Definition of apple in English:

apple

noun ˈap(ə)lˈæpəl

1The round fruit of a tree of the rose family, which typically has thin green or red skin and crisp flesh.
苹果
Example sentencesExamples
- I stand outside the vegetable shop as Rose buys some apples, carrots and a cauliflower.
- Walk boldly to the post office to send your snail mail, munching on a daily apple as you admire green spaces along the way.
- Scoop out the cores and cut the apples across into thin half-moon slices.
- Last week the kids had made apple crisp with the apples they picked on my second day.
- It could be something specific, Victoria plum skins or green apples.
- Using a sharp knife, peel, core and slice the apples into thin wedges.
- It is inside the green cells of spinach leaves and the damp flesh of apples.
- In soft fruit such as tomato this process occurs early in ripening whereas in crisp fruits such as apple it is a late-ripening process.
- On the tree, quince starts out mimicking a green apple, but as it ripens it takes on the color and look of a lemon.
- I mean, do you think that green apples are only grown on a certain farm?
- Eighteen lumps of different cheeses littered the table amongst baskets of green and red apples and ripe pears.
- The apple cider, made exclusively with crisp, sweet winesap apples, is spicy and just winey enough.
- It could be the beautiful autumn sunshine glistening off mountains of green and red apples which has brought about this unusual state of contemplation.
- What do plastic garbage bags, human flesh, and the skins of apples all have in common?
- Cate picked a few apples from a fruit tree in the grove, wondering if they had any food to eat.
- After a rain or when they're crushed, the leaves smell like green apples.
- The trees grow fruit with appetizing flavor: blue apples, green oranges, and bananas.
- Tap on a freshly dug potato and it feels crisp, like an apple right off the tree.
- Autumn is ideal for crisp British apples to accompany a ploughman's lunch of local farmhouse cheese.
- Arrange the apples so that rounded sides are on the bottom of the pan.
1. 1.1 Used in names of unrelated fruits or other plant growths that resemble apples in some way, e.g. custard apple, oak apple.
  用于和苹果无关但在某些方面与苹果相似的水果或其他植物的名称中，如custard apple，oak apple
  Example sentencesExamples
  After a while I found that I liked to eat some custard apples better than others.
  George ran to an oak tree and picked up an oak apple.
  Montego Bay offered us some custard apples, mangoes, guineps, and naseberries.
2The tree bearing apples, with hard pale timber that is used in carpentry and to smoke food.
苹果树
Genus Malus, family Rosaceae: numerous hybrids and cultivars
Example sentencesExamples
- Fruit trees, apples, pears and plums for the most part, are weighed down with a good year's crop.
- Flowers grew all around, and I saw an apple tree and a peach tree to the side.
- A standard apple tree usually takes two years to start fruiting and four years to reach full production.
- Spring is when the apple tree blooms, and beneath it hundreds of white daffodils and tulips come into flower.
- Prune your apple tree every winter before you detect any signs of new growth.
- The whole house is covered in Virginia creeper and among the trees are an apple tree, cedar, Japanese cedar and large cypress.
- The result is an incongruous lush patchwork of fields containing tomatoes, cherries, apples and corn, all surrounded by desert.
- The young fruit of apples and grapes can also develop rough skin due to powdery mildew.
- We leave a little patch of grass around the base of the apple tree uncut each year so the colony of bluebells can flourish.
- Powdery mildew is common to many kinds of plants besides apples.
- Let me develop that illustration in a familiar way, contrasting a Christmas tree with an apple tree.
- I have three plums and three pears, and a bunch of apples from my apple tree.
- I landed in some flowers beneath an apple tree, and two apples fell on my head.
- The best pruning job I've ever seen was done by a herd of cows on a wild apple tree.
- Plant an apple tree and it will be at least a couple of years before you'll even begin to see any fruit.
- Climbing back up the hill I relished the fine display of daffodils lining the path up to the apple tree.
- Fruit trees such as apples, currants and gooseberries should do well and, to be more exotic, you could try nectarines and cherries.
- Grapes hang from a pergola, apples are espaliered and ripe berries tempt the visitor.
- From 1905 to 1918, he brought back samples of plants from apples to zoysia grass.
- Fruit trees such as apples, pears, and cherries are also important household assets.

Phrases

the apple never falls far from the tree

proverb Important family characteristics are usually inherited.
〈谚〉苹果落地，离树不远
he's a fool, Mary, as his father was—the apple never falls far from the tree
Example sentencesExamples
- It scared her when that happened, because she knew the old saying that ‘the apple never falls far from the tree.’
- Her grandfather was once a very loyal supporter of the Dark Sorcerers and I am afraid the apple never falls far from the tree.
- It is said, in our area and among our families, that the apple never falls far from the tree, and Jair inherited skill and teaching from his father, which leaves me hopeful.
- But as we all know, the apple never falls far from the tree and it wasnt long before I was back writing application software.
- She is an avid collector of proverbs from many languages, even those she does not speak, like Swedish, ‘Eplet faller inte bort från treet,’ the apple never falls far from the tree.
- Hes proof positive that the apple never falls far from the tree.
- Well, my life has been living proof that the apple never falls far from the tree.

