vintage

名词 vintage:

1. a season's yield of wine from a vineyard
2. the oldness of wines
   同义词：time of origin

1. He has some rare old vintage in his collection of wine.
   在他的酒类收藏中有一些名贵的陈年葡萄酒。
2. What vintage is this wine?
   这种酒是哪一年酿造的？
3. The vintage was later than usual.
   那次葡萄采收期比平常年份晚。

vin.tage

n.（名词）
The yield of wine or grapes from a vineyard or district during one season.
葡萄产量：一片葡萄园或地区在一个季节所获得的葡萄酒或葡萄的产量
Wine, usually of high quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
美酒：同一年和同一葡萄园生产的或源于同一地方的高品质酒
The year or place in which a wine is bottled.
酒产年，酒产地：瓶装酒的年代或地点

The harvesting of a grape crop.
葡萄的丰收：葡萄产量的丰收
The initial stages of winemaking.
初期阶断：制酒的初步阶段
Informal
【非正式用语】
A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics.
某一时代产生的事物或人物：具有某种相同特点的人或物的集合
A year or period of origin:
制造年份：开始存在的年代或时期：
例句：
a car of 942 vintage.
一部一九四二年出厂的汽车

Length of existence; age.
寿命：存在时间长短；年代
adj.（形容词）
Of or relating to a vintage.
酿酒的：酿酒的或与酿酒有关的
Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal; classic.
古老而享有声誉的：具有优秀、成熟或持久魅力特点的；古典的
Old or outmoded.
老式的，过时的：老的或不时兴的

Of the best:
最好的：
例句：
played songs that were vintage Cole Porter.
弹奏的是最好的科尔·波特的曲子

Of the most distinctive:
最有特色的：
例句：
.It was vintage Nixon: the fear of confrontation; the indirect approach; the acute insight.(Henry A. Kissinger)
.这就是独特的尼克松：害怕对峙；方法间接；洞察力敏锐.(亨利A.基辛格)

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Anglo-Norman
源自 英法语
alteration influenced by viniter [vintner]
受 viniter的影响 [出售葡萄酒的人]
of Old French vendange
古法语 vendange的变化
from Latin vondômia
源自 拉丁语 vondômia
vonum [grapes]
vonum [葡萄]
dômere [to take off] dô [de-] emere [to obtain] * see em-
dômere [脱下] dô [前缀de-] emere [获取] *参见 em-