核心畫面

A good way to hold this word is: a sweet smell moving through the air. Walk past a flower or an orange being peeled and something pleasant reaches you before you touch anything. Everything else in the word grows out of that — catching such a smell in a bottle, and filling a room or a piece of cloth with it.

可以想成「一股好聞的味道在空氣裡飄過來」:經過一叢花、或旁邊有人剝橘子,你還沒碰到任何東西,香味就先到了。這個字其他更多收起可以想成「一股好聞的味道在空氣裡飄過來」:經過一叢花、或旁邊有人剝橘子,你還沒碰到任何東西,香味就先到了。這個字其他用法都從這個畫面長出去——把這種香味裝進瓶子裡(香水),以及讓一個空間或一件衣服帶上這種香味。

原始詞典資料3 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。

perfumenoun/ˈpɜːfjuːm/

  • 1

    A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor.

    • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
    • Among the Turks, an exciting compound consists of olibanum, myrrh, camphor, musk, in pulverized form. The resultant perfume is said to affect the genitals.
  • 2

    A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.

    • She bought a perfume at the airport.
    • The market for prestige perfumes is pretty much restricted to what industry economists call “gotrocks ladies”—women in households with annual incomes over $40,000 and who are over forty but still young enough to have a sense of smell (Elizabeth Taylor, for instance).

perfumeverb/ˈpɜːfjuːm/

  • 1

    To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。