potpourri 的定义
- a mixture of dried petals of roses or other flowers with spices, kept in a jar for their fragrance.
- a musical medley.
- a collection of miscellaneous literary extracts.
- any mixture, especially of unrelated objects, subjects, etc.
potpourri 近义词
miscellany
更多potpourri例句
- Research suggests that although there may be a genetic component, resilience is a function of a potpourri of factors, not a must-have gene, trait or cultural determinant.
- The team’s spark of insight came when they realized that after three weeks, the cells began to branch out into a potpourri of three different cell types found in early human embryos—something rarely seen before.
- If that seems a cultural potpourri, that would be the point.
- He thought he detected a pleasant smell of herbs, like the potpourri his mother had in bowls in their house.
- Betty knows how to make that potpourri that Lloyd's Grandmother Amanthis always kept in the rose-jars in the drawing-room.
- It held garnered with loving faith the memories of another day, as a bowl of potpourri still holds the sun of long dead summers.
- The opera is a grand potpourri of waltz and polka motives and fresh, bright melodies.
- And the rose he married comes to him a shrivelled leaf of a potpourri heap.