metate

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A flat stone with a slightly concave surface, used with another stone (a mano) for grinding maize or other grains.
    — Each evening, when he returned home, he found that María he prepared some new treat, for she was a most ingenious woman, capable of transforming the poorest materials into something delicious, and he grew to love the tortillas she made so patiently, kneeling before the stone metate as she beat the boiled corn into the gray-white mixture she later baked on the flat rocks.

词形变化

metates plural

词源

Borrowed from Spanish metate, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *mətla-tl.
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