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单词 quintessentially
释义
quintessentially
adverb
formal
uk
/ˌkwɪn.tɪˈsen.ʃəl.i/us
/ˌkwɪn.tɪˈsen.ʃəl.i/
in a way that is the mosttypicalexampleor mostimportantpartof something:
Thepaintingis quintessentially British.
This is quintessentially amatterofforeignpolicy.
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  • Emotion is something wethinkof as quintessentiallyhuman.
  • Ifeelquintessentially myself in thisdress.
  • Shethoughtof theSuperBowlas quintessentially American.
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(Definition ofquintessentiallyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofquintessentially

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It belongs to a set ofquintessentiallymodern practices that represent physical and social phenomena in quantitative terms.
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Teachers, who have been seen by historians asquintessentiallypetit bourgeois, were nonetheless the beneficiaries of remarkable expressions of proletarian solidarity.
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They are thusquintessentiallymorphological in nature, rather than syntactic.
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As aquintessentiallyhuman art form, music requires the presence of both performer and listener.
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He is framed alternately as a figure of the past and as aquintessentiallymodern composer.
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In more general discussions about services for older people, however, those with dementia werequintessentially'others'.
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Underneath thisquintessentiallyminimalist rhythmic process of multiple cycles lies a harmonic structure.
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How was thequintessentially'democratic' public space, the museum, compromised by urban danger?
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The environment, beingquintessentiallya long-term concern, has tended to fall between cause and effect.
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This seeking for explanation and justification for action isquintessentiallyhuman.
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Phenomena such as these - namely, characteristics of actors and their actions - arequintessentiallypragmatic phenomena.
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Further, what it soquintessentiallyrepresents, a person who, characteristically, sings rather than speaks, became an operatic mainstay.
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News of the winning number for this ostensibly clandestine butquintessentiallypublic lottery certainly spread across the city by word of mouth, too.
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That circumstance isquintessentiallycosmopolitan, and it has come to be valued as such.
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Sufism isquintessentiallya way for adherents to vest their lives and the universe in which they live with meaning.
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