Sloe gin is not a true gin.Sloe gin is a sweet, often gin-based liqueur flavored with blackthorn plums (sloe plums). 在鸡尾酒的酒谱里,琴酒的使用量非常的大,一些有名的鸡尾酒,成份大都离不开琴酒,例如:世界知名的〔马丁尼〕便是。
Unknown hands dragged Harry roughly off the ground, before he could stop them, someone had rummaged through his pockets and removed the blackthorn wand.
不知谁的手将哈利粗鲁的拽离地面,在他阻止前,已经有人在翻遍他的口袋并且拿走了他的李木魔杖。
哈利波特与死亡圣器
" I don't know. We could do with an unbeatable wand, " said Harry, turning the blackthorn wand he so disliked over in his fingers.
“我不知道,不过我们倒是很需要一根无敌的魔杖。”哈利一边说,一边在指间转动着令他生厌的黑李木魔杖。
哈利波特与死亡圣器
For ten minutes or so Ron tapped and muttered, Hermione turned the pages of her book, and Harry continued to practice with the blackthorn wand.
罗恩敲敲打打地咕哝了大约十分钟,赫敏翻了一页书,哈利则继续练习使用李木魔杖。
7.哈利波特与死亡圣器
Somehow Harry connected these unsatisfying, vague images with the destruction of his wand, as if it was the blackthorn wand's fault that he could no longer see into Voldemort's mind as well as before.
Harry could not help but remember how Hermione has dismissed his loathing of the blackthorn wand, insisting that he was imagining things when it did not work as well as his own, telling him to simply practice.
I recall my moments of delight, the recognition of each flower that unfolded, the surprise of budding branches clothed in a night with green. The first snowy gleam upon the blackthorn did not escape me.
Prunus spinosa (blackthorn, or sloe) is a species of Prunus native to Europe, western Asia, and locally in northwest Africa. It is also locally naturalised in New Zealand and eastern North America.