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词汇 redolent
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Definition of redolent in English:

redolent

adjective ˈrɛdəl(ə)ntˈrɛdlənt
  • 1redolent of/withStrongly reminiscent or suggestive of.

    使人很容易联想起(某事)的

    names redolent of history and tradition

    使人联想起历史和传统的名字。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The very word, redolent of dusty, don't touch displays inside glass cases, would once have brought howls of protests from children simply wanting to enjoy an afternoon out.
    • Up here we can offer shopping in a city still redolent of history with an edge.
    • Lower Manhattan, first home of successive waves of American immigrants, is rich in such venues, redolent of social history.
    • Enormous in magnitude, audacious in its execution and redolent of the most serious dishonesty.
    • They are strong, redolent of the dignity of human life, and contrary to many images of female nudity.
    • This is an ambitious 18-track programme piece redolent of the history, mystery, and eloquent loneliness in the Border hills of the composer's childhood.
    • Could there ever be a venue more redolent of York's history than the Barbican?
    • This outcrop must remind him of his present surroundings, a place redolent of mythology and ancient magic, I suggest.
    • The grips and spur trigger are redolent of the 19th century, while the overall appearance suggests substantially better quality and ruggedness than many examples dating from that period.
    • I remember the covers, too, evocative old-style paintings of girls in clothing redolent of a bygone era, so unlike what we wore in the 1960s that it added another layer of exotic mystery.
    • Travellers arriving back at Gatwick last Sunday morning encountered the kind of industrial disruption more redolent of the winter of discontent than Britain's modern and flexible economy.
    • The Derby is redolent of tradition and grandeur.
    • The description is so redolent of history as to be a constitutional precedent in itself.
    • By yesterday morning the temperature was still firmly below zero but a rare spirit of solidarity and optimism, redolent of the heady days of eastern Europe's liberation in 1989, had taken hold.
    • The materials are redolent of impoverishment.
    • To cap it all, the building's architecture is redolent of the classical Greek culture that originally founded the concept of gymnasia and held physical exercises in the very highest esteem.
    • These tubes and shapes are redolent of the exterior world, yet they are also evocative of our skin, our interior bodies, our senses.
    • There is an imbalance in power in this proposed relationship between employer and employee that is redolent of the situation of women in the workforce before they acquired full political rights.
    • The place is redolent of Viennese history as the city government's web site points out.
    • The last 24 hours was redolent of the wider campaign, uncertain, fraught, divisive, full of brinkmanship with deeply unreliable signals emerging from both sides.
    Synonyms
    evocative, suggestive, reminiscent, remindful
    1. 1.1literary Strongly smelling of.
      〈诗/文〉有…强烈气味的
      the church was old, dark, and redolent of incense

      教堂古老、阴暗,有浓浓的焚香味。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Apparently, everyone at the Spectator is interested in poetry, ‘just as we are interested in the smell of our own armpits, because they are uniquely redolent of ourselves’.
      • And the whole town smoulders damply under a haze of burnt burger, singed sausage, and evaporated candy floss, all slightly sticky and redolent of the smell of pink bubble gum.
      • It was redolent of a smell that could only have come from the smithy of Uncle Hansa's expertise.
      • I have a fondness for the stories of the newsrooms of the past, filled with smoke, redolent with the smell of dirty paste pots, the sound of the bulletin bell on the wire service machines.
      • And we bought fresh, succulent oysters redolent with the scent of the sea.
  • 2archaic, literary Fragrant or sweet-smelling.

    〈古或诗/文〉香的,芬芳的

    a rich, inky, redolent wine

    色深味浓的美酒。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • My normally reserved father turns into a rapacious gourmand around the steaming, redolent pot, reliving his Saskatchewan youth by heaping his plate.
    • The redolent smell of their Chanel No.5 perfume hit me like a blast before they even reached us.
    • No radio, no TV, just the meal, the New Yorker, and the soft high whine of Jasper breathing through his nose, coveting the redolent sausage.
    • No blooming season is more redolent than spring, so it makes perfect olfactory sense to smell the flowers now.
    • Our mouths watered at the redolent smell of sweet roasted meat.
    Synonyms
    smelling of, reeking of
    scented with, fragrant with, perfumed with

Derivatives

  • redolence

  • noun ˈrɛdəl(ə)nsˈrɛd(ə)ləns
    • All thoughts of coffee and her dad were gone, and she was greeted with the redolence of vanilla.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He turned around, his eyes searching hers in that way he had, their crimson depths revealing nothing but a deathly shimmer and a redolence of something lost.
      • Throughout the various locations for this interpersonal quest are mandalas, murals to spiritual anarchy and role-playing redolence that serve as an omen for the shape of things to possibly come.
      • The lamb fillet did indeed have the redolence of India, while the duck managed to retain its own flavour, enhanced by the Grand Marnier and pinenuts.
      • The order came after repeated complaints from residents, yet the exact source of the repulsive redolence was never exactly revealed.
  • redolently

  • adverb

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'fragrant'): from Old French, or from Latin redolent- 'giving out a strong smell', from re(d)- 'back, again' + olere 'to smell'.

