beverage: [13] Beverage goes back to Latin bibere ‘drink’, from which English also gets imbibe [14], bibulous [17], beer, and probably bibber. From the verb was formed the Vulgar Latin noun *biberāticum ‘something to drink’, and hence, via Old French bevrage, English beverage. The colloquial abbreviation bevvy is at least 100 years old (it has been speculated, but never proved, that bevy ‘large group’ [15] comes from the same source). => beer, bevy, bib, bibulous, imbibe
beverage (n.)
mid-13c., from Anglo-French beverage, Old French bevrage, from Old French boivre "to drink" (Modern French boire; from Latin bibere "to imbibe;" see imbibe) + -age, suffix forming mass or abstract nouns.
权威例句
1. We were obliged, faute de mieux, to drink the local beverage.
因为没有更好的饮料,我们只好将就着喝当地的。
2. Coffee is a fragrant beverage.
咖啡是一种香味浓郁的饮料.
3. Beer is a beverage of the remotest time.
啤酒是一种最古老的饮料.
4. The tin - free steel has been used for the manufacture of beverage cans.
无锡钢一直用来制造饮料罐.
5. That considerate lady made the beverage, and handed it to Mr. Bounderby.