你听说过有关西红柿(tomato)来历的小故事吗?从前有个叫汤姆的小男孩,吃了一只西红柿(当时还没有tomato这个词)。当时人们认为西红柿是有毒的,吃了就会死,于是其他的小朋友们惊恐地跑去通知汤姆的父母:“大事不好啦。汤姆吃了一个西红柿!”当然,他们是用英语说的:“Tomatethose,Tomatethose,Tomatethose!”据说这句话的发音和tomatos非常相似,因此成了tomato一词的起源。 Have you heard of the story about the origin of tomatoes? There was a young boy named Tom who had eaten a tomato (at the time there was no word for tomato). At that time, people thought that the tomatoes were poisonous and they died when they ate, and other children ran in horror to inform Tom’s parents: “The big business is bad. Tom ate a tomato!” Of course, they spoke in English: “Tomatethose, Tomatethose, Tomatethose!” It is said that the pronunciation of this sentence is very similar to the tomatos, and thus became the origin of the word tomato.