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单词 yeasty
释义 yeasty
\-tē, -ti\ adjective
(-er/-est)
1. : of, consisting of, or resembling yeast : having the froth of yeast or one suggesting it
 < a yeasty froth covered the mash — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall >
 < the puddles … foamed with a yeasty scum — Ellen Glasgow >
2.
 a. : turbulent with immaturity, incompleteness, or youth : not yet settled or formed
  < those yeasty years between childhood and maturity — P.E.More >
  < when our American world was young and yeasty — Catherine D. Bowen >
 b.
  (1) : pregnant with future developments : full of the signs of things to come : churning with growth
   < the journalism of that yeasty decade furnished the springs of modern news techniques — F.L.Mott >
  (2) : marked by deep or massive ferment : alive with the processes of change
   < this is a yeasty field in which circumstances keep altering cases — R.M.Yoder >
   < the yeasty darkness at the mind's base — Bernard DeVoto >
 c. : full of vitality, initiative, or resource : ebullient, exuberant
  < the reporters were yeasty Bohemians — Bruce Catton >
  < the yeasty ardor of the famous Old Odessa merchants — Esther & Joseph Riwkin >
  < yeasty and mercurial liberals — Reporter >
 d. : marked by frothiness or triviality : frivolous
  < yeasty chatter >
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