White Russian
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
专有名词
英文释义
名词 n.
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A cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, vodka, and milk.
— Few cocktails include milk and cream, so the White Russian is a welcome departure from the norm. Already a popular drink in its own right, the White Russian was made famous by Jeff Bridges’ character in “The Big Lebowski.”
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A White Guardist, a Russian who did not support the Socialists in the Revolution in 1917 and the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), and afterwards (e.g. as a White émigré).
— The White Guard colony in Harbin is armed and organized along military lines. At the head of this army of counter-revolution—the shock troops of Japanese imperialism—stands the notorious tsarist bandit, "Ataman" Semionov.
- A Belarusian person.
形容词 adj.
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Of or relating to Russians with tsarist or anti-Soviet sympathies in the period directly following the Revolution in 1917.
— The overseer of the clinic was a White Russian woman, a nun, formerly of the Russian Orthodox community in Jerusalem, but a good-hearted woman. In these cases, we should not be too scrupulous politically, said the priest.
- Of or relating to Belarus, literally "White Russia", or its language.
专有名词
- The Belarusian language.
词形变化
词源
词源 1
(cocktail): The word white refers to the milk, while Russian refers to the vodka.
词源 2
(cocktail): The word white refers to the milk, while Russian refers to the vodka.
词源 3
(cocktail): The word white refers to the milk, while Russian refers to the vodka.
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