apple of Sodom

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈæp(ə)l əv ˈsɒdəm/    美 /ˈæp(ə)l əv ˈsɑdəm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A gigantic tree supposed to have grown on the site of the destroyed cities Sodom and Gomorrah (see Genesis 18–19 in the Bible), the apples of which would turn to ash and smoke once picked.
    — We searched for the famous apple of Sodom, and found two kinds of fruit, either of which, with the help of a little poetic imagination, might pass for the fruit in question. […] The other fruit, which we observed, and which seems to me more like the apple in question, grows around Jericho. It looks very inviting, but its taste is extremely bitter and disagreeable. One of the Arabs told me it was poisonous. [François-René de] Chateaubriand, who thought this the apple of Sodom, says, "When dried it yields a blackish seed, which may be compared to ashes, and which in taste resembles bitter pepper." Whether either of these is the apple of Sodom, or whether there is any such apple, even after all that Josephus and Tacitus and others have said about it, I will not attempt to decide.
  2. The fruit of the mythical tree.
    — Men have tasted of the apples of Sodom, and they have found bitter ashes under an inviting and luscious surface.
  3. Any of various plants, often bearing bitter or poisonous fruit.
    — A particularly dangerous plant, and one that may cause confusion, is the apple of Sodom, a low, prickly bush with a tomatolike fruit that is highly poisonous.
  4. Any of various plants, often bearing bitter or poisonous fruit.; A mudar (Calotropis procera), a flowering plant, found from northern Africa to southeast Asia, which bears poisonous fruit.
  5. Any of various plants, often bearing bitter or poisonous fruit.; A bitter apple, colocynth, etc. (Citrullus colocynthis), a desert plant native to Asia and the Mediterranean Basin with extremely bitter flesh.
  6. Any of various plants, often bearing bitter or poisonous fruit.; Any of certain species of plants of the genus Solanum (nightshades).; A forest bitterberry (Solanum anguivi), a plant native to non-arid parts of Africa.
  7. Any of various plants, often bearing bitter or poisonous fruit.; Any of certain species of plants of the genus Solanum (nightshades).; A Carolina horsenettle (Solanum carolinense), a plant native to North America.
  8. Any of various plants, often bearing bitter or poisonous fruit.; Any of certain species of plants of the genus Solanum (nightshades).; A bitter apple, bitterball, or bitter tomato (Solanum incanum), a plant native to sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and India.
  9. Any of various plants, often bearing bitter or poisonous fruit.; Any of certain species of plants of the genus Solanum (nightshades).; A black spine nightshade or devil's apple (Solanum linnaeanum), a plant native to southern Africa that bears poisonous berries.
  10. Any of various plants, often bearing bitter or poisonous fruit.; Any of certain species of plants of the genus Solanum (nightshades).; A nipplefruit (Solanum mammosum), a plant native to South America.

词形变化

apples of Sodom plural

词源

apple + of + Sodom; compare the common assumption that the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden was an apple. Possibly also imitative of Hebrew תַּפּוּחַ (tapuah, “apple”) + סְדוֹם (Sdom, “Sodom”).
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