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 refreshing [rɪ'frɛʃɪŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 使清爽的, 有精神的, 爽快的



    refreshing
    [ adj ]
    1. imparting vitality and energy

      2. <adj.all>
      the bracing mountain air
    2. pleasantly new or different

      3. <adj.all>
      common sense of a most refreshing sort


    Refresh \Re*fresh"\ (r?*fr?sh"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Refreshed}
    (-fr?sht"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Refreshing}.] [OE. refreshen,
    refreschen, OF. refreschir (cf. OF. rafraischir, rafreschir,
    F. rafra?chir); pref. re- re- + fres fresh. F. frais. See
    {Fresh}, a.]
    1. To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit,
    animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or
    depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to
    reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the body and the mind.
    --Chaucer.

    Foer they have refreshed my spirit and yours. --1
    Cor. xvi. 18.

    And labor shall refresh itself with hope. --Shak.

    2. To make as if new; to repair; to restore.

    The rest refresh the scaly snakes that fol?
    The shield of Pallas, and renew their gold.
    --Dryden.

    {To refresh the memory}, to quicken or strengthen it, as by a
    reference, review, memorandum, or suggestion.

    Syn: To cool; refrigerate; invigorate; revive; reanimate;
    renovate; renew; restore; recreate; enliven; cheer.


    Refreshing \Re*fresh"ing\, a.
    Reviving; reanimating. -- {Re*fresh"ing*ly}, adv. --
    {Re*fresh"ing*ness}, n.

    1. Yesterday's 11 per cent increase in interim profits from Invergordon made a refreshing change to a dull diet of depressed earnings.
    2. So much political capital has been invested in them that the markets might well take it as a weakness if they were shelved. The longer term It is refreshing to move from these follies to a memorandum obtainable from the Department of Trade and Industry.
    3. Mr. Garreau takes the refreshing view that the Americans who flock there must be on to something, not that they need to have their heads examined.
    4. Pasta of dubious quality is undoubtedly helped by slightly undercooking it and then refreshing it. Thus treated, the sample dried pastas from Marks and Spencer and Safeways perked up.
    5. "I find this refreshing," Adams' report said.
    6. Yet Mr. Superson finds it all quite refreshing, and lauds the diligence of his employees here.
    7. Compared with the media's general outpouring of sugar-coated titillation, Dr. Ruth's blunt practicality seems refreshing.
    8. The sheer scope of his ambition is refreshing. Yet to my mind Kushner is a lightweight.
    9. "I expect that amateur astronomers will use the Hubble Space Telescope to ask refreshing new questions and that their findings will make a real contribution to the advancement of astronomy," he said.
    10. It is refreshing to see at least one world figure who knows what she believes in and is not inclined to reflexively compromise those beliefs.
    11. Trustees are much criticised for their passivity in defending investors, so it is refreshing to see Law Debenture Trust taking the initiative to the advantage of Hepworth's bondholders.
    12. But in the most direct assault on coffee yet, Pepsi will advertise Pepsi A.M. on television as a "cold, refreshing alternative to coffee," says a spokesman.
    13. "This is a great luxury," Crecine said. "The notion of having some time where you get to concentrate on something longer than five minutes is refreshing.
    14. I guess it's because I wasn't the stern Maude or Dorothy. It's refreshing to read a script like this.
    15. After all the torrential, over-cooked outpourings of American futurologists such as John Naisbitt and Alvin Toffler over the past decade, this slim volume makes a meatier yet more elegant and refreshing change of menu.
    16. Former staffers of the Evanston museum say the lack of protocol there was refreshing but also unprofessional.
    17. Ted Bailey, a Holly Farms vice president, says that shareholders and analysts have called the company's "mea culpa" "refreshing."
    18. Isn't that refreshing? The Tri-Star picture is rated PG.
    19. Better than either, however, is Matthew Bourne's impish and refreshing version for Adventures in Motion Pictures, staged (as in 1892) in a double-bill with Tchaikovsky's Yolanta and presented by Opera North at the Grand Theatre, Leeds.
    20. Asked about his feelings on the Berlin Wall being opened and on German unification, Portugalov was quoted as saying: "It's refreshing.
    21. This Tempest is on the verge of being vivid, refreshing, and spontaneous.
    22. What a refreshing contrast this article was to the many Journal stories of insider trading, greenmail, kickbacks and self-serving executives making unconscionable incomes.
    23. I took the train to Eltville at the area's eastern end, a small town filled with a jumble of half-timbered houses and an old fortress overlooking a wide stretch of the great river. A refreshing provincialism was apparent from the first.
    24. With all the high-minded and obfuscating talk of shareholder benefit that swirls around takeover battles, it is refreshing to encounter a novel that unsparingly reveals the passions and motives behind the rhetoric.
    25. Every six weeks he calls together his most senior 150 managers to review progress. Harris's attitude is a refreshing change for an industry mostly led by lifelong engineers or telecoms bureaucrats reared in the monopolistic culture.
    26. This article was a refreshing exception to that unfortunate reality.
    27. Washington's receptive posture toward democratic alternatives is refreshing, but it seems to stem largely from a belated realization that indiscriminate support for autocrats has been counterproductive.
    28. There's something wonderfully refreshing and energizing about the sense of starting a new phase in life.
    29. Far more interesting are the doomed but refreshing candidacies of such individuals as Roy James Clenendan, whose platform evinces a decidedly bracing orthodontic slant.
    30. The decision to avoid further staff cuts was welcomed by Sen. David Pryor, D-Ark., the chairman of Senate Special Committee on Aging, who said it showed "a refreshing change of heart" after reductions in the Reagan years.
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