the apple of one's eye

A person of whom one is extremely fond and proud.
热爱的人，至爱；引以为豪的人；掌上明珠；得意门生
a daughter who had ceased to be the apple of her father's eye
Example sentencesExamples
- She was the apple of my eye because she was always smiling.
- And I know that to every mummy and daddy, they are the apple of their eye, the perfect centre of their Universe.
- Ramona was the apple of his eye, no ship or captain or crew could have pulled him away from her, not even the insistent calling of the ocean herself.
- Everyone seemed to be the apple of her eye as she tripped from one festoon corner to another to relish the savoury dish.
- He adored her, she was the apple of his eye and she loved her dad.
- You are the apple of my eye - forever you'll stay in my heart!
- I can't remember my Grandfather but apparently I was the apple of his eye.
- Your child is quite rightly the apple of your eye.
- He also has a 12 year old daughter Alison, the apple of his eye.
- The eldest of these, Katie, is the apple of his eye.
Synonyms
sweetheart, loved one, love, true love, lady love, darling, dearest, dear one, lover, girlfriend, boyfriend, young lady, young man, woman friend, lady friend, man friend, beau, admirer, worshipper, inamorata, inamorato

apples and oranges

Used with reference to two things that are fundamentally different and therefore not suited to comparison.
unless you also drove a Corolla on the same roads as the A8, you're comparing apples and oranges
Example sentencesExamples
- Like apples and oranges, they are simply different.
- But publishers argue that the report mixed apples and oranges.
- It's like apples and oranges - there is no comparison.
- The second point is that in comparing the average house of today with the average house of twenty, forty or a hundred years ago, we are mixing apples and oranges.
- Some would say this is apples and oranges, that recreational golf is different to tournament golf.
- But perhaps we're comparing apples and oranges.
- But (as I noted before), we compare apples and oranges all the time!
- The problem, he says, is that you're comparing apples and oranges - empty space and fully equipped, fully staffed space.
- In your analysis, you are comparing apples and oranges.
- I mean, we are really talking apples and oranges when we compare these religions.

apples and pears

rhyming slang Stairs.
〈英，谐俚〉楼梯
he hasn't made it up those apples and pears in ten years
他有十年没上那些楼梯了。
Example sentencesExamples
- He actually said ‘I fell down the apples and pears’ in the newspaper report.
- If you would care to accompany me up the apples and pears I think I have what you are looking for.
- Id better go down the ‘apples and pears’ and put the kettle on to make some tea.
- Thus the trouble and strife would walk down the apples and pears and along the frog and toad to use the public dog and bone.
- I'll watch that one before climbing the apples and pears!
- Does the Greater London Assembly issue directives on disabled access and suggest fitting elevators to replace apples and pears?

apples to apples

often with negativeUsed with reference to a comparison regarded as valid because it concerns two things that are fundamentally the same.
there is no apples-to-apples comparison when comparing a foreign currency to USD
you want to compare us to Australia or Great Britain, like it’s apples to apples
Example sentencesExamples
- "The numbers that are out there today are not apples to apples," he says.
- By nature, the lists aren't apples to apples comparisons.
- Of course this is based on an apples to apples scenario.
- "People have to understand that this comparison is not necessarily apples to apples," he said.
- This setup should provide as close to apples to apples in terms of hardware configuration.
- Simply put, comparing our operations to commercial operations is not an apples to apples proposition.
- While we try to maintain an apples to apples test environment, we feel the different brands of comparable products should have minimal impact on the final scores.
- You're going to accept their recommendation, especially if, price-wise, we're talking roughly apples to apples.
- Unfortunately, you can't get 8 and 16 MB cache versions in the same capacities, which makes it impossible to compare apples to apples.
- This virtualization stuff is so new, so tricky and so varied that apples to apples measurements are almost impossible.

a rotten (or bad) apple

informal A bad or corrupt person in a group, especially one whose behaviour is likely to have a detrimental influence on the others.
〈非正式〉害群之马；败类
chartered accountants have no time for rotten apples in their professional barrel
looks like we hired ourselves a bad apple
Example sentencesExamples
- Still, aggressive masculine behaviour isn't the problem of a few bad apples.
- But you can't weed out the bad apples by merely having a national I.D. card.
- What he did in his speech last week was take the bad apple approach and say OK, what we're going to do is we're going to stiffen the penalties on the bad apples.
- If one restaurant is doing badly it doesn't have access to the bank accounts of the other restaurants and thus there is no way for the bad apples to drag down the barrel.
- That's all I'm saying, is we have to start blaming the barrel and not simply saying there are a few bad apples who corrupted the barrel.
- A few more bad apples will be identified, they'll be suspended with pay and the allegations against them will be disposed of in some way or another.
- Some reports list the officers and agencies responsible by name, but they are likely never to be considered bad apples, but only the custodians of a barrel that had some defects.
- We're human and out of any group of people there are bad apples.
- It is far more realistic to turn your complaining inward, and pressure the bad apples in your group to stop pulling down the average.
- In reply he got the by now standard answer that there are crooks in all professions and the few bad apples must not be allowed to contaminate the image of the entire barrel.

she's apples

informal Used to indicate that everything is in good order and there is nothing to worry about.
〈澳，非正式〉一切都好，不必担心
‘Is the fire safe?’ ‘Yeah, she's apples.’
“这炉火安全吗？”“没问题，别担心。”
Example sentencesExamples
- I've now configured my MTA to add a message ID if it's missing and she's apples.
- Brakes will need adjusting if the bike shop hasn't put the washers in for the adjusters, all you need is some lock tight and she's apples.
- Just give the cooler a light rough up with a wire brush or green scotch pad and then wipe with prepsol, paint with heatproof and she's apples.
- Yes, I turn the TV down 35% and she's apples.

upset the apple cart

Spoil a plan or disturb the status quo.
打乱计划，把事情搞砸
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘I think it would be a shame to upset the apple cart,’ she added.
- Once upon a time, books were meant to upset the apple cart, to make politicians nervous, threaten the status quo, shake up our expectations, make us question things anew.
- And there's another reason people don't want to upset the apple cart.
- Every one of the players currently in the Celtic squad are imbued with that ethic, and while a deluge of imports may lift morale, the drip-drip effect is less likely to upset the apple cart.
- They were breaking with the status quo, upsetting the apple cart, taking part in a 60s style rebellion against the establishment.
- It is so lucrative for investment bankers, fund managers and brokers that none have any interest in upsetting the apple cart.
- Science is upsetting the apple cart, challenging long held notions related to life span and personality, undermining our cherished, traditional thoughts about ourselves.
- Land speculators and developers are the biggest donors to civic election campaigns, he explained, so he doubts many city councillors or prospective mayors will want to upset the apple cart between now and October.
- She is one of the most thoughtful judges on the court and is not afraid to upset the apple cart by doing the right thing.
- And, because I'm a contrarian at heart, I'll root for perverse storylines that will upset the apple cart and disturb the powers that be.
Synonyms
foil, frustrate, baulk, stand in the way of, forestall

Origin

Old English æppel, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch appel and German Apfel.

