tea
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英 /tiː/|[tʰɪj ~ tʰiː]
美 /ti/|[tʰi]
英文释义
名词 n.
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The tea plant (Camellia sinensis); (countable) a variety of this plant.
— Darjeeling tea is grown in India.
- A moment, a historical unit of time from China, about the amount of time needed to quickly drink a traditional cup of tea.
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The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; (countable) a variety of such leaves.
— Go to the supermarket and buy some Darjeeling tea.
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The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water.
— Would you like some tea?
- Specifically sweet tea, an iced tea supersaturated with sugar.
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Any drink which is similar to Camellia sinensis tea in some way
— Mushroom Tea / 8 cups water / 1 cup dried reishi mushroom pieces [...] 1. Start by making Reishi Mushroom Tea: Bring water to a boil in a medium saucepan. 2. Add the reishi mushroom pieces[…]
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Any drink which is similar to Camellia sinensis tea in some way:; Any similar drink made by infusing parts of various other plants.
— camomile tea; mint tea
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Any drink which is similar to Camellia sinensis tea in some way:; Meat stock served as a hot drink.
— beef tea
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A cup of any of these drinks, often with milk, sugar, lemon, or tapioca pearls.
— We'd like one tea and one coffee, please.
- A glass of these drinks.
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A light midafternoon meal, typically but not necessarily including tea.
— I won't make it to the breakfast event, but I'll see you at the tea.
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Synonym of supper, the main evening meal, whether or not it includes tea.
— The family were sitting round the table, eating their tea.
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The break in play between the second and third sessions.
— Australia were 490 for 7 at tea on the second day.
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Synonym of marijuana.
— So they were evidence. Evidence of what? That a man occasionally smoked a stick of tea, a man who looked as if any touch of the exotic would appeal to him. On the other hand lots of tough guys smoked marijuana […].
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Information, especially gossip.
— Spill the tea on that drama, hon.
动词 v.
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To drink tea.
— We tea’d with May, and had to wait over an hour for a taxi!
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To take afternoon tea (a light meal).
— The wind was high and the hills ditto, and both being against us we were late in reaching Hitchin (30 from Cambridge), so giving up the idea of reaching Oxford we toiled on through Luton, on to Dunstable (47), where we teaed moderately […]
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To give tea to.
— And they’ve got Professor Hummums with ’em, the great Everlasting Star of the Nineteenth Century, which he has breakfasted and dined and tea’d and supped here ever since yesterday.
形容词 adj.
- Good-looking, sexy.
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Assam
Assam tea
Berinag
Berinag tea
black tea
bohea
boba
boba tea
bo lei
bubble tea
builder's tea
camomile
camomile tea
Ceylon
Ceylon tea
chai
chai tea
china
Chinese tea
congo
congou
cowslip
cowslip tea
cream tea
Darjeeling
Darjeeling tea
Devonshire tea
fruit tea
gunpowder
gunpowder tea
gumboot tea
green tea
herb tea
herbal tea
iced tea
jasmine tea
kongo
lapsang souchong
masala chai
milk tea
mint tea
Nilgiri
Nilgiri tea
oolong
oolong tea
orange pekoe
pearl tea
pekoe
pink tea
pu'er
pu-erh
red tea
rooibos tea
souchong
sun tea
sweet tea
white tea
yellow tea
衍生词
Abyssinian tea
afternoon tea
Algerian tea
all the tea in China
antitea
Appalachian tea
Arabian tea
arrowroot tea
balm tea
bed-tea
bed tea
beef tea
black tea
bloom tea
boba tea
body tea
bone apple tea
Brazilian tea
breakfast tea
brick-tea
Brigham tea
bubble tea
builders' tea
builder's tea
Bushman's tea
bush tea
butter tea
cambric tea
camomile tea
Ceylon tea
chai tea
chamomile tea
cheese tea
China tea
chocolate tea
cinder tea
clock the tea
cocoa tea
cowboy tea
cowslip tea
cream tea
cup of tea
dandelion tea
desert tea
Devonshire tea
English as afternoon tea
English breakfast tea
evening tea
fever tea
fish tea
flowering tea
fruit tea
green tea
green-tea cake
green tea cake
gumboot tea
gunpowder tea
hay tea
herbal tea
herb tea
high tea
honeybush tea
husband's tea
hybrid tea
hybrid tea rose
iced tea
ice tea
Irish breakfast tea
jasmine tea
Jesuits' tea
kitchen tea
kudzu tea
Labrador tea
lemon tea
Long Island iced tea
low tea
Malcolm X tea
malt tea
marsh Labrador tea
meat tea
Mexican tea
milk tea
mint tea
Mixue Ice Cream & Tea
Mormon tea
morning tea
mountain tea
New Jersey tea
New Zealand tea tree
oolong tea
Oswego tea
Paraguay tea
Paris tea
pearl tea
picky tea
pink tea
popcorn tea
price of tea in China
red tea
rich tea biscuit
rooibos tea
root tea
Russian tea
sage tea
severe tea
shower tea
silk-stocking milk tea
solar tea
someone's cup of tea
spill the tea
squaw tea
storm in a tea-kettle
sugar honey ice tea
sun tea
sweet tea
tadpole tea
tea and medals
tea-and-toaster
tea and toaster
tea and toast syndrome
teabacco
tea bag
tea-bag
teabag
teabagger
tea ball
teabell
teaberry
tea biscuit
teaboard
tea board
tea-board
tea boat
teaboo
teabowl
tea bowl
teabox
teaboy
tea bread
tea break
