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Zest has two quite different everyday meanings. It's the outer, colorful peel of a lemon, orange, or other citrus fruit, grated finely and used to add flavor in cooking. It's also used for a strong feeling of enthusiasm and enjoyment — someone with a real 'zest for life' throws themselves into things happily.
（果皮）柑橘皮屑；（比喻）熱忱、活力
原始詞典資料7 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。
zestnoun/zɛst/
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The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.
- The orange zest gives the strong flavor in this dish.
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General vibrance of flavour.
- I add zest to the meat by rubbing it with a spice mixture before grilling.
- He rolled his own cigarettes from a sack of Bull Durham, spilling flakes into his beer, which no doubt gained in zest thereby.
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Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; exciting and interesting; relish or gusto; a state of being zesty.
- Auntie Mame had a real zest for life.
- 1728, Edward Young, Love of Fame, the Universal Passion, Satire II in The Works of the Reverend Edward Young, London: P. Brown, H. Hill & S. Payne, 1765, Volume I, p. 85, Almighty vanity! to thee they owe Their zest of pleasure, and their balm of woe.
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rareThe woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut.
- The green zest of walnuts was used by the women to shine their teeth and it also gave a beautiful rust colour to their lips.
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derogatoryslangState of being a flamboyant or effeminate homosexual.
zestverb/zɛst/
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cookingfoodlifestyleTo scrape the zest from a fruit.
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To make more zesty.
- Strains ſo artleſs tho’ we proffer, Hearts o’er flowing zest the offer.
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。