Originally the Old English word apple could be used to describe any fruit. The forbidden fruit eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is generally thought of as an apple, and pictured as such, but the 1611 King James Version of the Bible simply calls it a fruit. The apple is the predominant fruit of northern Europe, and many common phrases involve it. A rotten apple (or a bad apple) is someone who is a bad influence on the rest of a group, from the idea of a rotten apple spoiling other fruit. The idea can be traced back at least as far as the days of the early printer William Caxton in the 15th century. The apple of your eye was once a term for the pupil, which people used to think of as a solid ball. They later applied the expression to anything considered to be similarly delicate and precious. The proverb an apple a day keeps the doctor away dates from the 19th century, as does the alternative form ‘eat an apple on going to bed, and you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread’. The Australian expression it's (or she's) apples means ‘everything is fine, there is nothing to worry about’. This derives from apples and rice (or apples and spice), rhyming slang for ‘nice’. Another example of rhyming slang is apples and pears for ‘stairs’. The city of New York has been known as the Big Apple since the 1920s, possibly from the idea that there are many apples on the tree but New York is the biggest. Applet [1990s] is an unconnected word, being computer jargon formed from ‘application’ and the ending for ‘little’ -let.

Rhymes

chapel, chappal, Chappell, dapple, grapple, scrapple

Definition of apple in US English:

apple

nounˈæpəlˈapəl

1The round fruit of a tree of the rose family, which typically has thin red or green skin and crisp flesh. Many varieties have been developed as dessert or cooking fruit or for making cider.
苹果
Example sentencesExamples
- Tap on a freshly dug potato and it feels crisp, like an apple right off the tree.
- It is inside the green cells of spinach leaves and the damp flesh of apples.
- Walk boldly to the post office to send your snail mail, munching on a daily apple as you admire green spaces along the way.
- Eighteen lumps of different cheeses littered the table amongst baskets of green and red apples and ripe pears.
- Using a sharp knife, peel, core and slice the apples into thin wedges.
- Scoop out the cores and cut the apples across into thin half-moon slices.
- I stand outside the vegetable shop as Rose buys some apples, carrots and a cauliflower.
- Autumn is ideal for crisp British apples to accompany a ploughman's lunch of local farmhouse cheese.
- In soft fruit such as tomato this process occurs early in ripening whereas in crisp fruits such as apple it is a late-ripening process.
- After a rain or when they're crushed, the leaves smell like green apples.
- Arrange the apples so that rounded sides are on the bottom of the pan.
- It could be the beautiful autumn sunshine glistening off mountains of green and red apples which has brought about this unusual state of contemplation.
- Cate picked a few apples from a fruit tree in the grove, wondering if they had any food to eat.
- The trees grow fruit with appetizing flavor: blue apples, green oranges, and bananas.
- Last week the kids had made apple crisp with the apples they picked on my second day.
- I mean, do you think that green apples are only grown on a certain farm?
- It could be something specific, Victoria plum skins or green apples.
- On the tree, quince starts out mimicking a green apple, but as it ripens it takes on the color and look of a lemon.
- What do plastic garbage bags, human flesh, and the skins of apples all have in common?
- The apple cider, made exclusively with crisp, sweet winesap apples, is spicy and just winey enough.
1. 1.1 An unrelated fruit that resembles an apple in some way.
  See also custard apple, thorn apple
  Example sentencesExamples
  After a while I found that I liked to eat some custard apples better than others.
  Montego Bay offered us some custard apples, mangoes, guineps, and naseberries.
  George ran to an oak tree and picked up an oak apple.
2The tree which bears apples.
Genus Malus, family Rosaceae: numerous hybrids and cultivars
Example sentencesExamples
- Fruit trees such as apples, currants and gooseberries should do well and, to be more exotic, you could try nectarines and cherries.
- We leave a little patch of grass around the base of the apple tree uncut each year so the colony of bluebells can flourish.
- The whole house is covered in Virginia creeper and among the trees are an apple tree, cedar, Japanese cedar and large cypress.
- Powdery mildew is common to many kinds of plants besides apples.
- Fruit trees, apples, pears and plums for the most part, are weighed down with a good year's crop.
- Let me develop that illustration in a familiar way, contrasting a Christmas tree with an apple tree.
- The young fruit of apples and grapes can also develop rough skin due to powdery mildew.
- Flowers grew all around, and I saw an apple tree and a peach tree to the side.
- Spring is when the apple tree blooms, and beneath it hundreds of white daffodils and tulips come into flower.
- The result is an incongruous lush patchwork of fields containing tomatoes, cherries, apples and corn, all surrounded by desert.
- Grapes hang from a pergola, apples are espaliered and ripe berries tempt the visitor.
- A standard apple tree usually takes two years to start fruiting and four years to reach full production.
- I have three plums and three pears, and a bunch of apples from my apple tree.
- The best pruning job I've ever seen was done by a herd of cows on a wild apple tree.
- From 1905 to 1918, he brought back samples of plants from apples to zoysia grass.
- I landed in some flowers beneath an apple tree, and two apples fell on my head.
- Climbing back up the hill I relished the fine display of daffodils lining the path up to the apple tree.
- Plant an apple tree and it will be at least a couple of years before you'll even begin to see any fruit.
- Fruit trees such as apples, pears, and cherries are also important household assets.
- Prune your apple tree every winter before you detect any signs of new growth.
3the Apple
short for Big Apple
Example sentencesExamples
- Five Points, where the action takes place, looks alien to anything currently considered Big in the Apple.
- He discouraged people from pulling up stakes and moving to the Apple, saying, "Rents are bad enough as it is."

