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Fragrant means it has a smell, and the smell is a nice one. Flowers, soap, fruit, tea, rain on warm ground — if you lean in and think 'that smells good,' fragrant is the word. It is warm and a little ; in everyday talk people often just say it smells nice or it smells lovely.
Fragrant Fragrant means意思是 it有 has a smell味道, and而且 the smell這個味道 is a nice one是好聞的。Flowers, soap, fruit, tea, rain on warm ground花、肥皂、水果、茶、雨落在溫熱的地面上 if如果 you你 lean in and think湊近去覺得 ‘that smells good’「這味道真好聞」, fragrant fragrant is the word就是這個字。It它 is warm and a little bookish帶點溫暖、有點書面味; in everyday talk在日常口語裡 people人們 often just say常常直接說 it smells nice or或 it smells lovely它聞起來很香。
You would not use it for a bad smell. A garbage truck is , not fragrant. Cooks and perfume ads love it.
You你 would not use it不會用這個字 for a bad smell來形容難聞的味道。A garbage truck一台垃圾車 is smelly是smelly(臭), not fragrant而不是fragrant。Cooks and perfume ads廚師和香水廣告 love it很愛用這個字。
Though actually, it is about the smell being pleasant, not about how strong it is. A quiet hint of jasmine can be fragrant; so can a heavy bowl of . The noun is fragrance: the smell itself, or a perfume.
Though actually不過其實, it它 is about重點在於 the smell being pleasant味道好不好聞, not about how strong it is而不是味道強不強烈。A quiet hint of jasmine一絲淡淡的茉莉花香 can be fragrant也可以是fragrant的; so can a heavy bowl of spices一碗濃烈的香料也可以是。The noun名詞形式 is fragrance是fragrance: the smell itself指味道本身, or或 a perfume一款香水。
組成Borrowed from Latin frāgrāns, the 'smelling' form of the verb frāgrō, 'to smell'. English kept the pleasant-smell meaning.
同家族的字
- fragrancethe pleasant smell itself, or a perfume
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fragrantadj/ˈfɹeɪ.ɡɹənt/
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Sweet-smelling; having a pleasant (usually strong) scent or fragrance.
- fragrant flower
- fragrant smell
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Attractive.
- party-political interventions made by the fragrant Ms Stella Rimington.
- the fragrant Ms Lawson should rename her show 'Nigella Swallows'
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。