banana

noun
🔊/bəˈnɑːnə/
🔊/bəˈnænə/
[countable, uncountable]Idioms
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  1. a long curved fruit with a thick yellow skin and that is soft inside, which grows on trees in hot countries香蕉
    • a bunch of bananas一串香蕉
    • ripe bananas成熟的香蕉
    • mashed banana香蕉泥
    • a banana skin/peel香蕉皮/果皮
    see also second banana, top bananaTopics Fooda1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • ripe
    • overripe
    • green
    … of bananas
    • bunch
    verb + banana
    • eat
    • have
    • pick
    banana + noun
    • peel
    • skin
    • plant
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    Word Originlate 16th cent.: via Portuguese or Spanish from Mande. Mande is a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken by the Mande people of West Africa.
Idioms
go bananas
  1. (slang) to become angry, crazy or silly发怒;发疯;犯傻
    • He lost his job and just went bananas.他丢了工作,刚去吃香蕉。
    • The British press has gone bananas, proclaiming the end of civilization as we know it.英国媒体大吃一惊,宣告了文明的终结。
    Topics Personal qualitiesc2, Feelingsc2