Phrases

the apple never falls far from the tree

proverb Family characteristics are usually inherited.
〈谚〉苹果落地，离树不远
Example sentencesExamples
- It scared her when that happened, because she knew the old saying that ‘the apple never falls far from the tree.’
- It is said, in our area and among our families, that the apple never falls far from the tree, and Jair inherited skill and teaching from his father, which leaves me hopeful.
- Her grandfather was once a very loyal supporter of the Dark Sorcerers and I am afraid the apple never falls far from the tree.
- Hes proof positive that the apple never falls far from the tree.
- But as we all know, the apple never falls far from the tree and it wasnt long before I was back writing application software.
- She is an avid collector of proverbs from many languages, even those she does not speak, like Swedish, ‘Eplet faller inte bort från treet,’ the apple never falls far from the tree.
- Well, my life has been living proof that the apple never falls far from the tree.

the apple of one's eye

A person of whom one is extremely fond and proud.
热爱的人，至爱；引以为豪的人；掌上明珠；得意门生
Example sentencesExamples
- Ramona was the apple of his eye, no ship or captain or crew could have pulled him away from her, not even the insistent calling of the ocean herself.
- She was the apple of my eye because she was always smiling.
- The eldest of these, Katie, is the apple of his eye.
- Your child is quite rightly the apple of your eye.
- You are the apple of my eye - forever you'll stay in my heart!
- Everyone seemed to be the apple of her eye as she tripped from one festoon corner to another to relish the savoury dish.
- I can't remember my Grandfather but apparently I was the apple of his eye.
- He also has a 12 year old daughter Alison, the apple of his eye.
- And I know that to every mummy and daddy, they are the apple of their eye, the perfect centre of their Universe.
- He adored her, she was the apple of his eye and she loved her dad.
Synonyms
sweetheart, loved one, love, true love, lady love, darling, dearest, dear one, lover, girlfriend, boyfriend, young lady, young man, woman friend, lady friend, man friend, beau, admirer, worshipper, inamorata, inamorato

apples and oranges

Used with reference to two things that are fundamentally different and therefore not suited to comparison.
unless you also drove a Corolla on the same roads as the A8, you're comparing apples and oranges
Example sentencesExamples
- The second point is that in comparing the average house of today with the average house of twenty, forty or a hundred years ago, we are mixing apples and oranges.
- In your analysis, you are comparing apples and oranges.
- It's like apples and oranges - there is no comparison.
- Like apples and oranges, they are simply different.
- But publishers argue that the report mixed apples and oranges.
- But (as I noted before), we compare apples and oranges all the time!
- Some would say this is apples and oranges, that recreational golf is different to tournament golf.
- I mean, we are really talking apples and oranges when we compare these religions.
- But perhaps we're comparing apples and oranges.
- The problem, he says, is that you're comparing apples and oranges - empty space and fully equipped, fully staffed space.

apples to apples

often with negativeUsed with reference to a comparison regarded as valid because it concerns two things that are fundamentally the same.
there is no apples-to-apples comparison when comparing a foreign currency to USD
you want to compare us to Australia or Great Britain, like it’s apples to apples
Example sentencesExamples
- Simply put, comparing our operations to commercial operations is not an apples to apples proposition.
- This virtualization stuff is so new, so tricky and so varied that apples to apples measurements are almost impossible.
- By nature, the lists aren't apples to apples comparisons.
- "The numbers that are out there today are not apples to apples," he says.
- Of course this is based on an apples to apples scenario.
- While we try to maintain an apples to apples test environment, we feel the different brands of comparable products should have minimal impact on the final scores.
- Unfortunately, you can't get 8 and 16 MB cache versions in the same capacities, which makes it impossible to compare apples to apples.
- You're going to accept their recommendation, especially if, price-wise, we're talking roughly apples to apples.
- This setup should provide as close to apples to apples in terms of hardware configuration.
- "People have to understand that this comparison is not necessarily apples to apples," he said.

a rotten (or bad) apple

informal A bad or corrupt person in a group, typically one whose behavior is likely to have a detrimental influence on his or her associates.
〈非正式〉害群之马；败类
Example sentencesExamples
- We're human and out of any group of people there are bad apples.
- It is far more realistic to turn your complaining inward, and pressure the bad apples in your group to stop pulling down the average.
- If one restaurant is doing badly it doesn't have access to the bank accounts of the other restaurants and thus there is no way for the bad apples to drag down the barrel.
- In reply he got the by now standard answer that there are crooks in all professions and the few bad apples must not be allowed to contaminate the image of the entire barrel.
- But you can't weed out the bad apples by merely having a national I.D. card.
- Some reports list the officers and agencies responsible by name, but they are likely never to be considered bad apples, but only the custodians of a barrel that had some defects.
- What he did in his speech last week was take the bad apple approach and say OK, what we're going to do is we're going to stiffen the penalties on the bad apples.
- That's all I'm saying, is we have to start blaming the barrel and not simply saying there are a few bad apples who corrupted the barrel.
- A few more bad apples will be identified, they'll be suspended with pay and the allegations against them will be disposed of in some way or another.
- Still, aggressive masculine behaviour isn't the problem of a few bad apples.

upset the applecart

Spoil a plan or disturb the status quo.
打乱计划，把事情搞砸
Example sentencesExamples
- And, because I'm a contrarian at heart, I'll root for perverse storylines that will upset the apple cart and disturb the powers that be.
- ‘I think it would be a shame to upset the apple cart,’ she added.
- Once upon a time, books were meant to upset the apple cart, to make politicians nervous, threaten the status quo, shake up our expectations, make us question things anew.
- She is one of the most thoughtful judges on the court and is not afraid to upset the apple cart by doing the right thing.
- It is so lucrative for investment bankers, fund managers and brokers that none have any interest in upsetting the apple cart.
- They were breaking with the status quo, upsetting the apple cart, taking part in a 60s style rebellion against the establishment.
- Land speculators and developers are the biggest donors to civic election campaigns, he explained, so he doubts many city councillors or prospective mayors will want to upset the apple cart between now and October.
- Science is upsetting the apple cart, challenging long held notions related to life span and personality, undermining our cherished, traditional thoughts about ourselves.
- And there's another reason people don't want to upset the apple cart.
- Every one of the players currently in the Celtic squad are imbued with that ethic, and while a deluge of imports may lift morale, the drip-drip effect is less likely to upset the apple cart.
Synonyms
foil, frustrate, baulk, stand in the way of, forestall

Origin

Old English æppel, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch appel and German Apfel.

