• n. 通心粉；通心面條；紈绔子弟

來自意大利語maccarone,一種面團制成的食物，可能來自maccare,搗，壓碎，詞源同macaroon.后用于指這種面團制成的通心粉。

macaroni

macaroni: [16] Macaroni was the earliest of the Italian pasta terms to be borrowed into English, and so it now differs more than any other from its original. When English acquired it, the Italian word was maccaroni (it came ultimately from late Greek makaría ‘food made from barley’), but now it has become maccheroni. The colloquial 18th-century application of macaroni to a ‘dandy’ is thought to have been an allusion to such people’s supposed liking for foreign food.

And the derivative macaronic [17], used for a sort of verse in which Latin words are mixed in with vernacular ones for comic effect, was originally coined in Italian, comparing the verse’s crude mixture of languages with the homely hotchpotch of a macaroni dish. Macaroon [17] comes from macaron, the French descendant of Italian maccaroni.
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macaroni (n.)

"tube-shaped food made of dried wheaten paste" [Klein], 1590s, from southern Italian dialectal maccaroni (Italian maccheroni), plural of maccarone, name for a kind of pasty food, possibly from maccare "bruise, batter, crush," which is of unknown origin, or from late Greek makaria "food made from barley."

Used by 1769 to mean "a fop, a dandy" ("typical of elegant young men" would be the sense in "Yankee Doodle") because it was an exotic dish at a time when certain young men who had traveled the continent were affecting French and Italian fashions and accents. There is said to have been a Macaroni Club in Britain, which was the immediate source of this usage in English.

1. They tend to buy cheap processed foods like canned chicken and macaroni.

他們往往會買便宜的加工食品，像雞肉罐頭和通心粉之類的。

來自柯林斯例句

2. He sat down to a great dish of macaroni.

他坐下來吃了一大碗通心粉.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. The last scene shows you what will happen at the end of the harvest: the famous Calabrian macaroni - eating competition!

最后這個場面向你表明,收獲結束時將要進行的活動: 卡拉布亞人吃通心面的對抗賽!

來自《用法詞典》

4. Here you can see two workers who, between them, have just finished cutting three cart - loads of golden brown macaroni stalks.

在這里,你可以看到兩個勞動者, 他們倆協力割下了三車金黃色的通心面秸.

來自《用法詞典》

5. There were few provisions available in exchange for food stamps: ersatz coffee, macaroni, small cubes of margarine.

可以用來換取糧票的食物只有這些：代用咖啡、通心粉和小塊的人造黃油。

來自辭典例句