whisky

英 ['wɪskɪ] 美['wɪski]

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1. German Wasser "water" => Old Irish uisce "water" => whisky / whiskey.
2. 来源于对酒的美称“生命之水”。
3. 音译“威士忌”。

whisky: whisky: [18] Whisky denotes etymologically ‘water of life’. The word is short for an earlier whiskybae, which was an alteration of usquebaugh; and this in turn was an anglicization of Gaelic uisge beatha ‘water of life’ (Gaelic uisge ‘water’ comes from the same Indo-European source as English water, and beatha ‘life’ is related to Latin vīta ‘life’ and English vital). The distinction in spelling between Scotch whisky and American and Irish whiskey goes back no further than the 19th century. French eau de vie ‘brandy’, literally ‘water of life’, is semantically identical.
=> vital, water
whisky (n.): see whiskey.

1. It was his invariable custom to have one whisky before his supper.: 晚饭前来杯威士忌，这是他一直以来的习惯。

2. Francis poured a generous measure of the whisky into a fresh glass.: 弗朗西斯往一个干净的玻璃杯里倒了很多威士忌。

3. When his whisky came he drank half of it in one gulp.: 威士忌端上来后，他一口气就喝掉了一半。

4. Her husband's memories are of living off roast chicken and drinking whisky.: 她丈夫只记得过去吃烤鸡、喝威士忌的日子。

5. The island's present economy owes a good deal to whisky distilling.: 该岛当前的经济发展主要归功于蒸馏法酿造威士忌酒行业。