词汇	apple
释义	Definition of apple in English: apple noun ˈap(ə)lˈæpəl 1The round fruit of a tree of the rose family, which typically has thin green or red skin and crisp flesh. 苹果 Example sentencesExamples I stand outside the vegetable shop as Rose buys some apples, carrots and a cauliflower. Walk boldly to the post office to send your snail mail, munching on a daily apple as you admire green spaces along the way. Scoop out the cores and cut the apples across into thin half-moon slices. Last week the kids had made apple crisp with the apples they picked on my second day. It could be something specific, Victoria plum skins or green apples. Using a sharp knife, peel, core and slice the apples into thin wedges. It is inside the green cells of spinach leaves and the damp flesh of apples. In soft fruit such as tomato this process occurs early in ripening whereas in crisp fruits such as apple it is a late-ripening process. On the tree, quince starts out mimicking a green apple, but as it ripens it takes on the color and look of a lemon. I mean, do you think that green apples are only grown on a certain farm? Eighteen lumps of different cheeses littered the table amongst baskets of green and red apples and ripe pears. The apple cider, made exclusively with crisp, sweet winesap apples, is spicy and just winey enough. It could be the beautiful autumn sunshine glistening off mountains of green and red apples which has brought about this unusual state of contemplation. What do plastic garbage bags, human flesh, and the skins of apples all have in common? Cate picked a few apples from a fruit tree in the grove, wondering if they had any food to eat. After a rain or when they're crushed, the leaves smell like green apples. The trees grow fruit with appetizing flavor: blue apples, green oranges, and bananas. Tap on a freshly dug potato and it feels crisp, like an apple right off the tree. Autumn is ideal for crisp British apples to accompany a ploughman's lunch of local farmhouse cheese. Arrange the apples so that rounded sides are on the bottom of the pan. 1.1 Used in names of unrelated fruits or other plant growths that resemble apples in some way, e.g. custard apple, oak apple. 用于和苹果无关但在某些方面与苹果相似的水果或其他植物的名称中，如custard apple，oak apple Example sentencesExamples After a while I found that I liked to eat some custard apples better than others. George ran to an oak tree and picked up an oak apple. Montego Bay offered us some custard apples, mangoes, guineps, and naseberries. 2The tree bearing apples, with hard pale timber that is used in carpentry and to smoke food. 苹果树 Genus Malus, family Rosaceae: numerous hybrids and cultivars Example sentencesExamples Fruit trees, apples, pears and plums for the most part, are weighed down with a good year's crop. Flowers grew all around, and I saw an apple tree and a peach tree to the side. A standard apple tree usually takes two years to start fruiting and four years to reach full production. Spring is when the apple tree blooms, and beneath it hundreds of white daffodils and tulips come into flower. Prune your apple tree every winter before you detect any signs of new growth. The whole house is covered in Virginia creeper and among the trees are an apple tree, cedar, Japanese cedar and large cypress. The result is an incongruous lush patchwork of fields containing tomatoes, cherries, apples and corn, all surrounded by desert. The young fruit of apples and grapes can also develop rough skin due to powdery mildew. We leave a little patch of grass around the base of the apple tree uncut each year so the colony of bluebells can flourish. Powdery mildew is common to many kinds of plants besides apples. Let me develop that illustration in a familiar way, contrasting a Christmas tree with an apple tree. I have three plums and three pears, and a bunch of apples from my apple tree. I landed in some flowers beneath an apple tree, and two apples fell on my head. The best pruning job I've ever seen was done by a herd of cows on a wild apple tree. Plant an apple tree and it will be at least a couple of years before you'll even begin to see any fruit. Climbing back up the hill I relished the fine display of daffodils lining the path up to the apple tree. Fruit trees such as apples, currants and gooseberries should do well and, to be more exotic, you could try nectarines and cherries. Grapes hang from a pergola, apples are espaliered and ripe berries tempt the visitor. From 1905 to 1918, he brought back samples of plants from apples to zoysia grass. Fruit trees such as apples, pears, and cherries are also important household assets. Phrases the apple never falls far from the tree proverb Important family characteristics are usually inherited. 〈谚〉苹果落地，离树不远 he's a fool, Mary, as his father was—the apple never falls far from the tree Example sentencesExamples It scared her when that happened, because she knew the old saying that ‘the apple never falls far from the tree.’ Her grandfather was once a very loyal supporter of the Dark Sorcerers and I am afraid the apple never falls far from the tree. It is said, in our area and among our families, that the apple never falls far from the tree, and Jair inherited skill and teaching from his father, which leaves me hopeful. But as we all know, the apple never falls far from the tree and it wasnt long before I was back writing application software. She is an avid collector of proverbs from many languages, even those she does not speak, like Swedish, ‘Eplet faller inte bort från treet,’ the apple never falls far from the tree. Hes proof positive that the apple never falls far from the tree. Well, my life has been living proof that the apple never falls far from the tree. the apple of one's eye A person of whom one is extremely fond and proud. 热爱的人，至爱；引以为豪的人；掌上明珠；得意门生 a daughter who had ceased to be the apple of her father's eye Example sentencesExamples She was the apple of my eye because she was always smiling. And I know that to every mummy and daddy, they are the apple of their eye, the perfect centre of their Universe. Ramona was the apple of his eye, no ship or captain or crew could have pulled him away from her, not even the insistent calling of the ocean herself. Everyone seemed to be the apple of her eye as she tripped from one festoon corner to another to relish the savoury dish. He adored her, she was the apple of his eye and she loved her dad. You are the apple of my eye - forever you'll stay in my heart! I can't remember my Grandfather but apparently I was the apple of his eye. Your child is quite rightly the apple of your eye. He also has a 12 year old daughter Alison, the apple of his eye. The eldest of these, Katie, is the apple of his eye. Synonyms sweetheart, loved one, love, true love, lady love, darling, dearest, dear one, lover, girlfriend, boyfriend, young lady, young man, woman friend, lady friend, man friend, beau, admirer, worshipper, inamorata, inamorato apples and oranges Used with reference to two things that are fundamentally different and therefore not suited to comparison. unless you also drove a Corolla on the same roads as the A8, you're comparing apples and oranges Example sentencesExamples Like apples and oranges, they are simply different. But publishers argue that the report mixed apples and oranges. It's like apples and oranges - there is no comparison. The second point is that in comparing the average house of today with the average house of twenty, forty or a hundred years ago, we are mixing apples and oranges. Some would say this is apples and oranges, that recreational golf is different to tournament golf. But perhaps we're comparing apples and oranges. But (as I noted before), we compare apples and oranges all the time! The problem, he says, is that you're comparing apples and oranges - empty space and fully equipped, fully staffed space. In your analysis, you are comparing apples and oranges. I mean, we are really talking apples and oranges when we compare these religions. apples and pears rhyming slang Stairs. 