Question of the Day #821

As you would expect for a game of just incredible magnitude, there will be mouthwatering matchups across the field when Liverpool take on Real Madrid in Saturday’s Champions League final.

From the headline of this article at the Sporting News.

  上記の文で、mouthwateringの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "mouthwatering" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

よだれの出そうな、食欲をそそる、おいしそうな、喉から手が出るほど欲しい、誘うような

問題文は、食べ物とは関係ないので、最後の「誘うような」が一番適切です。  

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

arousing the appetite: tantalizingly delicious or appealing

 

Examples

• The world’s most mouthwatering cider doughnuts still come from Bartlett’s Orchard in Richmond. — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2020
• Look at those mouthwatering desserts.
• The air filled suddenly with a mouthwatering aroma of cooked meats. -- Erskine, Barbara, MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
• It is a mouthwatering list of exemptions from taxation.
• The prospect of what the Dynamic HDR Enhancer might be able to do with the VW1025ES’s 2,200 lumens of peak brightness (versus 2,000 on the already spectacular VW915ES) is pretty mouthwatering. — John Archer, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021

 

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