zest
zest 英 [zest] 美 [zɛst]
n. 风味；热心；强烈的兴趣 vt. 给…调味
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- Zest is a kind of zeal or enthusiasm. If you've got a zest for something, you put your whole heart and soul into it. Dancers who have great zest leap, kick, and soar their way around the stage with a kind of joyful energy.
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- n. 风味；热心；强烈的兴趣
- vt. 给…调味
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1. We entered into the sport with zest.
我们热心参加这项运动。
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2. The book was written with zest, and if possible it should be read that way.
这是一部伴随热情写成的书，最好也应该带着热情去读它。
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3. She thereupon turned round and lifted her face to his, and remained like a marble term while he imprinted a kiss upon her cheek-half perfunctorily, half as if zest had not yet quite died out.
于是她转过身去，对着他仰起脸来，就像大理石雕成的一座界神①一样，让他在她的脸颊上吻了一下——他一半是敷衍，一半好像他的热情还没有完全熄灭。
- zest (n.) 1670s, from French zeste "piece of orange or lemon peel used as a flavoring," of unknown origin. Sense of "thing that adds flavor" is 1709; that of "keen enjoyment" first attested 1791.
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