| 释义 |
‖ pinga|ˈpiŋa|
[Pg., lit. ‘drop (of water)’.]
A raw white rum distilled from sugar-cane in Brazil.
1933P. Fleming Brazilian Adventure i. xii. 98 You drank black coffee with pinga in it. 1960Guardian 14 June 9/6 Her breath reeked of pinga (a cheap drink made from sugar cane). 1974Country Life 31 Oct. 1314/3 Sugar-cane spirit (or pinga). 1977Lancet 24–31 Dec. 1365/2 We have studied 61 alcoholic patients with pellagra aged 23–49, most of them drinking more than 800 ml of pinga (a Brazilian alcoholic beverage similar to white rum) containing about 300 ml of pure ethanol. |