( <美> flavor)
1
- the distinctive quality of a particular food or drink as perceived by the taste buds（食物或饮料的独特）口味, 滋味：
the crisps come in pizza and barbecue flavours
这些炸薯片有比萨和烧烤两种口味
mass noun mozzarella cheese adds flavour to any salad.意大利白干奶酪能使任何沙拉口味更佳。
1.1
- chiefly US a substance used to alter or enhance the taste of food or drink; a flavouring〈主美〉调味品, 调料。
2
- in sing. figurative an indication of the essential character of something〈喻〉特点; 风味; 韵味; 风格：
the extracts give a flavour of the content and tone of the conversation.
选段活灵活现地表现了交谈的内容和语气。
2.1
- in sing. figurative a distinctive quality of something, especially one reminiscent of something else〈喻〉（尤指令人联想起其他东西的某种事物的）特质, 特色：
this year's seminars have a European flavour.
今年的研讨会具有欧洲特色。
3
- a kind, variety, or sort种类, 品种：
various flavours of firewall are evolving.
各式各样的防火墙正在逐步出现。
4
- Physicis a quantized property of quarks which differentiates them into at least six varieties (up, down, charmed, strange, top, bottom)【物理】味。比较COLOUR.
with obj.
1- alter or enhance the taste of (food or drink) by adding a particular ingredient给（食物, 饮料）调味, 加味于：
they use a wide range of spices to flavour their foods
他们采用许多不同的香料来给食物调味
chunks of chicken flavoured with herbs.
用多种芳草调味的鸡块。
1.1
- figurative give a distinctive quality to〈喻〉赋予…特殊风味, 使特别：
the faint exasperation that had flavoured her tone.
使她音调别具风趣的那一丝愠怒。
短语
flavour of the month
- a person or thing that enjoys a short period of great popularity昙花一现的风云人物：
don't opt for a system that's flavour of the month.
不要选择那种只能一时风光的体制。
派生词
flavourful
adjectiveflavourless
adjectiveflavoursome
adjective词源
late Middle English （in the sense'fragrance, aroma'）： from Old French flaor, perhaps based on a blend of Latin flatus 'blowing' and foetor 'stench'; the -v- appears to have been introduced in Middle English by association with SAVOUR. Sense 1 dates from the late 17th cent.