gourmet
gourmet 英 [ˈgʊəmeɪ] 美 [ˈgʊrmeɪ]
n. 美食家 phrase. 菜肴精美的
名词复数:gourmets
- That guy over there correctly identifying the dozen spices used in the meal he's eating? He’s likely a gourmet, someone who knows a lot about fine food.
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- n. 美食家
- phrase. 菜肴精美的
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1. Meals in the dining cars, however – while not always of gourmet quality – are a social highlight of the journey.
在餐车里用餐，尽管食物够不上美食家的品质，却是旅途上社交的好机会。
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2. Five Star Butter Co. previously only sold to gourmet kitchens and restaurant chefs, but now their high-end butter is available for home delivery.
五星黄油公司原来只向美食家和饭店大厨供应产品，但是现在普通住户也可以够买他的高级黄油。
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3. If you were an entrepreneur, and were told that bottled water, gourmet coffee and organic foods would be megatrends before they were, would you have considered them as profit opportunities?
如果你是个企业家，并且能够预先得知瓶装水、美食家咖啡和有机食品将会卷起一波狂潮，你会不会在这些潜在盈利点上多加考虑呢？
- gourmet (n.) "connoisseur in eating and drinking," 1820, from French gourmet, altered (by influence of Middle French gourmant "glutton") from Old French groume, originally "wine-taster, wine merchant's servant" (in 13c. "a lad generally"), a word of uncertain origin. As an adjective from 1900. Compare groom (n.1). For sense distinction, see gourmand.
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