| 单词 | beautiful |
| 释义 | beau·ti·ful I. 1. a. < seldom have I seen … so beautiful a face. She was a blonde, golden-haired, blue-eyed — A. Conan Doyle > < the Song of Songs, beautiful, orientally sensuous, too glowing perhaps for western taste — H.O.Taylor > < a beautiful sonorous and flexible language — H.T.Buckle > b. < an Aquinas in his cell before a crucifix or a Narcissus … equally beautiful — W.H.Mallock > 2. a. < this most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets — Isaac Newton > < the deep canyon of Broadway, between those vast structures, beautiful but sinister — P.E.More > < his arguments were beautiful and deserved to be true — Francis Galton > b. < young children not infrequently have an exquisitely beautiful saintliness of character — W.R.Inge > c. < he made a beautiful shot on that leopard — Ernest Hemingway > < its accurate and beautiful record of folk dialect — American Guide Series: Ind. > < a beautiful book so technically perfect that the professional writer stands in awe of it — Saturday Review > d. < a case of disease may be so typical in its exhibition of characteristic relations as to be called beautiful — John Dewey > 3. < beautiful weather > < a beautiful friendship > < a beautiful roast turkey > Synonyms: < O Cynthia, ten times bright and fair! … too divine art thou, too keen in beauty … how beautiful thou art — John Keats > < after nursery rhymes they should learn equally beautiful songs — Bertrand Russell > < the Deanery is now a beautiful private residence with herbaceous borders — E.V.Lucas > lovely suggests sensuous or emotional delights < Freydis now showed as the most lovely of womenkind. She had black plaited hair, and folds of crimson silk were over her white flesh, and over her shoulders was a black coat embroidered with little gold stars — J.B.Cabell > beauteous, a rather literary word, and pulchritudinous, a relatively new word uncommon outside journalism, stress rich appeal < young maidens came, beauteous and calm, like shapes of living stone, clothed in the light of dreams — P.B.Shelley > pretty suggests presence of grace, charm, vivacity, daintiness, or petiteness, an absence of perfection, ideality, stateliness, and dignity < she was pretty at all times … with her light-brown ringlets, her delicately tinged but healthful cheek, her sensitive, intelligent, yet most feminine and kindly face. But every few moments, the pretty and girlish face grew beautiful and striking, as some inward thought and feeling brightened, rose to the surface — Nathaniel Hawthorne > < as a pretty household toy, Pussy was carried from Africa to Europe — Agnes Repplier > comely and bonny, which has a Scotch suggestion, stress pleasant wholesomeness and fitness < a quick brunette, well molded, falcon-eyed. … ‘Comely, too, by all that's fair’ — Alfred Tennyson > < your bonny face sae mild and sweet his honest heart enamors — Robert Burns > fair, less common as a synonym for beautiful in today's English, may suggest lightness or freshness < the girl was certainly fair to look upon. Many heavens were in her sunny eyes, and the outline of that arm of hers … was the very curve of beauty — Herman Melville > The words preceding refer more commonly to women than to men; handsome and good-looking refer about equally to men, women, and things. handsome suggests a pleasing appearance, due proportions, and a measure of dignity and taste < Cleveland was … a he-man, handsome with a certain bull-like pulchritude, which was the outer symbol of his inner courage — W.A.White > < she was very handsome; a bold beauty, with shining black hair, red lips, and eyes not afraid of men — George Meredith > < handsome houses rich in mahogany, plate, and pier glasses — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > good-looking is less expressive and is not rich in especial connotations < a good-looking young fellow of twenty-five. His cheeks were dyed with fine Saxon red … his blue eye opened well, and a profusion of fair hair curled over a well-shaped head — Herman Melville > II. < studying the beautiful > |
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