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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- flavour ['fleɪvə]
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1.
n
taste perceived in food or liquid in the mouth
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2.
n
a substance added to food, etc, to impart a specific taste
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3.
n
a distinctive quality or atmosphere; suggestion
- a poem with a Shakespearean flavour
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4.
n
a type or variety
- various flavours of graphical interface
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5.
n
[physics]
a property of quarks that enables them to be differentiated into six types: up, down, strange, charm, bottom (or beauty), and top (or truth)
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6.
vt.
[tr]
to impart a flavour, taste, or quality to
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7.
vt.
[Etymology]
C14: from Old French flaour, from Late Latin fl
a tor (unattested) bad smell, breath, from Latin fla re to blow
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1.
n
taste perceived in food or liquid in the mouth
Examples
- The herbs add flavour.
- 香料增添特殊风味。 → add
- music with an African flavour
- 具有非洲风情的音乐 → flavour
- a poem with a Shakespearean flavour → flavour
- a fulsome flavour → fulsome
- a musk flavour → musk
- 富有特色的场景
- scene with special features of its own; scene with a distinctive flavour → 场景
- 茶叶与化妆品放在一起就会串味儿。
- Tea stored close to cosmetics will become tainted in flavour. → 串味儿
- 家乡风味
- the pleasing taste of the cooking of one's native place; local flavour → 风味
- 京味小吃
- snacks of Beijing flavour → 京味
- 这个戏的京味儿很浓。
- The play is rich in Beijing ambience (or flavour). → 京味
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