gusto

• n. 愛好；由衷的高興；嗜好

來自PIE*geus, 選擇，品嚐，詞源同choose, gustatory, disgust. 原指有選擇的品嚐，風味，後詞義外延至嚐試，熱情，興致。

gusto

gusto: [17] Gusto originally meant ‘taste’. It was borrowed from Italian gusto, which, like French goût, comes from Latin gustus ‘taste’. Its semantic progress from ‘taste’ via ‘liking for a particular food’ and ‘liking in general’ to ‘zest, enthusiasm’ is paralleled in relish. (Latin gustus itself came from an Indo-European *geus-, which also produced English choose.)
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gusto (n.)

1620s, "very common from the beginning of the 19th c." [OED], from Italian gusto "taste," from Latin gustus "a tasting," related to gustare "to taste, take a little of," from PIE *gus-tu-, suffixed form of root *geus- "to taste, choose" (cognates: Sanskrit jus- "enjoy, be pleased," Avestan zaosa- "pleasure," Old Persian dauš- "enjoy"). The root forms words for "taste" in Greek and Latin, but its descendants in Germanic and Celtic mostly mean "try" or "choose" (such as Old English cosan, cesan, Modern English choose; Gothic kausjan "to test, to taste of," Old High German koston "try," German kosten "taste of"). The semantic development could have been in either direction. English first borrowed the French form, guste "organ of taste; sense of taste" (mid-15c.), but this became obsolete.

1. Hers was a minor part, but she played it with gusto.

她演的是個小角色，但是演得很投入。

來自柯林斯例句

2. They sang with gusto .

他們興致勃勃地唱歌。

來自《權威詞典》

3. The orchestra played with a winning combination of gusto and precision.

這個管弦樂隊在演奏熱情與精確性之間達到了水**融的境界.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. They fell to it with gusto.

他們興致勃勃地幹起來.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. The musicians played with gusto.

音樂家興致勃勃地演奏.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》