Spice

(noun.) any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food.

(noun.) aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative.

(verb.) make more interesting or flavorful; 'Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer'.

埃迪校对

• I can't bear him—and yet, continued Helena reflectively, with a certain spice of malice, there is something nice about him. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• One of the maidens presented a silver cup, containing a rich mixture of wine and spice, which Rowena barely put to her lips. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The Dutch still continue to exclude all other European nations from any direct trade to their spice islands. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The best of us have a spice of perversity in us, especially when we are young and in love. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Oh, I don't deny he had a spice of the Roylands temper, but as to ambition and enterprise, he might as well have been born a carrot. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• It smells of spice and sugar, but I can't taste it; your wrist is so stiff, and you are so stingy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• At length down he came, with an unstable step and a strong flavour of wine and spices about his person. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I think I shall trade, said he, leaning back in his chair, to the East Indies, for silks, shawls, spices, dyes, drugs, and precious woods. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I hate tea and silk and spices, and every sort of rubbish his old ships bring, and I don't care how soon they go to the bottom when I own them. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• They have wine and spices and fair bread; and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• If you gave up your highly-spiced dishes, your strong wines, your late hours, your breathing of poisonous air, you would be as healthy as I am. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I expected that the spiced odors of Araby were going to steal over my senses now, but they did not. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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