tea buffet
tea caddy
tea-caddy
tea-cake
teacake
tea candle
tea card
tea cart
teacart
tea ceremony
tea chest
tea chest bass
tea chest bassist
tea clam
tea clipper
tea cloth
teacloth
tea cosey
tea cosy
tea-cosy
tea cozy
tea-cup
tea cup
teacup
tea dance
tea-dress
tea dress
tea egg
teaette
tea fight
tea garden
teaghrelin
tea-gown
tea gown
tea-gowned
Tea Green
teahadist
teahead
tea house
teahouse
teaish
tea jenny
tea kettle
teakettle
tea-kettle
tea kitchen
tea lady
tea lead
tea leaf
tea-leaf
tea-leafing
tea leaf paradox
tea-leaved
tea-leaved willow
tea leaves
tea-length
tealess
tealight
tea light
tea-light
tealike
tealite
tea loaf
teamaker
tea maker
teamaking
tea mangrove
tea money
teamster tea
tea oil
tea oil camellia
tea oil plant
tea olive
tea pad
tea party
tea pet
tea plant
tea-pot
teapot
tea pot
tea-poy
tearoom
tea room
tea rose
tea sandwich
tea service
tea-service
tea-set
tea set
tea shades
tea shop
tea shrub
teaspoon
tea stick
tea strainer
tea table
tea-table
teatard
tea-things
teatime
tea-time
tea towel
tea-towel
teatox
tea-tray
tea tray
tea tree oil
tea trolley
tea-urn
tea urn
tea wagon
teaware
tea-water
tea-whisk
tea whisk
tea-wine
tea-wrap
tea yellows
tempest in a tea-kettle
Texas tea
theezan tea
thick tea
thunder tea rice
vampire tea bag
weak tea
West India tea
what does that have to do with the price of tea in China
white tea
without tea and biscuits
worm tea
yellow tea
词源
词源 1
First appears c. 1655, in the writings of Álvaro Semedo. From Dutch thee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”). Introduced to English and other Western European languages by the Dutch East India Company, who sourced their tea in Amoy; compare Malay teh along the same trade route. Doublet of chai and cha (and, distantly, the first element of lahpet), from same Proto-Sino-Tibetan root; see discussion of cognates.
Cognates
The word for “tea” in many languages is of Sinitic origin (due to China being the origin of the plant), and thus there are many cognates; see translations. These are from one of two proximate sources, reflected in the phonological shape: forms with a stop (e.g. /t/) are derived from Min Nan tê, while forms with an affricate (e.g. /tʃ/) are derived from other Sinitic languages, like Mandarin chá or Cantonese caa4 (all written as 茶). Different languages borrowed one or the other form (specific language and point in time varied), reflecting trade ties, generally Min Nan tê if by ocean trade from Fujian, Cantonese caa4 if by ocean trade from Guangdong, or northern Chinese chá if by overland trade or by ocean trade from India.
Thus Western and Northern European languages borrowed tê (with the exception of Portuguese, which uses chá; despite being by ocean trade, their source was in Macao, not Amoy), while chá borrowings are used over a very large geographical area of Eurasia and Africa: Southern and Eastern Europe, and on through Turkish, Arabic, North and East Africa, Persian, Central Asian, and Indic languages. In Europe the tê/chá line is Italian/Slovene, Hungarian/Romanian, German/Czech, Polish/Ukrainian, Baltics/Russian, Finnish/Karelian, Northern Sami/Inari Sami. tê was also borrowed in European trade stops in Southern India and coastal Africa, though chá borrowings are otherwise more prevalent in these regions, via Arabic or Indic, due to earlier trade. The situation in Southeast Asia is complex due to multiple influences, and some languages borrowed both forms, such as Malay teh and ca.
Etymology 1, noun sense 12 (“information, especially gossip”) may be originally from T standing for truth, which evolved into tea. An alternative explanation dates back to gay African-American culture in the 1970s and alludes to women gossiping over afternoon tea.
Cognates
The word for “tea” in many languages is of Sinitic origin (due to China being the origin of the plant), and thus there are many cognates; see translations. These are from one of two proximate sources, reflected in the phonological shape: forms with a stop (e.g. /t/) are derived from Min Nan tê, while forms with an affricate (e.g. /tʃ/) are derived from other Sinitic languages, like Mandarin chá or Cantonese caa4 (all written as 茶). Different languages borrowed one or the other form (specific language and point in time varied), reflecting trade ties, generally Min Nan tê if by ocean trade from Fujian, Cantonese caa4 if by ocean trade from Guangdong, or northern Chinese chá if by overland trade or by ocean trade from India.
Thus Western and Northern European languages borrowed tê (with the exception of Portuguese, which uses chá; despite being by ocean trade, their source was in Macao, not Amoy), while chá borrowings are used over a very large geographical area of Eurasia and Africa: Southern and Eastern Europe, and on through Turkish, Arabic, North and East Africa, Persian, Central Asian, and Indic languages. In Europe the tê/chá line is Italian/Slovene, Hungarian/Romanian, German/Czech, Polish/Ukrainian, Baltics/Russian, Finnish/Karelian, Northern Sami/Inari Sami. tê was also borrowed in European trade stops in Southern India and coastal Africa, though chá borrowings are otherwise more prevalent in these regions, via Arabic or Indic, due to earlier trade. The situation in Southeast Asia is complex due to multiple influences, and some languages borrowed both forms, such as Malay teh and ca.
Etymology 1, noun sense 12 (“information, especially gossip”) may be originally from T standing for truth, which evolved into tea. An alternative explanation dates back to gay African-American culture in the 1970s and alludes to women gossiping over afternoon tea.
词源 2
Semantic loan from Chinese 茶 (chá, “tea”).
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