champagne: [17] Champagne comes (as does campaign) from late Latin campānia, a derivative of Latin campus ‘open field’ (source of English camp). This passed into Old French as champagne ‘open country’, a word borrowed into English in the 14th century as champaign (now archaic). It came to be applied specifically to a province of northeastern France (an area largely of open rolling countryside) and hence to the wine produced in that area.
There are references to ‘brisk Champagne’ and ‘sparkling Champagne’ in English from the 1660s and 1670s, but it was not until about two hundred years ago that modern champagne, produced by secondary fermentation in bottle, was invented (according to legend, by the monk Dom Perignon). => camp, campaign, champion
champagne (n.)
1660s, from French, short for vin de Champagne
"wine made in Champagne," former province in northwest France, literally "open country" (see campaign (n.)). Originally any wine from this region, focused to the modern meaning late 18c.
雙語例句
1. We had a nice meal with a bottle of champagne.
我們美餐了一頓，還喝了一瓶香檳。
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2. Eugene was concocting Rossini Cocktails from champagne and pureed raspberries.
尤金當(dāng)時(shí)正在用香檳和覆盆子醬調(diào)配羅西尼雞尾酒。
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3. A moment or two later champagne in an ice-bucket materialized beside them.
片刻之后，他們身邊出現(xiàn)了一只裝著香檳的冰桶。
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4. Could this really stop the champagne from going flat?
這真的能讓香檳不走氣嗎？
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5. If we're feeling flush we'll probably give them champagne.