| 单词 |
espresso |
| 释义 |
espresso|ɛˈsprɛsəʊ|
Also expresso.
[It. caffè espresso, lit. ‘pressed-out coffee’.]
Coffee made under steam pressure; the apparatus used for making this; a coffee-bar where it is sold. Also attrib.
1945‘A. Boucher’ in M. & G. Gordon Pride of Felons (1964) 80, I was drinking a caffé espresso, a strong, bitter, steamed coffee. 1955N.Y. Times 13 Mar. x. 11/5 Also new are the numerous small Coffee Expresso Snack Restaurants off Dublin's Grafton Street. 195520th Cent. June 549 The brittle conversation of the Espresso Cafés. 1957A. Wilson Bit off Map 137 The even more degrading swamps of espresso bar rebellion. 1957Observer 3 Nov. 18/2 The piece on lunch-time in an espresso. 1958M. Spark Robinson xii. 186 When I am walking down the King's Road or sipping my espresso in the morning. 1958Spectator 22 Aug. 248/3 And what about changes in fashionable pronunciation, from taytable to espresso usage. Ibid. 7 Nov. 611/1 It was not easy to accept a character like the expresso poet with his impeccable Oxford accent, grovelling in dirt. Ibid. 21 Nov. 700/2 The rise of the expresso with its skiffle groups. 1958Times 23 Oct. 16/1 An espresso machine. 1967‘J. Cross’ To Hell for Half-a-Crown iii. 50 The waiter came in with a pot of espresso and a bottle of fifteen-year-old Meukouw. |
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