英语词汇“happy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	happy
释义	hap·py I. \ˈhapē, -pi\ adjective (usually -er/-est) Etymology: Middle English, from hap, happe hap + -y — more at hap 1. : favored by luck or fortune : fortunate, prosperous, propitious, favorable < perennially happy dice should be inspected to discover whether they are loaded — J.R.Newman > < scientific discoveries … seem to drop out of the blue, the gift of happy chance — Lamp > < they experiment in color … with results sometimes happy, sometimes disastrous — Roger Fry > 2. : notably well adapted or fitting : markedly effective : apt, felicitous, appropriate, just < he will seek to establish by law the happy mean — G.L.Dickinson > < the happy diction, and the graceful phrase — E.G.Bulwer-Lytton > < the passage in the finale was particularly happy — Virgil Thomson > < television is an especially happy medium — Irving Kolodin > < the attendants had a happy thought — Jeremiah Dowling > 3. a. : having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being < would forbid any novelist to represent a good man as ever miserable or a wicked man as ever happy — Havelock Ellis > b. : characterized or attended by happiness : expressing, reflecting, or suggestive of happiness : not tragic : pleasant, joyous < the happy years of childhood > < a happy family life > < a book with a happy ending > < it had been a merciful passing, even a happy one — S.H.Adams > < the happy noises of prolonged mastication — C.H.Rickword > < paints a happy picture of rural life > < past happy brooks flashing to the sun — G.D.Brown > c. : glad, pleased < I am happy to meet you > < I would be happy for the president to declare his policy — Time > d. : having or marked by an atmosphere of good fellowship or camaraderie : harmonious, congenial, friendly < sailormen prefer a happy to a taut ship, where strict discipline is the only diet — A.R.Griffin > < I know that they will find … a happy welcome on the Canadian shore — F.D.Roosevelt > < its happy industrial relations and the loyal spirit of its workers — Sam Pollock > 4. obsolete : blessed 5. : having a feeling of well-being as a result of drink < came home a bit happy > 6. a. : characterized by a dazed irresponsible state — used as a terminal element in combination with the cause of the condition indicated < a punch-happy prizefighter > < the gold-happy miners decided to have a horse race — J.A.Michener > b. : impulsively, nervously, or obsessively quick to use something — used as a terminal element in combinations with the object indicated < they'll be gun-happy and … let go at anything that moves — William Wright > < trigger-happy soldiers > c. : enthusiastic to the point of obsession : obsessed — used as a terminal element in combinations with the object of the feeling indicated < I know your type … publicity-happy — Ellery Queen > < that guy is stripe-happy — Norman Mailer > < sailor-happy girls who move around after the fleet — Katharine T. Kinkead > Synonyms: see fit, glad, lucky II. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-es) now dialect : to make happy < it don't happy me up any — Howard Troyer >
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