| 词汇 | coffee |
| 词源 | coffee. Coffee was introduced to England from Turkey, where it was called qahwah, pronounced kahveh, a word that appar- ently first meant some kind of wine and derived from a verb meaning “to have no appetite.” The word came to England, per- haps from the Italian caffè, in about 1600. At first coffee’s repu- tation wasn’t good, one early English traveler warning that it “intoxicated the brain.” It has had widely varying reviews since. |
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