melon

• n. 瓜；甜瓜；大肚子；圆鼓鼓像瓜似的东西
• n. (Melon)人名；(意、西、葡)梅隆

来自拉丁语melonem,来自希腊语melopepon,葫芦果，葫芦状的苹果，来自melon,苹果，词源同malic,pepon,一种葫芦，可能来自pepon,熟的，来自PIE*pekw,煮，词源同cook,dyspeptic.后用以指甜瓜，香瓜，哈蜜瓜一类的瓜果。需注意的是，melon在希腊语除了指苹果，也指其它各种各样的水果，尤其是外来品种，如peach,字面意思为波斯苹果。

melon

melon: [14] Greek mēlon actually meant ‘apple’. But combination with pépōn ‘ripe’ (a relative of English peptic [17]) produced mēlopépōn, which was used for ‘melon’. This passed into Latin as mēlopepō, but the -pepō part was subsequently dropped, giving mēlō – source, via Old French, of English melon.
=> marmalade

melon (n.)

late 14c., from Old French melon (13c.), from Medieval Latin melonem (nominative melo), from Latin melopeponem, a kind of pumpkin, from Greek melopepon "gourd-apple" (name for several kinds of gourds bearing sweet fruit), from melon "apple" (see malic) + pepon, a kind of gourd, probably noun use of pepon "ripe" (see pumpkin).

In Greek, melon was used in a generic way for all foreign fruits (compare similar use of apple). The Greek plural of "melon" was used from ancient times for "a girl's breasts."

来自柯林斯例句

2. Cut the melon into chunks.

把瓜切块。

来自柯林斯例句

3. a slice of melon

一片瓜

来自《权威词典》

4. This melon weighs more than ten jin, I should think.

这个瓜怕有十几斤吧.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5. Would you like some melon?

你要吃点瓜 吗 ?

来自《简明英汉词典》