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Sweetness is how sweet something tastes — the amount of sugar-like flavor in food or a drink. It's also used for people: someone's sweetness is their gentle, kind, likeable nature — a 'sweetness' in the way they treat others.
甜味;(形容個性)溫柔可愛
原始詞典資料4 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。
sweetnessnoun/ˈswiːtnəs/
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The condition of being sweet (all senses).
- At the same time, that pain is soothed by the brain’s perception of sweetness on a totally different area of your taste buds.
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A pleasant disposition; kindness.
- Ruth's overwhelming sweetness made Robert forget about his hopelessly low school grades.
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The quality of giving pleasure to the mind or senses, pleasantness, agreeableness.
- The thirſt of raigne and ſweetnes of a crowne, […] / Moou’d me to menage armes againſt thy ſtate.
- Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.
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informalA term of address for one's sweetheart.
- Sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said / I'd like to smash every tooth in your head.
- "Hey sweetness," he said. "How was practice?"
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。