像桃子:顏色與味道
直接把桃子當比較對象,最貼近字面。
adjective · B2
Tasting or smelling like a peach, or looking like one — that soft warm orange-pink colour and soft surface.
像桃子的(味道或顏色)
One way to hold peachy: a ripe peach in your hand. Soft skin, warm pink-orange colour, sweet smell — nothing sharp about it anywhere. Everything the word does grows out of that one fruit. Point it at a wall or a face and you get the colour; point it at a whole situation and you get the feeling, a life as easy as biting into the fruit. And because that feeling is so unmistakably pleasant, it is perfect for saying when your day is anything but.
Peachy is simply peach + -y, 'having the quality of a peach', so the fruit is not a metaphor bolted on later — it is what the word is made of.
peachy 就是 peach 加上字尾 -y(帶有…特質的)。所以桃子不是後來才加上的比喻,而是這個字的組成本身。
Wiktionary/kaikki entry for peachy (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:785775832): 'From peach + -y.'
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像桃子:顏色與味道
直接把桃子當比較對象,最貼近字面。
adjective · B2
Tasting or smelling like a peach, or looking like one — that soft warm orange-pink colour and soft surface.
像桃子的(味道或顏色)
口語:一切美好(含反話)
從「桃子給人的舒服感覺」跳到「整個狀況給人的舒服感覺」。
adjective · B2
Very good, fine, or going well — and, said in a flat voice, the same word is used to mean that things are in fact going badly.
好得很;(反話)真「棒」