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amuse-bouche

/ah-mooz-boosh; French a-myz-boosh/US // ɑˈmuzˈbuʃ; French aˌmüzˈbuʃ //UK // French (amyzbuʃ) //

小菜一碟,小吃,小食堂,小吃店

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural a·muse-bouches, a·muse-bouche.

    • : a small appetizer as served, usually without charge, in a restaurant.

Examples

  • The purpose of art,” Bemelmans once said, “is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

  • A purse can impress and intimidate, bewilder, berate, or amuse.

  • The Embassy produced a short video in advance of the trip, which, in the spirit of our times, is meant to both inform and amuse.

  • His masters would then amuse themselves by pelting him with bones.

  • Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork—reading, writing, thinking—can.

  • It did not amuse me, nor, so far as I could discern, was Monsieur de Tressan greatly taken with it.

  • Mais c'est chose digne de memoire que cet homme mourant avoit touiours le sacr nom de Iesvs en la bouche.

  • You think that if a man's charming, that's the end of him, and that all he's good for is to amuse a few old ladies at a tea party.

  • When he was in a good humour he used to amuse himself by saying, 'It's the first time a pipe has changed into a shoe.'

  • Ce gage d'amitié plus qu'un autre me touche: Un serrement de main vaut dix serments de bouche.