1
- a soft pear-shaped fruit with sweet dark flesh and many small seeds, eaten fresh or dried无花果。
2
- （亦作fig tree）the deciduous Old World tree or shrub which bears this fruit无花果树。
2.1
- Ficus carica, family Moraceae.拉丁名Ficus carica,桑科。
2.2
- used in names of other plants of this genus, e.g. strangling fig, weeping fig用于无花果属或榕属其他植物的名称中, 如strangling fig, weeping fig。
短语
not give （或 care） a fig
- not have the slightest concern about毫不在乎：
Elaine didn't give a fig for Joe's comfort or his state of mind.
伊莱恩毫不在乎乔的舒适与否或他会怎么想。
词源
Middle English: from Old French figue, from Provençal fig(u)a, based on Latin ficus.
informal <非正式>
(用于短语full fig)
- smart clothes, especially those appropriate to a particular occasion or profession（尤指适合特殊场合或职业穿的）漂亮服装, 盛装：
a soldier walking up the street in full fig.
一个穿着盛装、沿街走来的士兵。
figged, figging
with obj. archaic dress up (someone) to look smart〈古〉打扮（某人）：landsmen are figged out as fine as Lord Harry.
新水手们个个打扮得像哈里勋爵一样体面。
词源
late 17th cent. (as a verb)： variant of obsolete feague 'liven up' （earlier 'whip'）; perhaps related to German fegen 'sweep, thrash'; compare with FAKE1. An early sense of the verb was 'fill the head with nonsense'; later （early 19th cent.） 'cause (a horse) to be lively and carry its tail well (by applying ginger to its anus)'; hence 'smarten up'.