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Succulence is the quality of being full of juice — soft, wet inside, and delicious to eat. It is the noun of the adjective succulent. You use it about food, above all meat and fruit: the succulence of a roast chicken, the succulence of a fresh peach. It is not simply the same as being wet. Wet food can be nasty. Succulence means the juice is inside the food, held there, and comes out when you bite. That is why it sounds so good. This is a written, fancy word. In real speech, people say 'so juicy' or 'really tender'. You will meet succulence in restaurant reviews, cooking magazines, menus, and for food — places where the writer is trying to make you hungry. If you say it in normal conversation, you will sound like you are reading from a menu, which can be funny on purpose. Note that the adjective succulent has a second life in gardening: a succulent is a plant like a or aloe that stores water in thick leaves. But the noun succulence is almost never used for those plants — it stays with food.
多汁、鮮嫩多汁(食物)。中文常講「口感多汁」「肉質鮮嫩」;台灣美食報導愛用的那種形容。
組成succulent (juicy) + -ence, an ending that turns a describing word into the name of a quality — the same ending in patience, silence, difference. Succulent itself comes from Latin sucus, meaning juice or sap.
同家族的字
- succulentthe adjective this noun is built from — juicy
原始詞典資料1 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。
succulencenoun
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The property of being succulent.
- Many brought presents of roast chickens and pigs, swinging the fowls by their legs as they extolled their succulence.
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。