grenade: [16] The original grenades were small spherical explosive-filled cases with a wick on top. In shape, they bore more than a passing resemblance to pomegranates. The Old French term for ‘pomegranate’ was pome grenate, or just grenate for short, and it was this abbreviated form, altered to grenade under the influence of the related Spanish granada, that was applied to the explosive device. Grenadier [17] came from the French derivative grenadier ‘grenadethrower’. => grain, grenadier, pomegranate
grenade (n.)
"small explosive shell," thrown rather than discharged from a cannon, 1590s, earlier "pomegranate" (1520s), from Middle French grenade "pomegranate" (16c.), earlier grenate (12c.), from Old French pomegrenate (see pomegranate). Form influenced by Spanish granada. So called because the many-seeded fruit suggested the powder-filled, fragmenting bomb, or from similarities of shape. See pomegranate. Much used late 17c., they went out of use 18c. but were revived 20c.
实用例句
1. Simon caught the grenade and hurled it back.
西蒙接住手榴弹，又把它大力掷了回去。
来自柯林斯例句
2. He was hit by shrapnel from a grenade.
他被手榴弹的弹片击中了。
来自柯林斯例句
3. He killed two policemen with a grenade.
他用一枚手榴弹炸死了两名警察.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. The hand - grenade exploded right over the enemy.
手榴弹在敌人头上开花.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5. Then with a loud explosion a hand - grenade immediately blew the whole group of officers into a disorderly pile of dead bodies.
