With respect to giving your children a taste for Natural History, I will venture one remark--viz., that giving them specimens in my opinion would tend to destroy such taste. Youngsters must be themselves collectors to acquire a taste; and if I had a collection of English lepidoptera, I would be systematically most miserly, and not give my boys half a dozen butterflies in the year. Your eldest has the brow of an observer, if there be the least truth in phrenology. We are all better, but we have been of late a poor household.英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
It was the taste of the doctor:--was it not a droll of taste? "At the end of the garden was the doctor's cabinet of study. My faith, a singular cabinet, and singular pictures!-- "Decapitation of Charles Premier at Vitehall. "Decapitation of Montrose at Edimbourg. "Decapitation of Cinq Mars. When I tell you that he was a man of a taste, charming! "Through this garden, by these statues, up these stairs, went the pale figure of him who, the porter said, knew the way of the house. He did.英文原著 · 《Roundabout Papers》
It is reason and good sense therefore which ranks and estimates every art, and every part of that art, according to its importance, from the painter of animated down to inanimated nature. We will not allow a man, who shall prefer the inferior style, to say it is his taste; taste here has nothing, or at least ought to have nothing to do with the question. He wants not taste, but sense, and soundness of judgment.英文原著 · 《Seven Discourses on Art》
The editor followed this up with another successful series, again pictorial. He realized that to explain good taste in furnishing by text was almost impossible. So he started a series of all-picture pages called "Good Taste and Bad Taste." He presented a chair that was bad in lines and either useless or uncomfortable to sit in, and explained where and why it was bad; and then put a good chair next to it, and explained where and why it was good.英文原著 · 《The Americanization of Edward Bok》
Again, when The Journal decided to show good taste and bad taste in furniture, in comparative pictures, another hundred thousand circulation came to it. There was certainly nothing new in the comparative idea; but applied to a question of taste, which could not be explained so clearly in words, it seemed new.英文原著 · 《The Americanization of Edward Bok》
Faint amorist, what, dost thou think To taste Love's honey, and not drink One dram of gall? or to devour A world of sweet, and taste no sour? Dost thou ever think to enter Th' Elysian fields, that dar'st not venture In Charon's barge? a lover's mind Must use to sail with every wind. He that loves and fears to try, Learns his mistress to deny. Doth she chide thee? 'tis to show it, That thy coldness makes her do it: Is she silent? is she mute?英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
Half the taste is in the smell. You're sucking up all the taste units.美剧 · 《Friends》
You could taste the sting of the metal on your tongue... mixed with the taste of her cunt.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Quick question: Does it happen to do with online tastes That might or might not reflect their real-life tastes?美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
And deduce all sorts of interesting things about the taste and the desires of bees -- and deduce all sorts of interesting things about the taste and the desires of bees --演讲 · 《A plant's-eye view ~ Michael Pollan》