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Think of biting a peach and the juice running down your hand. `juicy` is that fullness — the good stuff is not just there, it is . Everything else the word does is that same feeling moved off food: a story, a role, or a sum of money that is loaded with what you actually wanted, and generous enough to run over.
可以想成一口咬下水蜜桃,汁沿著手流下來。juicy 抓的就是那種飽滿——好料不只是有,而是多到溢出來。其他用法都是把…更多收起
可以想成一口咬下水蜜桃,汁沿著手流下來。juicy 抓的就是那種飽滿——好料不只是有,而是多到溢出來。其他用法都是把這個感覺從食物搬到別的東西上:一則消息、一個角色、一筆錢,裡面裝著你真正想要的那部分,而且滿到讓人心滿意足。所以這個字帶著明顯的享受和貪心,語氣是輕鬆的、不是評價好壞。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。
juicyadj/ˈd͡ʒuːsi/
- 1
Having lots of juice.
- a juicy peach
- a juicy pot roast
- 2
Exciting; titillating.
- Near-synonyms: saucy, spicy
- I do not keep up with all the latest juicy rumors.
- 3
slangVoluptuous, curvy, thick; sexy in those ways.
- 4
Strong; thus, also painful.
- “Your head feels funny, doesn't it?” “It does rather,” I said, the bump I had given it had been a juicy one, and the temples were throbbing.
- Years ago, when striplings, he and I had done a stretch together at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, the preparatory school conducted by that prince of stinkers, Aubrey Upjohn MA, and had frequently stood side by side in the Upjohn study awaiting the receipt of six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said.
- 5
slangMuscular due to steroid use.
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。