“tembo”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

tembo

释义

‖ tembo|ˈtɛmbəʊ|
Also tembu.
[Swahili.]
An alcoholic drink made in East Africa, usu. from the sap of the coconut palm; palm wine.
1860J. Krapf Travels, Researches & Missionary Labours i. ix. 149 One of the elders said that it was really true that God loved men, for He gave the Wanika rain, tembo, and clothes.1937K. Blixen Out of Africa iii. i. 170, I sometimes asked the D.C.'s permission for my Squatters to make tembu, a deadly drink, fabricated from sugar cane.Ibid. v. v. 411 The old women took a keen interest in everything that was going on on the farm..; a joke, on a cup of tembu, would make their wrinkled toothless faces dissolve in laughter.1964R. M. Gatheru Child of Two Worlds vii. 101 Others would be drinking some stinking municipally brewed drink—‘Tembo’—at Pumwani as an outlet for their handicapped life.

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