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Quintessential means ‘being a perfect example of a particular type of person or thing’.
Quintessentialquintessential means 'being a perfect example of a particular type of person or thing'意思是「是某一類人或東西最完美的例子」
A quintessential English village is the village that seems to gather all the usual pieces — the green, the church, the pub — into one picture. A quintessential teacher of a certain kind is the person who most clearly is that kind.
A quintessential English village一個quintessential的英國村莊 is the village that seems to gather all the usual pieces就是那種好像把所有典型元素都集合在一起的村莊 the green, the church, the pub綠地、教堂、酒吧 into one picture融合成一幅畫面 A quintessential teacher of a certain kind某種特定類型裡quintessential的老師 is the person who most clearly is that kind就是最明顯屬於那種類型的人
It is the everyday member of this family: more common than the noun , a little more formal than ‘typical’, and stronger than ‘typical’ too, because it claims not just ‘usual’ but ‘the very type itself’. People use it in reviews, profiles, and careful description more than in chat.
It is the everyday member of this family它是這個字族裡日常會用的成員 more common than the noun quintessence比名詞quintessence常見 a little more formal than 'typical'比'typical'正式一點 and stronger than 'typical' too也比'typical'更強烈 because it claims not just 'usual' but 'the very type itself'因為它主張的不只是「一般」，而是「那個類型本身」 People use it大家會用它 in reviews, profiles, and careful description在評論、人物介紹，和講究一點的描述裡 more than in chat比在閒聊裡更常用
組成From quintessence + -al.
同家族的字
- quintessencethe noun this adjective is built from
- quintessentiallythe adverb form
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。
quintessentialadj/ˌkwɪntɪˈsɛnʃəl/
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Of the nature of a quintessence (in all senses); being or relating to the ultimate essence of something.
- Often heralded as the quintessential RPG, and rarely rivaled by any other, this game is becoming increasingly difficult to find due to the fact that so many RPG fans are buying them at every chance they get.
- The krogan evolved in a lethal ecology. Over millions of years, the grim struggle to survive larger predators, virulent disease, and resource scarcity on their homeworld, Tuchanka, turned the lizards into quintessential survivors.
quintessentialnoun/ˌkwɪntɪˈsɛnʃəl/
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The fundamental essence of something.
- A final aspect of the focus argument concerns the potential for integration to highlight the quintessentials of each subject.
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。