essence是什么意思,essence怎么用

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essence

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📰 外刊例句

In essence it is a shared, trusted, public ledger that everyone can inspect, but which no single user controls. 本质上它是一个共享的、可信的公共账目,每个人都可以查看它,但它不受单个用户的控制。

—— 《经济学人》

—— 《纽约时报》


📖 基本释义

[noun] the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, that determines its character
[名词] (尤指某个抽象)事物的决定其特色的内在本质或不可或缺的特质


💡 深入解读

Essence 是一个在化妆品上面常见的单词,用来指从花草等植物中或其他物质中提取出来的“香精、精油、香料、香泽”,比如香草香精(vanilla essence)。该词源自拉丁语essentia(存在、本质),14世纪末进入英语后最初指“三位一体(圣父、圣子及圣灵合为上帝)的本体”。等到了17世纪中期开始发展出现在的基本含义指“本质、实质、要素、精髓”,尤指某个抽象事物的决定其特色的内在本质或不可或缺的特质,就好比花草体内的香精决定了其各自独特的气味那般,

比如:

His paintings captured the essence of France. But his attempts to peddle his paintings around London's tiny gallery scene ended in a fiasco.他的画描绘出了法国的神韵。但他到伦敦小画廊兜售自己的画作,结果却以大败告终。

In essence, advertisements attempt to project a latent meaning behind an overt message.从这个概念出发,英语中既常用 in essence 这个正式习语表示“本质上、实质上”,即从根本上来讲,不考虑周边细节,比如:从本质上说,广告的意图是以公开的信息传达隐含之意。

He railroaded the reforms through because time was of the essence.也常用 be of the essence 这个正式习语表示“极其重要、必不可少”,比如:由于时间至关重要,他强制性地推行了改革。


📚 名著用例

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love? 这还不能算是尽心尽意吗?宁可为了一个人而得罪大家,这难道不是恋爱场上最可贵的地方?

— 出自《19世纪英国小说家简·奥斯丁(Jane Austen)的代表作《傲慢与偏见》( Pride and Prejudice )。》


🔍 同近义词

  • crux: the decisive or most important point at issue
  • kernel: the central or most important part of something
  • quintessence: the aspect of something regarded as the intrinsic and central constituent of its character
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