Zest
[zest] or [zɛst]
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Relish, flavor, savor, taste, gust, gusto, smack, twang, appetizer.
校對:索尼亚
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Flavor, appetizer, gusto, gust, pleasure, enjoyment, relish, sharpener,recommendation, enhancement
ANT:Distaste, disrelish, detriment.
伊妮德編輯
解釋/意思:
n. something that gives a relish: relish.
編輯:鲁弗斯
例句/造句/用法:
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They would have over-emphasized the novelty of the adventure, trying to make him feel in it the zest of an escapade. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Men to-day can feel almost as much zest in the building of the Panama Canal as they did in a military victory. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The very difference of our dispositions gave zest to these conversations. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She turned back to the old ways with zest, away from him. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Such zests as his particular little phial of cayenne pepper and his pennyworth of pickles in a saucer, were not wanting. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
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