| 词组 | delicious |
| 释义 | delicious /dɪˈlɪʃəs/ adjective very pleasant to taste or smellnounsdelicious food The restaurant serves delicious food at surprisingly reasonable prices.a delicious meal/lunch/dinner Thanks for a delicious meal.a delicious dish Our recipes will show you ways of creating simple and delicious dishes.a delicious smell The delicious smell of apple pie was coming from the kitchen.a delicious taste/flavour Fresh basil adds a delicious flavour when used in salads.a delicious recipe You’ll find lots of delicious recipes in this week’s magazine.verbstaste delicious Blueberries are good for your health and they taste delicious.smell/look delicious The pizza smells delicious. | Those apples look delicious.sound delicious Everything on the menu sounded delicious.adverbsabsolutely delicious The chocolate cake was absolutely delicious. Don’t say very delicious.THESAURUS: delicious tastyfood | meal | dish | morsel | treat if food is tasty, it has a good strong taste. Tasty is more informal than delicious: There is plenty of tasty food to choose from. | He can make a tasty meal using just a few vegetables. | Baked apple and almonds is a very tasty dish. | The mother bird was holding a tasty morsel in her beak (=small piece of delicious food). | You can cook the pears in chocolate to make a tasty treat. | I liked the onion soup – it was really tasty. mouth-wateringaroma | food | dish | selection | variety | sauce looking or smelling delicious: There was a mouth-watering aroma coming from the kitchen (=a delicious smell). | They offer mouth-watering food that is full of goodness. | The chef had prepared a selection of mouth-watering dishes. | There was a mouth-watering selection of cakes. | France makes hundreds of cheeses, in a mouth-watering variety of shapes, textures, and tastes. | The ice cream was covered in a mouth-watering chocolate sauce. appetizingfood | meal | colour appetizing food looks or smells good to eat. Appetizing is often used in negative sentences: The hospital food didn’t look very appetizing. | You should be able to prepare a healthy appetizing meal in ten minutes. | The stew was an appetizing golden colour. juicyorange | peach | melon | strawberry | pineapple | tomato | meat | steak juicy fruit or meat contains a lot of juice and tastes good: The oranges are lovely and juicy. | I picked some juicy tomatoes from the garden. | The meat was juicy and tender. | They served us a big juicy steak. succulentmeat | pork | beef | chicken | fruit | peach | pear | flesh | flavour succulent fruit or meat contains a lot of juice and tastes good: The succulent meat melted in his mouth. | The tree produces small succulent fruit in August. | She bit into the succulent flesh of the chicken. | The guests loved the succulent flavour of the tender meat.Succulent or juicy?Succulent is more formal than juicy and is mainly used in written descriptions. You use succulent when emphasizing the pleasure something gives you when you put it in your mouth and bite or suck on it. You use juicy when saying that fruit or steak contains a lot of juice.You can say that food melts in your mouth (=it is very soft and delicious): The delicate butter pastry melts in your mouth. You can also say that food is bursting with flavour (=it is delicious and has a lot of flavour): The cherry tomatoes are bursting with flavour. |
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