quintessence / kwɪnˈtɛs əns /

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quintessence 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. the pure and concentrated essence of a substance.
  2. the most perfect embodiment of something.
  3. the fifth essence or element, ether, supposed to be the constituent matter of the heavenly bodies, the others being air, fire, earth, and water.

quintessence 近义词

n. 名词 noun

essence, core

更多quintessence例句

  1. That, America, is the quintessence of naturally occurring British-cute.
  2. The actor is the quintessence of smooth, first as Remington Steele, then James Bond.
  3. In recent years, Stoner entered a category of which it soon became the quintessence.
  4. Yes, Holmes was the quintessence of the Victorian rationalism, “the most perfect and reasoning machine that the world had seen.”
  5. “Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot,” Lisette Model would write.
  6. Preserve this precious quintessence of mercury, which is exceedingly volatile, in a well-closed vessel for further use.
  7. This drama is the quintessence of all that Gorky has, up to this time, written on the "ex-man," whom he has thoroughly "explored."
  8. Only as a subscriber, possessing a numbered set of a limited edition, could one obtain the quintessence of literature.
  9. They are the quaint quintessence of conservatism, and will occupy youthful minds menaced by modernism.
  10. Ten beds, and only one occupied, by a freckled, tousled quintessence of fractiousness in a blue wrapper.