Definition of redolent in US English:

redolent

adjectiveˈredləntˈrɛdlənt
  • 1redolent of/withpredicative Strongly reminiscent or suggestive of (something)

    使人很容易联想起(某事)的

    names redolent of history and tradition

    使人联想起历史和传统的名字。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They are strong, redolent of the dignity of human life, and contrary to many images of female nudity.
    • I remember the covers, too, evocative old-style paintings of girls in clothing redolent of a bygone era, so unlike what we wore in the 1960s that it added another layer of exotic mystery.
    • Travellers arriving back at Gatwick last Sunday morning encountered the kind of industrial disruption more redolent of the winter of discontent than Britain's modern and flexible economy.
    • Could there ever be a venue more redolent of York's history than the Barbican?
    • These tubes and shapes are redolent of the exterior world, yet they are also evocative of our skin, our interior bodies, our senses.
    • Up here we can offer shopping in a city still redolent of history with an edge.
    • To cap it all, the building's architecture is redolent of the classical Greek culture that originally founded the concept of gymnasia and held physical exercises in the very highest esteem.
    • This outcrop must remind him of his present surroundings, a place redolent of mythology and ancient magic, I suggest.
    • The description is so redolent of history as to be a constitutional precedent in itself.
    • The grips and spur trigger are redolent of the 19th century, while the overall appearance suggests substantially better quality and ruggedness than many examples dating from that period.
    • The materials are redolent of impoverishment.
    • Lower Manhattan, first home of successive waves of American immigrants, is rich in such venues, redolent of social history.
    • This is an ambitious 18-track programme piece redolent of the history, mystery, and eloquent loneliness in the Border hills of the composer's childhood.
    • By yesterday morning the temperature was still firmly below zero but a rare spirit of solidarity and optimism, redolent of the heady days of eastern Europe's liberation in 1989, had taken hold.
    • There is an imbalance in power in this proposed relationship between employer and employee that is redolent of the situation of women in the workforce before they acquired full political rights.
    • The very word, redolent of dusty, don't touch displays inside glass cases, would once have brought howls of protests from children simply wanting to enjoy an afternoon out.
    • The last 24 hours was redolent of the wider campaign, uncertain, fraught, divisive, full of brinkmanship with deeply unreliable signals emerging from both sides.
    • Enormous in magnitude, audacious in its execution and redolent of the most serious dishonesty.
    • The place is redolent of Viennese history as the city government's web site points out.
    • The Derby is redolent of tradition and grandeur.
    Synonyms
    evocative, suggestive, reminiscent, remindful
    1. 1.1literary Strongly smelling of.
      〈诗/文〉有…强烈气味的
      the church was old, dark, and redolent of incense

      教堂古老、阴暗,有浓浓的焚香味。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • And the whole town smoulders damply under a haze of burnt burger, singed sausage, and evaporated candy floss, all slightly sticky and redolent of the smell of pink bubble gum.
      • And we bought fresh, succulent oysters redolent with the scent of the sea.
      • I have a fondness for the stories of the newsrooms of the past, filled with smoke, redolent with the smell of dirty paste pots, the sound of the bulletin bell on the wire service machines.
      • It was redolent of a smell that could only have come from the smithy of Uncle Hansa's expertise.
      • Apparently, everyone at the Spectator is interested in poetry, ‘just as we are interested in the smell of our own armpits, because they are uniquely redolent of ourselves’.
  • 2literary, archaic Fragrant or sweet-smelling.

    〈古或诗/文〉香的,芬芳的

    a rich, inky, redolent wine

    色深味浓的美酒。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • No radio, no TV, just the meal, the New Yorker, and the soft high whine of Jasper breathing through his nose, coveting the redolent sausage.
    • My normally reserved father turns into a rapacious gourmand around the steaming, redolent pot, reliving his Saskatchewan youth by heaping his plate.
    • No blooming season is more redolent than spring, so it makes perfect olfactory sense to smell the flowers now.
    • Our mouths watered at the redolent smell of sweet roasted meat.
    • The redolent smell of their Chanel No.5 perfume hit me like a blast before they even reached us.
    Synonyms
    smelling of, reeking of

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘fragrant’): from Old French, or from Latin redolent- ‘giving out a strong smell’, from re(d)- ‘back, again’ + olere ‘to smell’.

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