sherry: [16] Various sorts of dryish or sweetened white wine known as sack (etymologically ‘dry wine’) were imported into England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Many came from Spain, and the sort made around Xerez (now Jerez) in southern Spain was called in English (in an approximation to the Spanish pronunciation of Xerez) sherris sack. Before the end of the 16th century this had been reduced to sherry, which in due course came to be applied to the fortified Spanish wine that now goes by that name.
sherry (n.)
kind of white wine, c. 1600, mistaken singular from sherris (1530s), from Spanish (vino de) Xeres "(wine from) Xeres," modern Jerez (Roman (urbs) Caesaris) in Spain, near the port of Cadiz, where the wine was made.
雙語例句
1. Alex jumped up so violently that he overturned his glass of sherry.
亞歷克斯一下子暴跳起來，結(jié)果把他那杯雪利酒都打翻了。
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2. Sherry is half as strong again as table wine.
雪利酒比佐餐酒酒勁強一半。
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3. Cook pieces of succulent chicken with ample garlic and a little sherry.
烹飪鮮美滑嫩的雞肉時多加些大蒜，并滴入少許雪利酒。
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4. All sherry is made from wine fortified with brandy.
所有的雪利酒都是在葡萄酒中加入白蘭地勾兌成的。
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5. Sherry is black, tall, slender and soft-spoken.