〈英，谐俚〉楼梯 he hasn't made it up those apples and pears in ten years 他有十年没上那些楼梯了。 Example sentencesExamples He actually said ‘I fell down the apples and pears’ in the newspaper report. If you would care to accompany me up the apples and pears I think I have what you are looking for. Id better go down the ‘apples and pears’ and put the kettle on to make some tea. Thus the trouble and strife would walk down the apples and pears and along the frog and toad to use the public dog and bone. I'll watch that one before climbing the apples and pears! Does the Greater London Assembly issue directives on disabled access and suggest fitting elevators to replace apples and pears? apples to apples often with negativeUsed with reference to a comparison regarded as valid because it concerns two things that are fundamentally the same. there is no apples-to-apples comparison when comparing a foreign currency to USD you want to compare us to Australia or Great Britain, like it’s apples to apples Example sentencesExamples "The numbers that are out there today are not apples to apples," he says. By nature, the lists aren't apples to apples comparisons. Of course this is based on an apples to apples scenario. "People have to understand that this comparison is not necessarily apples to apples," he said. This setup should provide as close to apples to apples in terms of hardware configuration. Simply put, comparing our operations to commercial operations is not an apples to apples proposition. While we try to maintain an apples to apples test environment, we feel the different brands of comparable products should have minimal impact on the final scores. You're going to accept their recommendation, especially if, price-wise, we're talking roughly apples to apples. Unfortunately, you can't get 8 and 16 MB cache versions in the same capacities, which makes it impossible to compare apples to apples. This virtualization stuff is so new, so tricky and so varied that apples to apples measurements are almost impossible. a rotten (or bad) apple informal A bad or corrupt person in a group, especially one whose behaviour is likely to have a detrimental influence on the others. 〈非正式〉害群之马；败类 chartered accountants have no time for rotten apples in their professional barrel looks like we hired ourselves a bad apple Example sentencesExamples Still, aggressive masculine behaviour isn't the problem of a few bad apples. But you can't weed out the bad apples by merely having a national I.D. card. What he did in his speech last week was take the bad apple approach and say OK, what we're going to do is we're going to stiffen the penalties on the bad apples. If one restaurant is doing badly it doesn't have access to the bank accounts of the other restaurants and thus there is no way for the bad apples to drag down the barrel. That's all I'm saying, is we have to start blaming the barrel and not simply saying there are a few bad apples who corrupted the barrel. A few more bad apples will be identified, they'll be suspended with pay and the allegations against them will be disposed of in some way or another. Some reports list the officers and agencies responsible by name, but they are likely never to be considered bad apples, but only the custodians of a barrel that had some defects. We're human and out of any group of people there are bad apples. It is far more realistic to turn your complaining inward, and pressure the bad apples in your group to stop pulling down the average. In reply he got the by now standard answer that there are crooks in all professions and the few bad apples must not be allowed to contaminate the image of the entire barrel. she's apples informal Used to indicate that everything is in good order and there is nothing to worry about. 〈澳，非正式〉一切都好，不必担心 ‘Is the fire safe?’ ‘Yeah, she's apples.’ “这炉火安全吗？”“没问题，别担心。” Example sentencesExamples I've now configured my MTA to add a message ID if it's missing and she's apples. Brakes will need adjusting if the bike shop hasn't put the washers in for the adjusters, all you need is some lock tight and she's apples. Just give the cooler a light rough up with a wire brush or green scotch pad and then wipe with prepsol, paint with heatproof and she's apples. Yes, I turn the TV down 35% and she's apples. upset the apple cart Spoil a plan or disturb the status quo. 打乱计划，把事情搞砸 Example sentencesExamples ‘I think it would be a shame to upset the apple cart,’ she added. Once upon a time, books were meant to upset the apple cart, to make politicians nervous, threaten the status quo, shake up our expectations, make us question things anew. And there's another reason people don't want to upset the apple cart. Every one of the players currently in the Celtic squad are imbued with that ethic, and while a deluge of imports may lift morale, the drip-drip effect is less likely to upset the apple cart. They were breaking with the status quo, upsetting the apple cart, taking part in a 60s style rebellion against the establishment. It is so lucrative for investment bankers, fund managers and brokers that none have any interest in upsetting the apple cart. Science is upsetting the apple cart, challenging long held notions related to life span and personality, undermining our cherished, traditional thoughts about ourselves. Land speculators and developers are the biggest donors to civic election campaigns, he explained, so he doubts many city councillors or prospective mayors will want to upset the apple cart between now and October. She is one of the most thoughtful judges on the court and is not afraid to upset the apple cart by doing the right thing. And, because I'm a contrarian at heart, I'll root for perverse storylines that will upset the apple cart and disturb the powers that be. Synonyms foil, frustrate, baulk, stand in the way of, forestall Origin Old English æppel, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch appel and German Apfel. Originally the Old English word apple could be used to describe any fruit. The forbidden fruit eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is