banana

1. A banana peel is the same as a banana skin. [水果的皮用peel和skin都可以]
2. If someone go bananas, they become mad or angry, or act very foolishly. [踩到香蕉皮后张牙舞爪？]
3. If public figures slip on a banana skin, they say or do something that makes them look stupid and causes them problems.
4. Banana skin is the source of difficulty or embarrassment. [比喻]
5. A banana republic is a small, often unstable, country whose economy depends on the export of fruit. [欧亨利的小说里提到过] William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. It was while he was in New York that Porter's most intensive writing period occurred, with Porter writing 381 short stories.

https://www.producebluebook.com/2019/11/29/the-story-behind-yes-we-have-no-bananas/

Bananas were so popular that in 1896, Theodore Roosevelt [罗斯福], then president of the city's Board of Police Commissioners [委员会], called for heavy fines ($1 to $5) and up to ten days in jail for throwing peels on the sidewalk. Those old jokes about slipping on banana peels had a basis in reality. 当时牛肉约$0.15/磅。窃以为我国交通违章罚的太轻(如昨天看电视，某人在高速上疲劳驾驶撞护栏后才罚了200元)。再如香港地铁进食罚款2000港币。

The dominant variety in those days was the Gros Michel or the Big Mike [大麦克]. It was cultivated in Central America to the exclusion of other varieties, making it vulnerable to Panama Disease, which would make the Big Mike virtually extinct by 1960.

But shortages caused by the disease occurred much earlier. One day, songwriters Frank Silver and Irving Cohn stopped at a fruit stand [水果摊] whose Greek owner told them, “Yes! We have no bananas,” inspiring a song that remained a number one hit for five weeks in 1923.

香蕉和芭蕉同属芭蕉科，在形、色、味上都很相近。香蕉味道浓甜，而芭蕉果肉细致油滑，但回味中略带一些酸涩。

A banana connector (commonly banana plug for the male, banana socket or banana jack for the female) is a single-wire (one conductor) electrical connector used for joining wires to equipment.

BNC连接器不是Banana Native Connector. The BNC connector is a miniature quick connect/disconnect radio frequency connector used for coaxial cable [同轴电缆]. It was named the BNC(for Bayonet Neill–Concelman) after its bayonet [刺刀] mount [安装] locking mechanism and its inventors, Paul Neill and Carl Concelman. Neill worked at Bell Labs and also invented the N connector; Concelman worked at Amphenol and also invented the C connector. A backronym has been mistakenly applied to it: British Naval Connector. acronym: 首字母缩略词。backronym: 事后诸葛亮式的acronym.

六级/考研单词: banana, peel, embarrass, seldom, import, intensive, jail, cultivate, vulnerable, extinct, frank, silver, inspire, plug, socket, conduct, equip, indigenous, miniature, mount