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quintessential

/kwin-tuh-sen-shuhl/US // ˌkwɪn təˈsɛn ʃəl //UK // (ˌkwɪntɪˈsɛnʃəl) //

典型的,最典型的,精髓,最典型的是

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of the pure and essential essence of something: the quintessential Jewish delicatessen.
    • : of or relating to the most perfect embodiment of something: the quintessential performance of the Brandenburg Concertos.

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Examples

  • While they are hygienic and offer a means for restaurants to save on staffing costs, many people regard chatting with a server as a quintessential part of going out for a meal.

  • The quintessential espresso—Café Bustelo have been at it for almost a century.

  • For instance, “fast-moving race cars with obstacles coming at them at lightning-quick speeds,” requiring vehicles to “joust and maneuver” through the track, represent a “quintessential edge-case scenario,” Peak said.

  • Launched in 2014, GMB is the quintessential free marketing tool for local businesses.

  • While this is not a quintessential example of brand awareness through guest posting, it is a classical example of product growth tied with the popularity of the product owner.

  • Ignoring people you hooked up with at Shooters when encountering them on campus is a quintessential Duke experience.

  • But in reality he is the quintessential example of how Washington corrupts.

  • Santorini is an island of churches: nearly 400 of them, many topped with the quintessential blue dome.

  • No wonder that of all the Bradys, it is the quintessential old maid who we miss the most.

  • What, in your view, makes a quintessential Sony Classics release?

  • If you really represented the country in its government, would you not get its partisanship in a quintessential form?

  • He had a delicacy, when he chose to be delicate, which is quintessential, and a vigour which is thoroughly manly.

  • Such pain, such pleasure, is the quintessential attenuated "matter" with which our soul clothes itself.

  • This good man Osborn, whom I have never seen or heard of before, seems to be quintessential of all that side.

  • Does not this, indeed, form the very quintessential attribute of good government?