributed the pears under his own name in the early 1800s. They had long been known in Europe as Williams, or William Bon Chrétien pears.
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