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If you do something with gusto, you do it with real and energy — you throw yourself in, and you look as if you are enjoying the doing, not only the result. English almost always uses that little frame, with gusto: eating, singing, arguing, working. It came from Italian gusto, “taste”: the idea is that you have a taste for the thing, so you go at it with pleasure. In English it is no longer a food-taste word, though a person eating with gusto is a very common picture. It feels warm and cheerful, a bit old-fashioned in a kind way, not stiff or formal.
興致、勁頭(with gusto=興致勃勃地、很有勁地)
組成Borrowed from Italian gusto, from Latin gustus (“taste”). It is a doublet of a rare old English cost from the same root — not the everyday word cost meaning price.
同家族的字
- disgustboth go back to Latin gustus, “taste”; disgust is a bad taste in the mind
原始詞典資料5 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。
gustonoun/ˈɡʌstəʊ/
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Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor.
- He sang with more gusto than talent.
- Sing, Johnny One-Note / Sing out with gusto / And just overwhelm all the crowd
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rareAn individual's fondness or liking of a particular flavor.
- Why should you force wine upon us? We are not all of your gusto.
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artartsThe style in which a work is done, its artistic style, and occasionally, the prevailing style in matters of taste.
- The Designs..are of very mean Gusto.
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obsoleteAesthetic appreciation.
- Another, who has no Gusto of either sort, believes all those they call Virtuosi to be half-distracted.
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obsoleterarecookingfoodlifestyleOf food, flavor or savour.
- Melons of the richest gusto abound everywhere.
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。