a small green or purple fruit that grows in bunches on a climbing plant (called a vine). Wine is made from grapes. 葡萄 
a bunch of grapes 一串葡萄 black/white grapes (= grapes that are actually purple/green in colour) 紫／绿葡萄 We picked grapes in the south of France last summer. 去年夏天我们在法国南部摘葡萄。 The peasants used to tread the grapes in huge vats. 农民以前站在大桶里踩葡萄。 lovely sweet grapes 香甜可口的葡萄
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- sweet
- black
- green
- …
- bunch
- eat
- have
- grow
- …
- harvest
- juice
Word OriginMiddle English (also in the Old French sense): from Old French, ‘bunch of grapes’, probably from graper ‘gather (grapes)’, from grap ‘hook’ (denoting an implement used in harvesting grapes), of Germanic origin.
Idioms
sour grapes
- (saying)
used to show that you think somebody is jealous and is pretending that something is not important 酸葡萄（表示某人表面贬低某事物，实则是嫉妒）