汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 秀色可餐
秀色可餐
a feast for the eyes (idiom) / (of women) gorgeous / graceful / (of scenery) beautiful
秀色 Beauty or natural beauty / 餐 eat / Originally described the beauty of women / Later also described the scenery as beautiful
清秀的颜色能使人忘掉饥饿。多形容女子容貌非常美丽看她淡妆浅抹,秀色可餐,一种哀艳态度,真是有笔难描。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

你真是秀色可餐

You are really a dish.

秀色可餐!你会选择哪一个?

Eye candy! Which one would you choose?

是啊,没有哪一天我不让人说我秀色可餐的!

Yeah, it's an off day when I don't get.

他们再走到别的房间里去看,每换一个房间,景致总会两样,可是不管你走到哪个窗口,都自有秀色可餐

As they passed into other rooms, these objects were taking different positions; but from every window there were beauties to be seen.

我想,就算是忠粉们,“吃,祈祷与爱”在印度也不待见,因为片子虽然食物秀色可餐,可传递的思想却空空如也。

Even, I suspect, for loyalists, Eat Pray Love will bog down in India, because while food consumption is fun to watch, the emptying of the mind is not.