Currant

(noun.) any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams.

(noun.) small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking.

(noun.) any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants.

手打:南希

• At seven he painted the Battle of Waterloo with tiger-lily pollen and black-currant juice, in the absence of water-colours. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• On the plain household bread his eye did not dwell; but he surveyed with favour some currant tea-cakes, and condescended to make choice of one. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Do you remember the matted-up currant bushes, Margaret, at the corner of the west-wall in the garden at home? 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Fired with a housewifely wish to see her storeroom stocked with homemade preserves, she undertook to put up her own currant jelly. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Look at his eye--for all the world like a villainous sort of black currant. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Large currant buns and hot, well-sweetened tea were then administered in the proper spirit of liberality. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• This is true not only of grape juice but also of the juice of all other sweet fruits; apple juice ferments to cider, currant juice to currant wine, etc. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The common gooseberry, for instance, cannot be grafted on the currant, whereas the currant will take, though with difficulty, on the gooseberry. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• At the Rectory, when the bottle of port wine was opened after dinner, the young ladies had each a glass from a bottle of currant wine. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Wines, currants, and wrought silks, were the only goods which did not fall within this rule, having other and more advantageous allowances. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Home came four dozen delightful little pots, half a barrel of sugar, and a small boy to pick the currants for her. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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