generally thought of as an apple, and pictured as such, but the 1611 King James Version of the Bible simply calls it a fruit. The apple is the predominant fruit of northern Europe, and many common phrases involve it. A rotten apple (or a bad apple) is someone who is a bad influence on the rest of a group, from the idea of a rotten apple spoiling other fruit. The idea can be traced back at least as far as the days of the early printer William Caxton in the 15th century. The apple of your eye was once a term for the pupil, which people used to think of as a solid ball. They later applied the expression to anything considered to be similarly delicate and precious. The proverb an apple a day keeps the doctor away dates from the 19th century, as does the alternative form ‘eat an apple on going to bed, and you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread’. The Australian expression it's (or she's) apples means ‘everything is fine, there is nothing to worry about’. This derives from apples and rice (or apples and spice), rhyming slang for ‘nice’. Another example of rhyming slang is apples and pears for ‘stairs’. The city of New York has been known as the Big Apple since the 1920s, possibly from the idea that there are many apples on the tree but New York is the biggest. Applet [1990s] is an unconnected word, being computer jargon formed from ‘application’ and the ending for ‘little’ -let. Rhymes chapel, chappal, Chappell, dapple, grapple, scrapple noun.1 phr. Definition of apple in US English: apple nounˈæpəlˈapəl 1The round fruit of a tree of the rose family, which typically has thin red or green skin and crisp flesh. Many varieties have been developed as dessert or cooking fruit or for making cider. 苹果 Example sentencesExamples Tap on a freshly dug potato and it feels crisp, like an apple right off the tree. It is inside the green cells of spinach leaves and the damp flesh of apples. Walk boldly to the post office to send your snail mail, munching on a daily apple as you admire green spaces along the way. Eighteen lumps of different cheeses littered the table amongst baskets of green and red apples and ripe pears. Using a sharp knife, peel, core and slice the apples into thin wedges. Scoop out the cores and cut the apples across into thin half-moon slices. I stand outside the vegetable shop as Rose buys some apples, carrots and a cauliflower. Autumn is ideal for crisp British apples to accompany a ploughman's lunch of local farmhouse cheese. In soft fruit such as tomato this process occurs early in ripening whereas in crisp fruits such as apple it is a late-ripening process. After a rain or when they're crushed, the leaves smell like green apples. Arrange the apples so that rounded sides are on the bottom of the pan. It could be the beautiful autumn sunshine glistening off mountains of green and red apples which has brought about this unusual state of contemplation. Cate picked a few apples from a fruit tree in the grove, wondering if they had any food to eat. The trees grow fruit with appetizing flavor: blue apples, green oranges, and bananas. Last week the kids had made apple crisp with the apples they picked on my second day. I mean, do you think that green apples are only grown on a certain farm? It could be something specific, Victoria plum skins or green apples. On the tree, quince starts out mimicking a green apple, but as it ripens it takes on the color and look of a lemon. What do plastic garbage bags, human flesh, and the skins of apples all have in common? The apple cider, made exclusively with crisp, sweet winesap apples, is spicy and just winey enough. 1.1 An unrelated fruit that resembles an apple in some way. See also custard apple, thorn apple Example sentencesExamples After a while I found that I liked to eat some custard apples better than others. Montego Bay offered us some custard apples, mangoes, guineps, and naseberries. George ran to an oak tree and picked up an oak apple. 2The tree which bears apples. Genus Malus, family Rosaceae: numerous hybrids and cultivars Example sentencesExamples Fruit trees such as apples, currants and gooseberries should do well and, to be more exotic, you could try nectarines and cherries. We leave a little patch of grass around the base of the apple tree uncut each year so the colony of bluebells can flourish. The whole house is covered in Virginia creeper and among the trees are an apple tree, cedar, Japanese cedar and large cypress. Powdery mildew is common to many kinds of plants besides apples. Fruit trees, apples, pears and plums for the most part, are weighed down with a good year's crop. Let me develop that illustration in a familiar way, contrasting a Christmas tree with an apple tree. The young fruit of apples and grapes can also develop rough skin due to powdery mildew. Flowers grew all around, and I saw an apple tree and a peach tree to the side. Spring is when the apple tree blooms, and beneath it hundreds of white daffodils and tulips come into flower. The result is an incongruous lush patchwork of fields containing tomatoes, cherries, apples and corn, all surrounded by desert. Grapes hang from a pergola, apples are espaliered and ripe berries tempt the visitor. A standard apple tree usually takes two years to start fruiting and four years to reach full production. I have three plums and three pears, and a bunch of apples from my apple tree. The best pruning job I've ever seen was done by a herd of cows on a wild apple tree. From 1905 to 1918, he brought back samples of plants from apples to zoysia grass. I landed in some flowers beneath an apple tree, and two apples fell on my head. Climbing back up the hill I relished the fine display of daffodils lining the path up to the apple tree. Plant an apple tree and it will be at least a couple of years before you'll even begin to see any fruit. Fruit trees such as apples, pears, and cherries are also important household assets. Prune your apple tree every winter before you detect any signs of new growth. 3the Apple short for Big Apple Example sentencesExamples Five Points, where the action takes place, looks alien to anything currently considered Big in the Apple. He discouraged people from pulling up stakes and moving to the Apple, saying, "Rents are bad enough as it is." Phrases the apple never falls far from the tree proverb Family characteristics are usually inherited. 〈谚〉苹果落地，离树不远 Example sentencesExamples It scared her when that happened, because she knew the old saying that ‘the apple never falls far from the tree.’ It is said, in our area and among our families, that the apple never falls far from the tree, and Jair inherited skill and teaching from his father, which leaves me hopeful. Her grandfather was once a very loyal supporter of the Dark Sorcerers and I am afraid the apple never falls far from the tree. Hes proof positive that the apple never falls far from the tree. But as we all know, the apple never falls far from the tree and it wasnt long before I was back writing application software. She is an avid collector of proverbs from many languages, even those she does not speak, like Swedish, ‘Eplet faller inte bort från treet,’ the apple never falls far from the tree. Well, my life has been living proof that the apple never falls far from the tree. the apple of one's eye A person of whom one is extremely fond and proud. 