| 单词 | tact |
| 释义 | tact 1. a. archaic < sight is a very refined tact — Joseph Le Conte > b. < must not be set to do work of a practical nature until he has shown tact — Katharine S. Woods > 2. < the Venetians as a school were from the first endowed with exquisite tact in their use of color — Bernhard Berenson > < precision and tact of interpretation — Martin Price > 3. < without the tact to perceive when remarks were untimely — Thomas Hardy > < tact is an inestimable quality in a secretary — Harold Croft > < his editing is a marvel of unobtrusive tact — New York Herald Tribune Book Review > Synonyms: < his vicar, who had so much tact with the natives, so much sympathy with all their shortcomings — Willa Cather > < hoping however that the matter would be handled with sufficient delicacy and tact to avoid breaking up the committee — A.L.Funk > < more than sufficient tact never to discuss either whiskeys or sermons in the wrong place — Arnold Bennett > address is more general than tact in suggesting a general command, stressing the skill involved in creating a good impression when meeting strangers or in handling new or difficult situations, often implying adroitness or suavity < tall, well formed, of remarkably fine address, ready in decision and prompt in action, a gentleman of heart and intellect whom both teachers and children respected — H.N.Sherwood > < if he expresses his judgments cogently and aims them with sufficient address at the critical conscience — F.R.Leavis > poise suggests a self-possession or equanimity that is preserved even under the stress of embarrassing or upsetting situations < the appearance of self-possession or poise that comes from an habitual attention to what is graceful and becoming — D.C.Hodges > < recovers its dignity and poise and becomes once more a stately avenue of a waterborne commerce — Tom Marvel > savoir faire carries the idea of a worldly experience that gives the skilled ability to handle all situations with tact and poise < to her relief he took it with the savoir faire of a man of the world — MacLean's Magazine > < its technical know-how needs to be supplemented in the political field by some European savoir faire — Percy Winner > |
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