redolent
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈɹɛd.ə.lənt/
美 /ˈɹɛd.ə.lənt/|/ˈɹed.ə.lənt/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
- Fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.
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Having the smell of the article in question.
— Most of the articles were home-made; the bread, the yellow butter, as golden as the cups to which it has given name; the thickest cream, and a honeycomb redolent of the thyme which even then echoed with the hum of the bees.
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Suggestive or reminiscent.
— But, in the country, the green fields are so joyous, the pure air so fresh, the blue sky so clear; the fine old trees, redolent of earth's loveliest mythology, when the dryades peopled their green shadows;...
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词源
From Middle English redolent (first attested in 1400), from Old French redolent, from Latin redolentem, present participle of redoleō (“to emit a scent”), from red- + oleō (“to smell”).
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