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sweet-and-sour

/sweet-n-souuhr, -sou-er/US // ˈswit nˈsaʊər, -ˈsaʊ ər //

酸甜可口,甜酸,酸甜苦辣,糖醋味

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : cooked with sugar and vinegar or lemon juice and often other seasonings.

Examples

  • As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

  • As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

  • The smell of grilled meat mixes with the exotic wafts of cinnamon tea served with a mush of sweet brown dessert.

  • She was even sweet to that smug ingrate Miss Bunting after she kept insulting everyone at dinner.

  • So just looking forward to taking our sweet ass time with this next one.

  • She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.

  • She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.

  • So after a few minutes I remarked to him, "Everything tastes very sweet out of this spoon!"

  • Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.

  • He turned to the gentle accents of his sweet Alice, breathed in a letter which had been wet with her grateful tears.

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