单词 | vintage |
释义 | vin·tage I. 1. a. (1) < never did … the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage — Mary W. Shelley > < half bottles … of the 1947 vintage — New Yorker > (2) < the vintage flowed freely during the reception > (3) or vintage wine < several ordinary wines and a bottle of vintage > < sampled every vintage and kickshaw of the gourmet's art — S.J.Perelman > b. < the book is not of this season's vintage — Muna Lee > < was of the vintage of comfortably well-off intellectuals — Janet Flanner > 2. a. < nearly time for the annual vintage > b. < the vintage … is a time of gaiety and … hard work — P.M.Wagner > 3. a. < term of Edwardian vintage — New York Times Magazine > < a small coupé of rather ancient vintage — Leslie Charteris > b. < preserved … shark's fins of twenty years' vintage — Eve Langley > < many of us, of a certain vintage, have been forced to think back — John Mason Brown > II. transitive verb < if … a first growth is vintaged a little too late — H.J.Newman > intransitive verb < illustrations … of a winged Eros vintaging — Nelson Glueck > III. 1. a. (1) < prepared for the vintage activities in the vineyards > (2) < a vintage wine > — compare nonvintage b. < drink a health in vintage vodka > < turning leaves make fall a vintage season > c. < vintage comedy from the silent era — Arthur Knight > < collectors who … cherish vintage automobiles — Beverly Kelley > < an album of vintage tunes — Wilder Hobson > 2. a. < a vintage actress but still thin and chic — Janet Flanner > < failing to answer seventy-two vintage traffic tickets — Robert Rice > b. < vintage plays of no merit whatsoever — Wolcott Gibbs > < a rumpled tweed suit of vintage cut — Jacob Hay > 3. < vintage Shaw: a wise and winning comedy, beautifully played — Time > < seemed to be fine … but not absolutely first-rate vintage Old Vic — Mollie Panter-Downes > |
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