"Indian millet," 1590s, from Modern Latin Sorghum, the genus name, from Italian sorgo "a tall cereal grass," probably from Medieval Latin surgum, suricum (12c.), perhaps a variant of Latin syricum "Syrian," as in Syricum (gramen) "(grass) of Syria," from Syria, a possible source of the plant or its grain in ancient times.
例文
1. We can grow sorghum or maize on this plot.
この地にはコウリャンやトウモロコシを植えることができる。
2.They made sorghum into pig feed.
彼らはコウリャンを豚の飼料にした。
3.The sorghum is in the ear.
コウリャンが穂を出した.
4.From the "Red Sorghum "、Mo Yan almost never stops his exploration and innovation in the aspects of literary style.
は『赤いコーリャン』から始まり、莫言氏は文体面での探索と革新をほとんど止めなかった。
5.Mo Yan’s novel Red Sorghum first came to wide attention on the big screen both at home and abroad in 1987.