| 单词 | soupcon |
| 释义 | soupcon (once / 137434 pages) n If you ask the waiter for a soupcon of hot sauce on your omelet, he will give you a dash of Tabasco, provided he knows what soupcon means. It's hard for English speakers not to think of soup when they see this word, especially since it can mean a trace of something (such as a flavor), but the ancestor of soupçon is the same one that gives us suspicion and suspect, the Latin suspectionem: the common theme is that of an idea formed from scant evidence. WORD FAMILYsoupcon: soupcons USAGE EXAMPLESIt was a consummate performance and yet seemed to be missing a hair’s breadth of effect, a soupçon of the melting beauty Brownlee can summon. Washington Post(Oct 19, 2016) An untrimmed monobrow might be just add the right soupçon of perversity, whereas shaving off one eyebrow and dying the remaining one cerise, might not. Slate(May 23, 2016) But surely Bosie could have been armed with charm, at least, and a soupçon of self-awareness. New York Times(May 17, 2016) n a slight but appreciable amount Syn|Hypo|Hyper hint, jot, mite, pinch, speck, tinge, touch snuff a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude |
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