| 单词 | essence |
| 释义 | es·sence 1. a. archaic b. (1) (2) < a picture of a tree should represent the essence of the tree — its ultimate or basic reality, that which makes it what it is, the thing-in-itself or in its intrinsic nature — Hunter Mead > < succeeds in conveying completely the cruel essence of loneliness — Arthur Knight > < came to the conclusion that the essence of heat was motion — S.F.Mason > < everything that one has seen or heard or thought or felt leaves a deposit that never filters entirely through the essence of mind — Ellen Glasgow > < not life in its humdrum, day-by-day existence, but life in its essence, exciting, meaningful, important — L.D.Rubin > also < what is individual, what is the peculiar essence of the man — T.S.Eliot > < the biographical story of its main character, not in the bulk of its million-fold detail but in its essence — Irving Stone > < the essence of liberalism — freedom of thought and inquiry, freedom of discussion and criticism — M.R.Cohen > < many of our people, … have forgotten the essence of Americanism — George Sokolsky > — see nominal essence, real essence (3) c. (1) (2) 2. obsolete 3. 4. < the enthusiasm of its personnel is the essence and life of any enterprise > < criticism that will keep in mind that the essence of a performance is the music as it was written — Saturday Review > < the camera work, which is the essence of the coverage … was a brilliant job — Gilbert Seldes > < a country where controversy is the essence of politics — Clifton Daniel > < the trend toward a herd state of which the essence is the denial of supreme value to the human individual — E.A.Mowrer > < the health of our people is the very essence of our vitality, our strength, and our progress as a nation — D.D.Eisenhower > 5. < the same true characterization which makes each person in the story an essence with whom spectators will identify themselves — Current Biography > < own little reviews tranquilly engaged in their endless and placid pursuit of poetry as a timeless essence — William Barrett > 6. a. (1) (2) < the rice and shrimp in Venice, which breathed with the unmistakable essence of garlic — Horace Sutton > b. (1) (2) < impregnate it with the volatile essence of their souls — J.G.Frazer > c. < a special essence of authority — S.N.Behrman > < captured in words something of the pattern of life, its color or essence — Ernest Beaglehole > < the drenched condition of the two women seemed to draw into that little room a desolate melancholy essence composed of fallen leaves, muddy cart ruts, and clammy mist — J.C.Powys > 7. a. < it is the very essence of Machiavelli that in politics there is neither good nor evil, of a moral kind — Irving Kristol > < the essence of Scotland — highlands and lowlands, blue lochs and swift brown streams, grouse moors, tidy farmlands and wild sea cliffs — Alice Campbell > specifically < what he could do superbly was to state a case or extract an essence in a few clear and compelling words — R.H.Rovere > < appellate argument is the most exacting and concentrated work … for it involves the presentation of the essence of a long trial in an hour or less — A.T.Vanderbilt > < the discernment and understanding with which he penetrates to the heart and essence of the problem — Margaret E. Hall > b. < speak of his paintings in terms of what they consider his Gallic essences — his sensuousness, his economy in putting his pictures into focus, his infinitely civilized feeling for color and the refinement of line — Janet Flanner > c. < he believes that deceit and mistrust are the essence of human relationships — Bergen Evans > < attempts to capture the essence of our twenty-four-dollar island through extreme close-ups of thirty or more representative New York people — James Kelly > < managed to combine the essence of jazz, mountain music, and New England church music into one — Saturday Review > d. < such attention to appearances and details rather than to true substance went to the very essence of the struggle — Time > < this takes us to the essence of national strategy — H.H.Arnold & I.C.Eaker > < here is the ethical essence of the treaty — the common resolve to preserve, strengthen, and make understood the very basis of tolerance, restraint, and freedom — Dean Acheson > 8. a. (1) (2) (3) b. (1) (2) < essence of peppermint > (3) < pineapple essence > (4) < pepsin essence > 9. < it is an essence, a distillation, the very best of all our past reduced, not to a list of physical sights, but to a single emotion — Jerome Weidman > < this spot is the heart and essence of the Green mountains — Carl Brandt > < the heroine who, in the hands of less eminent novelists, appeared to be the essence of sentimentality — C.W.Cunnington > • - in essence - of the essence |
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