| 单词 | sweet |
| 释义 | sweet I. 1. a. < not often that a mind so attractive goes with a character so sweet as his — H.J.Laski > < her sweet personality > b. < sweet reasonableness — Matthew Arnold > c. < that's very sweet of her > 2. a. b. (1) of a beverage (2) of wine < a sweet sherry > c. < the flaw in her book is the sweet side, the Pollyanna note, that fatal emphasis on the happy ending — Rosemary Benét > d. < sweet pickles > 3. a. < the sweetest privilege that any writer can ask — Irving Kolodin > < the pleasant smell overcame him like sweet sleep — O.E.Rölvaag > b. < the valleys are sweet with the fragrance of orange blossoms — American Guide Series: Arizona > < the sweet smell of new-cut boards — Sherwood Anderson > c. (1) < the angelic, disembodied voices … were incredibly pure and sweet — John Steinbeck > < the bell sounds as sweet today as it ever did — New Yorker > (2) d. < flower motifs and emblems, all printed in sweet colors — Charles Rosner > < remembered the sweet lines of her arms — Walter O'Meara > e. < a sweet young thing > < a sweet face > 4. < then pardon him, sweet father, for my sake — Shakespeare > < sweetest love, I do not go, for weariness of thee — John Donne > 5. a. < put the bottle in the stream to keep the milk sweet > < here was the pinch of mystery that kept the legend sweet — John Rosselli > b. < sweet water > < a sweet spring > < sweet butter > c. of land d. < sweet crude oil > < sweet mine air > e. f. < gas or oil is sour or sweet, but you wouldn't find the sweet as tasty as that — Harry Botsford > 6. a. < a sweet ship > b. < for a high-up man like him he was a sweet hand at weeding — Edward Sheehy > < a sweet pilot > < a sweet fielder > c. of an archery bow d. of glass 7. a. < pleaded to be allowed to descend upon a community in my own sweet way — Cornelia Parker > < takes its own sweet time as it rolls lackadaisically across the prairie — Green Peyton > b. < it would be a sweet gag to use mass communications in order to denounce them — J.B.Priestley > < one sweet inferiority complex — Harvey Breit > Synonyms: < twilight, sweet with the smell of lilac and freshly turned earth — Corey Ford > < pleased at this sudden return to sweet reasonableness — C.G.D.Roberts > < has been very sweet. He wants to help, but of course there's nothing he can do — Louis Auchincloss > engaging may indicate power to attract favorable attention, sometimes by intriguing or charming characteristics < affectionate, cheerful, happy, his sweet and engaging personality drew all men's love — H.O.Taylor > < the most engaging human beings who ever harbored a sly smile — Charlton Laird > winning may suggest power to delight, charm, placate, or enamor < a quiet, self-possessed, and gracious young lady, of singularly winning manners, and clear and resolutely honest eyes — William Black > < simple as a child, with his gentle, winning voice and grave smile — Van Wyck Brooks > winsome may suggest any engaging quality; it may call up notions of blended comeliness, cheer, childlike nature, and open candor < remembered her childlike look, and winsome fanciful ways, and shy tremulous grace — Oscar Wilde > dulcet may apply to something gratifying, soothing, bland, and sweet < the voice … dulcet as the hum of heavy honeybees amid orange blossoms — Herman Wouk > • - sweet on II. III. < how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank — Shakespeare > IV. 1. a. < filling up on candy and other sweets — Carl Binger > < can cross the street and readily buy sweets at a store — Jane Nickerson > b. sweets plural, Britain c. Britain d. Britain < put a large sweet in her cheek — Elizabeth Taylor > < this is done by swallowing, or by chewing a sweet or gum — Before You Take Off > e. 2. < they see and smell and have their palates both for sweet and sour — Shakespeare > 3. < precious sweets which older writers have coveted and gained — Sinclair Lewis > < the sweets of life > < the sweets of office > 4. < you can always talk to me, you sweet — Susan Ertz > 5. a. archaic < the scent … makes faint with too much sweet — P.B.Shelley > b. sweets plural, archaic < a wilderness of sweets — John Milton > |
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