Zest
[zest] or [zɛst]
解释:
(n.) A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc.
(n.) Hence, something that gives or enhances a pleasant taste, or the taste itself; an appetizer; also, keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.
(n.) The woody, thick skin inclosing the kernel of a walnut.
(v. t.) To cut into thin slips, as the peel of an orange, lemon, etc.; to squeeze, as peel, over the surface of anything.
(v. t.) To give a relish or flavor to; to heighten the taste or relish of; as, to zest wine.
手打:南希
同义词及近义词:
n. Relish, flavor, savor, taste, gust, gusto, smack, twang, appetizer.
校对:索尼亚
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Flavor, appetizer, gusto, gust, pleasure, enjoyment, relish, sharpener,recommendation, enhancement
ANT:Distaste, disrelish, detriment.
伊妮德编辑
解释:
n. something that gives a relish: relish.
编辑:鲁弗斯
例句:
- We hear too much in history of the campaigns and massacres of the Mongols, and not enough of their indubitable curiosity and zest for learning. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They would have over-emphasized the novelty of the adventure, trying to make him feel in it the zest of an escapade. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- His friend, Milt Adams, went West with quenchless zest for that kind of roving life and aimless adventure of which the serious minded Edison had already had more than enough. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Men to-day can feel almost as much zest in the building of the Panama Canal as they did in a military victory. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The very difference of our dispositions gave zest to these conversations. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- She turned back to the old ways with zest, away from him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The game of Great Powers was resumed with zest, after an interval of sixty years, and it continued until it produced the catastrophe of 1914. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Such zests as his particular little phial of cayenne pepper and his pennyworth of pickles in a saucer, were not wanting. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
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