cocoa

英 ['k??k??] 美['koko]

TEM4低頻詞擴展詞匯

復數:?cocoas;

1. 音譯“可可”。

cocoa 可可粉

來自南美土著語cacahuatl, 詞源同chocolate, cacao.

cocoa: cocoa: [18] Like chocolate, cocoa came to English from the Nahuatl language of the Aztec people. Their cacahuatl meant ‘beans of the cocoa tree’. Its first element was borrowed into Spanish as cacao. This was adopted by English in the 16th century, and remained the standard form until the 18th century, when it was modified to cocoa. Originally it was pronounced with three syllables (/ko-ko-a/), but confusion with the coco of coconut (which was also sometimes spelled cocoa) led to the current twosyllable pronunciation.
cocoa (n.): powder from cacao seeds, 1707, corruption (by influence of coco) of cacao. The printing of Johnson's dictionary ran together the entries for coco and cocoa, fostering a confusion that never has been undone.

2. About 70% of the cocoa acreage is treated with insecticide.: 大約70%的可可樹林地噴過殺蟲劑。

3. The Ivory Coast became the world's leading cocoa producer.: 象牙海岸成為世界上可可粉的主要產地。

4. The cocoa industry dwindled because it became increasingly difficult to cover costs.: 由于越來越難以收回成本，可可產業日漸衰落。

5. A system of forced labour was used on the cocoa plantations.: 可可種植園中曾實行強迫勞役制。