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sumptuously

/suhmp-choo-uhs/US // ˈsʌmp tʃu əs //UK // (ˈsʌmptjʊəs) //

奢华的,奢华地,奢华,饕餮盛宴

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : entailing great expense, as from choice materials, fine work, etc.; costly: a sumptuous residence.
    • : luxuriously fine or large; lavish; splendid: a sumptuous feast.

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Examples

  • Broder’s second novel combines her singular style with adventures of the calorie- and climax-filled kind, sumptuous fillings surrounded by perfectly baked plot.

  • The impetus for this production — enhanced by Jonathan Tunick’s sumptuous original orchestrations and 15 musicians under the baton of Jon Kalbfleisch — is not experimental, or even archival.

  • It’s a tiny family-run joint where locals, seated cheek by jowl, eat sumptuous meals.

  • Taylor recalls a tour group that created an elaborate “almost soap opera” storyline around a miniature of a sumptuous Art Deco jewelry store, where a tiny clerk talks to two customers beneath a lit chandelier made of 15,800 beads.

  • Weller made the Style Council a lush Amazon of uniquely sumptuous schmaltz.

  • Christmas morning, we take seats in the sumptuously appointed living room of a top Ankawa official, the silver-haired Femi Mattih.

  • In every instance a gift was expected from the visitor, and as a consequence the monks fared sumptuously.

  • He was sumptuously buried in Kensal Green, where a marble pedestal carries his portrait and his epitaph.

  • The pheasants and the partridges arrived in time, and we lunched off them sumptuously to-day; many thanks.

  • We arrived 489 at the camp, to the great joy of our brave lads, who immediately feasted sumptuously.

  • The vessel appears to have been armed for war and sumptuously fitted for a pleasure-yacht, yet was ultimately used to carry corn.