【英语学习】【WOTD】scrumptious 释义/词源/示例

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scrumptious adj. [SKRUMP-shus]

（食物）可口的；漂亮的

Definition

: delightful, excellent; especially: delicious
：可喜的，极好的；尤指：可口的

Did You Know?

First appearing in English in the early 1800s, scrumptious is a mouth-watering word that is used to describe what is delightful and delectable. It probably originated as an alteration of sumptuous, and it carries the elegant and wonderful connotations of its parent. (Speakers of Middle English borrowed sumptuous from the Latin adjective sumptuousus, a derivation of the Latin noun sumptus, meaning “expense” or “cost”). British author Roald Dahl had some fun with scrumptious and created a delightful coinage, when he inserted the infix -diddly- into the word to make scrumdiddlyumptious, the word that chocolate magnate Willy Wonka uses to name his best-selling treats in his novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964).

词源词根演化：(Unknown, Probably)
sumptus (“expense” or “cost”) —> sumptuousus —> sumptuous (Middle English) —> scrumptious

在1800年代早期第一次出现在英语中，scrumptious是一个令人流口水的单词，用于表达美味的，可口的。它有可能是sumptuous的变体写法，同时继承了sumptuous的优雅美味的涵义。（中古英语世界的sumptuous借自拉丁形容词sumptuousus，这个形容词又衍生自拉丁名词sumptus，意思是“花费”或者“成本”）。英国作家Roald Dahl对scrumptious做了一些花样演化，创造了一个有意思的新词。他把单词中缀*-diddly-插入到了scrumptious中间，形成了scrumdiddlyumptious*。巧克力巨头Willy Wonka在他1964年的小说《查理与巧克力工厂》中使用这个词来命名它最畅销的产品。

注：delectable：快乐的，美味的；connotation：涵义，言外之意，【逻】内涵；coinage：货币，创造货币，创造新词；magnate：巨头

Examples

• I prepared a scrumptious chocolate cake for our grandfather’s 80th birthday.
  我为爷爷的80大寿准备了一个极其美味的巧克力蛋糕。

• “The main dish was a scrumptious serving of noodles, chicken pieces and shrimp in a peanut-flavored sauce and some scallions.”
  — Maria Cortes Gonzalez, EI Paso Times, 11 Feb. 2019

  主菜包括美味的面条，含有鸡块与明虾的花生酱，以及小洋葱。

  注：scallion：小洋葱，冬葱