| 单词 | quintessential |
| 释义 | quintessential adjective formaluk/ˌkwɪn.tɪˈsen.ʃəl/us/ˌkwɪn.tɪˈsen.ʃəl/being the mosttypicalexampleor mostimportantpartof something: 最典型的；最本质的Sheep'smilkcheeseis the quintessential Corsicancheese.绵羊奶酪是最典型的科西嘉菜。 Typifying, illustrating and exemplifying
quintessential| American Dictionaryquintessential adjective[not gradable] us/ˌkwɪn·təˈsen·ʃəl/representingthe mostperfector mosttypicalexampleof something: a quintessentialsmalltown a quintessentialathlete quintessentiallyadverb[not gradable]us/ˌkwɪn·təˈsen·ʃə·li/ She is quintessentially American. Examplesofquintessentialquintessential Helping others whom one has assumed no prior obligation to help is thequintessentialway to make anyone's existence significant to some degree. From theCambridge English Corpus Her poem's stammering, frayed edges seek to chart a ' 'quintessentialclarity of inarticulation ' ' (95). From theCambridge English Corpus Unquestionably, the development of population as an object of study owes its genesis to thatquintessentialsign of modernity: the modern census. From theCambridge English Corpus Organized labor was aquintessentialaging social movement by 1972. From theCambridge English Corpus Thequintessential' stationary rebels ' are secessionist\\regionalist movements. From theCambridge English Corpus It sets the scene for somequintessentialentities such as ' scientifically defined ' social classes, international capitalism, and colonial bourgeoisie. From theCambridge English Corpus Physics, after all, is aquintessential^ modernist endeavor, at least as ordinarily understood. From theCambridge English Corpus The traditional altars that used to be thequintessentiallocation for praying are never used. From theCambridge English Corpus This point was closely related to the second - that mathematics is thequintessentialexample of a well-grounded science. From theCambridge English Corpus During the first half of this century, popular magazines regularly referred to this country as thequintessentialbanana republic, and with good reason. From theCambridge English Corpus It was an individual experience of aquintessentialelement of self moral cultivation for the salvation of not only self, but also of society. From theCambridge English Corpus What we have here is thequintessentialforbidden trade-off. From theCambridge English Corpus For this purpose wild species are the obvious choice, since in the natural environment dormancy plays aquintessentialecological role in the survival of species. From theCambridge English Corpus Thequintessentialfinding of mitral regurgitation is a systolic murmur loudest at the apex. From theCambridge English Corpus We have undertaken to address cognition and memory not as the location of thequintessentialself but as simultaneously individual, social, collective and relational. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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