tangerine

英[tæn(d)ʒə'riːn] 美['tændʒə'rin]

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1. The tangerine was originally exported to Britain, in the 1840s, from the Moroccan port of Tangier（丹吉尔（摩洛哥港口城市，等于Tangiers））。

tangerine 橘子，橘黄色

来自非洲国家摩洛哥海港城市 Tangier,因这种橘子产自该地而得名。

tangerine: tangerine: [18] The tangerine was originally exported to Britain, in the 1840s, from the Moroccan port of Tangier, and so it was called the Tangerine orange (Tangerine started life as an adjective meaning ‘of Tangier’: ‘an old Tangerine captain with a wooden leg’, Joseph Addison, Tatler 1710). This was soon shortened to tangerine. It was first used as a colour term at the end of the 19th century.
tangerine (n.): 1842, from tangerine orange (1820) "an orange from Tangier," seaport in northern Morocco, from which it was imported to Britain originally. As an adjective meaning "from Tangier," attested from 1710, probably from Spanish tangerino. As a color name, attested from 1899.

2. Dan played with the tangerine peel, letting it uncoil and then coil again.: 丹摆弄着那片橘子皮，将它不停地展开来卷回去。

3. " The song. It's called Tangerine. It's about an Argentinian woman. ": “ 那首歌的名字叫坦吉林, 是关于一个阿根廷女人的. ”