| 单词 | sweet |
| 释义 | sweet adj. & n. --adj 1. having the pleasant taste characteristic of sugar. 2. smelling pleasant like roses or perfume etc.; fragrant. 3. (of sound etc.) melodious or harmonious. 4. a not salt, sour, or bitter. b fresh, with flavour unimpaired by rottenness. c (of water) fresh and readily drinkable. 5. (of wine) having a sweet taste (opp. DRY). 6. highly gratifying or attractive. 7. amiable, pleasant (has a sweet nature). 8. colloq. (of a person or thing) pretty, charming, endearing. 9. (foll. by on) colloq. fond of; in love with. --n 1. Brit. a small shaped piece of confectionery usu. made with sugar or sweet chocolate. 2. Brit. a sweet dish forming a course of a meal. 3. a sweet part of something; sweetness. 4. (in pl.) delights, gratification. 5. (esp. as a form of address) sweetheart etc. Phrases and idioms she's sweet Austral. sl. all is well. sweet-and-sour cooked in a sauce containing sugar and vinegar or lemon etc. sweet basil see BASIL. sweet bay = BAY(2). sweet-brier see BRIER(1). sweet chestnut see CHESTNUT. sweet cicely a white-flowered aromatic plant, Myrrhis odorata. sweet corn 1. a kind of maize with kernels having a high sugar content. 2. these kernels, eaten as a vegetable when young. sweet flag = sweet rush. sweet-gale see GALE(2). sweet pea any climbing plant of the genus Lathyrus, esp. L. odoratus with fragrant flowers in many colours. sweet pepper see PEPPER. sweet potato 1. a tropical climbing plant, Ipomoea batatas, with sweet tuberous roots used for food. 2. the root of this. sweet rocket see ROCKET(2). sweet rush (or sedge) a kind of sedge with a thick creeping aromatic rootstock used in medicine and confectionery. sweet sultan a sweet-scented plant, Centaurea moschata or C. suaveoleus. sweet talk colloq. flattery, blandishment. sweet-talk v.tr. colloq. flatter in order to persuade. sweet-tempered amiable. sweet tooth a liking for sweet-tasting things. sweet violet a sweet-scented violet, Viola odorata. sweet william a plant, Dianthus barbatus, with clusters of vivid fragrant flowers. Derivatives sweetish adj. sweetly adv. Etymology: OE swete f. Gmc |
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