taste是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 the flavour of something, or the ability of a person or animal to recognize different flavours -- 味道；味覺

  • I love the taste of garlic. 我喜歡蒜味。

  • Olives are usually an acquired taste (= you only like them after you have become familiar with their taste). 橄欖的味道可能要慢慢習慣才會喜歡。

  • When you have a cold you often lose your sense of taste. 感冒的時候常常嘗不出味道。

  • She came home from Europe with a taste for art and the finer things in life. 她從歐洲回來後就喜歡上了藝術和享受生活中其他精美的東西。

  • Have a taste of the sauce and tell me if it needs salt. 嚐嚐醬汁，看看是否需要加鹽。

• 1 a person's approval of and liking for particular things -- （個人的）興趣，愛好

  • I'm not really into new cars - old vintage cars are more to my taste (= what I like). 我一向不怎麼喜歡新車——倒是更喜歡老式汽車。

  • He has terrible taste so you can probably imagine what his house looks like. 他的品味極差，你大概可以想像出他家是甚麼樣子。

  • His taste in clothes leaves a little to be desired. 他的著裝品味實在不怎麼樣。

  • I have expensive tastes (= I like expensive things). 我看來是喜歡奢華的東西。

• 2 a short experience of something -- 短暫的體驗

  • I had a taste of office work during the summer and that was enough. 夏天我體驗了一下在辦公室工作的滋味，可真夠我受的。

• 3 to put food or drink in your mouth to find out what flavour it has -- 嚐…的味道

  • Taste this sauce and tell me if it needs seasoning. 嚐嚐醬汁，看看要不要加佐料。

  • What is this? I've never tasted anything like it. 這究竟是甚麼東西？我從沒吃過這種東西。

  • This sauce tastes strange. 這種醬汁味道很怪。

  • This coffee tastes like dishwater! 這咖啡的味道簡直像洗碗水！

  • UK The bread tastes of onions. 這麵包有股洋蔥味。

• 4 to experience something for a short time -- （短暫）體驗，經歷，領略

  • Once you've tasted luxury it's very hard to settle for anything else. 你一旦體驗過奢侈的滋味，就很難將就了。