brownie
n. 界仁巧克力饼
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释义与例句
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1.
A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
布朗尼
可数 烹饪 不可数Order for the brownie was placed but it took half an hour to prepare it.
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2.
A sweet bread with brown sugar and currants.
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A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.
棕仙
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A copper coin, brown in colour; a penny, halfpenny, or cent.
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A household spirit or revered ancestor.
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Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Eurasian genus Miletus.
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A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
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A widow rockfish (Sebastes entomelas), a fish in the family Sebastidae.
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Alternative letter-case form of Brownie (“a girl in the first level of Girl Guides (US: Girl Scouts)”).
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10.
A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
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11.
A person with brown skin.
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词源
From brown + -ie (diminutive suffix). In folkloric sense, originally Scots. For sense 7, compare with Dutch kabouter (“a very young female member of the scout movement”) (literally "gnome").
来源：wiktionary