syrup
/ˈsɪrəp/( <美> 亦作sirup)
noun
1
- mass noun a thick sweet liquid made by dissolving sugar in boiling water, often used for preserving fruit糖浆（常用于保存水果）。
1.1
- a thick sweet liquid containing medicine or used as a drink含药糖浆, 饮品糖浆：
cough syrup.
止咳糖浆。
1.2
- a thick, sticky liquid obtained from sugar cane as part of the processing of sugar（炼制蔗糖时得到的）糖汁。
1.3
- figurative excessive sweetness or sentimentality of style or manner〈喻〉（风格, 态度）过分甜蜜; 过分多愁善感：
Mr Gurney's poems are almost all of them syrup.
哥尼先生的诗几乎全都是多情伤感类的。
2
- Brit. informal a wig〈英, 非正式〉假发。
- ORIGIN: from rhyming slang syrup of figs.
词源
late Middle English: from Old French sirop or medieval Latin siropus, from Arabic šarāb 'beverage'; compare with SHERBET and SHRUB2 .