热爱的人，至爱；引以为豪的人；掌上明珠；得意门生 Example sentencesExamples Ramona was the apple of his eye, no ship or captain or crew could have pulled him away from her, not even the insistent calling of the ocean herself. She was the apple of my eye because she was always smiling. The eldest of these, Katie, is the apple of his eye. Your child is quite rightly the apple of your eye. You are the apple of my eye - forever you'll stay in my heart! Everyone seemed to be the apple of her eye as she tripped from one festoon corner to another to relish the savoury dish. I can't remember my Grandfather but apparently I was the apple of his eye. He also has a 12 year old daughter Alison, the apple of his eye. And I know that to every mummy and daddy, they are the apple of their eye, the perfect centre of their Universe. He adored her, she was the apple of his eye and she loved her dad. Synonyms sweetheart, loved one, love, true love, lady love, darling, dearest, dear one, lover, girlfriend, boyfriend, young lady, young man, woman friend, lady friend, man friend, beau, admirer, worshipper, inamorata, inamorato apples and oranges Used with reference to two things that are fundamentally different and therefore not suited to comparison. unless you also drove a Corolla on the same roads as the A8, you're comparing apples and oranges Example sentencesExamples The second point is that in comparing the average house of today with the average house of twenty, forty or a hundred years ago, we are mixing apples and oranges. In your analysis, you are comparing apples and oranges. It's like apples and oranges - there is no comparison. Like apples and oranges, they are simply different. But publishers argue that the report mixed apples and oranges. But (as I noted before), we compare apples and oranges all the time! Some would say this is apples and oranges, that recreational golf is different to tournament golf. I mean, we are really talking apples and oranges when we compare these religions. But perhaps we're comparing apples and oranges. The problem, he says, is that you're comparing apples and oranges - empty space and fully equipped, fully staffed space. apples to apples often with negativeUsed with reference to a comparison regarded as valid because it concerns two things that are fundamentally the same. there is no apples-to-apples comparison when comparing a foreign currency to USD you want to compare us to Australia or Great Britain, like it’s apples to apples Example sentencesExamples Simply put, comparing our operations to commercial operations is not an apples to apples proposition. This virtualization stuff is so new, so tricky and so varied that apples to apples measurements are almost impossible. By nature, the lists aren't apples to apples comparisons. "The numbers that are out there today are not apples to apples," he says. Of course this is based on an apples to apples scenario. While we try to maintain an apples to apples test environment, we feel the different brands of comparable products should have minimal impact on the final scores. Unfortunately, you can't get 8 and 16 MB cache versions in the same capacities, which makes it impossible to compare apples to apples. You're going to accept their recommendation, especially if, price-wise, we're talking roughly apples to apples. This setup should provide as close to apples to apples in terms of hardware configuration. "People have to understand that this comparison is not necessarily apples to apples," he said. a rotten (or bad) apple informal A bad or corrupt person in a group, typically one whose behavior is likely to have a detrimental influence on his or her associates. 〈非正式〉害群之马；败类 Example sentencesExamples We're human and out of any group of people there are bad apples. It is far more realistic to turn your complaining inward, and pressure the bad apples in your group to stop pulling down the average. If one restaurant is doing badly it doesn't have access to the bank accounts of the other restaurants and thus there is no way for the bad apples to drag down the barrel. In reply he got the by now standard answer that there are crooks in all professions and the few bad apples must not be allowed to contaminate the image of the entire barrel. But you can't weed out the bad apples by merely having a national I.D. card. Some reports list the officers and agencies responsible by name, but they are likely never to be considered bad apples, but only the custodians of a barrel that had some defects. What he did in his speech last week was take the bad apple approach and say OK, what we're going to do is we're going to stiffen the penalties on the bad apples. That's all I'm saying, is we have to start blaming the barrel and not simply saying there are a few bad apples who corrupted the barrel. A few more bad apples will be identified, they'll be suspended with pay and the allegations against them will be disposed of in some way or another. Still, aggressive masculine behaviour isn't the problem of a few bad apples. upset the applecart Spoil a plan or disturb the status quo. 打乱计划，把事情搞砸 Example sentencesExamples And, because I'm a contrarian at heart, I'll root for perverse storylines that will upset the apple cart and disturb the powers that be. ‘I think it would be a shame to upset the apple cart,’ she added. Once upon a time, books were meant to upset the apple cart, to make politicians nervous, threaten the status quo, shake up our expectations, make us question things anew. She is one of the most thoughtful judges on the court and is not afraid to upset the apple cart by doing the right thing. It is so lucrative for investment bankers, fund managers and brokers that none have any interest in upsetting the apple cart. They were breaking with the status quo, upsetting the apple cart, taking part in a 60s style rebellion against the establishment. Land speculators and developers are the biggest donors to civic election campaigns, he explained, so he doubts many city councillors or prospective mayors will want to upset the apple cart between now and October. Science is upsetting the apple cart, challenging long held notions related to life span and personality, undermining our cherished, traditional thoughts about ourselves. And there's another reason people don't want to upset the apple cart. Every one of the players currently in the Celtic squad are imbued with that ethic, and while a deluge of imports may lift morale, the drip-drip effect is less likely to upset the apple cart. Synonyms foil, frustrate, baulk, stand in the way of, forestall Origin Old English æppel, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch appel and German Apfel. noun.1 phr.
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