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'Woodsy' means it feels like the woods. You use it for a place — 'a woodsy path', 'a woodsy corner of the park' — meaning full of trees, quiet, a bit wild. You also use it a lot for smells and tastes: a woodsy perfume, a woodsy tea, a woodsy whisky — meaning it smells of trees, bark, moss, damp earth, the forest floor. This second use is very common in advertising and in writing about coffee, wine and perfume. It is a relaxed, everyday American word; British speakers understand it but say it less often. Keep it apart from 'woody', which is close but different: 'woody' usually means made of wood or hard like wood ('a woody stem', 'woody plants'), while 'woodsy' is about the feeling of being among trees. Perfume writers do blur the two, so you will meet both.
(地方)樹林般的、林木蓊鬱的;(氣味、味道)帶木質調的、有森林味的
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
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woodsyadj/ˈwʊdzi/
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Of, relating to, or suggestive of a wooded area.
- Harry, Tina, Esther, and I ran up and down and in and about the piles of wood that evening with a joyous satisfaction. How fresh and spicy and woodsy it smelt!
- It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaws out. This is the mighty W.O.O.D., the musical voice of Lumberton. At the sound of the falling tree, it's 9:30.
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Of a place: having many trees.
- "The first thing he said was he was 'fraid she'd got into the woods. You know they always find um in the woods in the papers. They git confused 'n' they wander round." / "Yes," said Mr. Townshend, "that's about it, you see. I thought right away of Noah's Island; it's the woodsiest place there is about. I sh'll git some men together right away.[…]"
- No lovelier day, no woodsier woods, or better company.
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。