salad: [15] Etymologically, a salad is a ‘salted’ dish. The word comes via Old French salade from Vulgar Latin *salāta, a noun use of the feminine past participle of Latin *salāre ‘put salt on to, treat with salt’. This is turn was a derivative of sāl ‘salt’, a relative of English salt. The Romans were fond of dishes of assorted raw vegetables with a dressing, and this often consisted of brine – hence the name, which is short for herba salāta ‘salted vegetables’. => salt
salad (n.)
late 14c., from Old French salade (14c.), from Vulgar Latin *salata, literally "salted," short for herba salata "salted vegetables" (vegetables seasoned with brine, a popular Roman dish), from fem. past participle of *salare "to salt," from Latin sal (genitive salis) "salt" (see salt (n.)).
Dutch salade, German Salat, Swedish salat, Russian salat are from Romanic languages. Salad days "time of youthful inexperience" (perhaps on notion of "green") is first recorded 1606 in Shakespeare and probably owes its survival, if not its existence, to him. Salad bar first attested 1940, American English.
实用例句
1. He hadn't eaten a thing except for one forkful of salad.
除了一餐叉色拉，他什么都没吃。
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2. Drizzle the remaining dressing over the duck and salad.
将剩下的调料淋在鸭肉和色拉上。
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3. Do not toss the salad until you're ready to serve.
到快上菜时再轻轻搅拌色拉。
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4. Try this tasty dish for supper with a crispy salad.
晚饭就着鲜脆的色拉尝尝这道佳肴。
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5. She picked up the bag of salad and gave it a shake.
