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词汇 savoured
释义 savoured
past simple and past participle ofsavour
savour
verb[ T ]
UK(USsavor)uk /ˈseɪ.vər/ us /ˈseɪ.vɚ/
to enjoy food or an experience slowly, in order to enjoy it as much as possible: 细品,享用(食物)
It was the first chocolate he'd tasted for over a year, so he savoured every mouthful.这是他一年多来吃到的第一块巧克力,因此他每一口都细细品尝。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to get pleasure from something
enjoyEnjoy your meal!
enjoy yourselfHe's enjoying himself at his job.
likeI like hiking a lot.
loveAfter working in the garden, I love a good soak in the tub.
relishJonathan always relishes a challenge.
lap upHe lapped up all the attention they gave him.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Taking pleasure in something
bask
bask in something
bask/bathe in reflected gloryidiom
be a glutton for punishmentidiom
be a great one for somethingidiom
gad about/around (somewhere)
get off on something
get over something/someone
get your jolliesidiom
glory in something
glutton
live it upidiom
luxuriate in something
masochism
masochistic
masochistically
savour
slaver
wallow
whoop it upidiom

Phrasal verb


savour of something

Examples of savoured


savoured

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Architecture made of fine ingredients designed to be purposeful, durable, savoured and enjoyed.
The later, protestant chronicles may well have savoured this unusual metaphor for her burdens of office, but its initial appearance is still puzzling.
Accept these limitations, however, if that is what they are, and there is much to be savoured here.
Jackson has a nice turn of phrase and produces epigrams to be savoured.
This is a chapter to be savoured.
The replies savoured too much of the doctor administering drugs to a patient whose life can be saved only by an operation.
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I noted that his adulation of the hereditary peerage savoured of the defence of illegitimate legitimacy.
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He thought it was not constitutional; it savoured rather of secrecy and diplomacy—a little old-fashioned perhaps.
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I got the impression from them that they felt and that their members felt that it savoured of charity.
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If that happens, it will indeed be dust in our mouths, and it will be a taste that this country has savoured all too often.
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I hope he will understand that anything that savoured of an attack upon him was not in any spirit of hostility.
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It was a moment to be savoured by everyone.
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Even by ministerial standards that savoured of high-handedness.
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I have sat over there myself and savoured the fruits and pleasures of making such speeches as his.
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He said he was afraid of doing anything large, anything which savoured of being rash in land settlement.
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