vintage

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Related topics: Drink

vin·tage1 /ˈvɪntɪdʒ/ adjectiveadj [only before noun]

1. DFDvintage wine is good quality wine made in a particular year 〔某特定年份酿制的葡萄酒〕佳酿的，上等的，优质的

2 old, but high quality 旧式的，老式的〔但品质优良〕

vintage cars

老爷车

3 BESTTYPICALshowing all the best or most typical qualities of something 最好的；最典型的

a vintage performance from Bruce Springsteen

一场最具布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀风格的演出

4 vintage year

a) DFDa year when a good quality wine was produced 佳酿年份，美酒酿成的年份

b) BESTa year when something of very good quality was produced 旺年，好年

vintage year for

2001 was not a vintage year for movies.

2001年不是电影的旺年。

Examples from the Corpus

vintage for• It has already been a vintage year for hacking.

Examples from the Corpus

vintage• With its vintage cable cars and cosmopolitan restaurants, the city is brimming with urbane sophistication.• While you are waiting for your private audience with the king of the Magic Kingdom you can watch vintage cartoons.• They lunched on lobster and strawberries, accompanied by a fine vintage champagne.• "A lot of people have never been in an open car, " says Mike Jacobsen, a computer programmer, who has four vintage convertibles.• Best when aged 2 to 4 years from vintage date.• The latest film has a vintage Disney charm.• Be suspicious of vintage kosher wines that are older than comparable nonkosher wines.• And over the weekend there's the usual chance to see the traditional display and run of vintage machinery.• The 1960s vintage subs would require substantial refitting.• The vintage wine had anointed his tongue with new and seductive language.