| 释义 |
ˈzesty, a.|ˈzɛstɪ|
[f. zest n.1 + -y1.]
1. Of a taste or a food: piquant, agreeably sharp.
1934in Webster. 1936[see pick-up n. f]. 1953‘A. Bridge’ Place to Stand v. 67 The meal was plain and good, with the zesty taste of country cooking. 1969Daily Tel. 5 Feb. 15/5 The food is spicy and zesty enough to make you nearly spring out of your seat. 1971A. G. Seaberg Menu–Design–Merchandising 214 The zesty garlic butter brings out the best in this epicurean treat from the sea.
2. fig. Energetic, lively, stimulating.
1952Time 15 Dec. 33/1 Zesty as a two-year-old rounding into the stretch, Britain's aged Prime Minister Winston Churchill last week entered his 79th year enthusiastically agallop on all his old hobbies. 1958Oxf. Mag. 22 May 459/1 The little farrago ends with a bound of zesty life-assertion and merriment. 1959News Chron. 23 July 5/5 To provide its zesty performance, Rootes' engineers have developed an aluminium cylinder head. 1972Time 17 Apr. 43/2 Housing starts remain zesty, at an annual rate of 2,500,000 units in recent months. 1981N.Y. Times Mag. 27 Apr. 18/3 The zesty lexicographer from New Zealand neither equivocates nor jazzes around. 1982Observer 10 Oct. 40/8 This column's Third Rule of Television—‘If it works, change it’—was given another zesty outing last week. |