| 单词 | nice |
| 释义 | nice I. 1. obsolete a. b. 2. a. < too nice about his food to like camp cooking > < an animal nice about its diet > b. < the nice dishes at the banquet > 3. < the popular ear, none too nice to distinguish between sense and fustian — V.L.Parrington > 4. < a diplomatic mission requiring nice judgment > < the highest standards which a man of … the nicest sense of honor might impose — B.N.Cardozo > 5. < the balance was nice enough … to make both parties appeal for popular support — G.G.Coulton > < a nice question of ethics > < nice measurements with a micrometer > 6. obsolete a. b. < the letter was not nice but full of charge — Shakespeare > 7. a. < the duty of being nice to one's mother-in-law — F.D.Roosevelt > < what a nice fellow you are, and we all thought you so nasty — George Meredith > b. < a nice time at the party > < nice and warm by the fire > < we have four nice bedrooms upstairs to make them comfortable — Willa Cather > c. < a nice bit of satire > < a nice shot bringing down the bird > d. < nice people support charities > e. < the nice weather of late spring > < the nice old days of the past > f. < always a nice dresser > < a nice-looking American businessman with a quiet calm manner and a friendly face — Dorothy C. Fisher > g. < the nice clothes she wears > < not a nice word for use in church > h. — used with and as an intensive < blankets are nice and dry > < this soup is nice and hot > 8. < a chronic alcoholic is certainly a nice one to talk about temperance > < a nice friend, who would have me … cover myself with eternal infamy — J.A.Froude > < got himself in a nice fix > 9. a. < unpopular with the nicer people of the town > b. c. Synonyms: < a nice taste in literature — Compton Mackenzie > nice may indicate a tender or squeamish disinclination to countenance the questionable or raw < boycotted by the respectables, who were too nice to accept socially those whose business they tolerated — W.A.White > dainty may describe a tendency to pick and choose with delicate sensibility and, sometimes, to reject disdainfully < dainty feeders who expect perfection — A.W.Long > < the tough jargon of the East Side no less than the dainty discourse of the Four Hundred — C.H.Grandgent > fastidious implies a meticulously careful judgment, often with disdainful rejection of what does not meet with very high standards occasionally set capriciously < a fastidious critic both of the written and the spoken word, hating anything which savored of the fantastic or the turgid — John Buchan > < the fastidious author could never satisfy himself, and the result is a production more remarkable for high polish than warmth of poetic feeling — Richard Garnett †1906 > < the fastidious lady whom it was most difficult to please — L.P.Smith > finical describes an affected, capricious fastidiousness that sometimes seems composed partly of a determination to be displeased or dissatisfied < I am possibly a trifle overscrupulous about the conventions, but you must contrive to forgive a finical old friend — Elinor Wylie > particular may indicate a demand that all details satisfy an exacting standard < every year it used to get a nice coat of paint — Papa was very particular about the paint — Lillian Hellman > < they wear gloves, hats and stockings, and are usually particular about grooming because they were brought up in the stricter times — Agnes M. Miall > fussy may blend the suggestions of finical and particular with a hint of querulousness < a busy, fussy sort of man, much concerned with regulating everything — A.M.Young > < so fussy about the punctilious observance of orders that almost any brakeman would take a chance once in a while, from natural perversity — Willa Cather > squeamish describes a sensitive or prudish readiness to be nauseated, disgusted, or antagonized by whatever does not satisfy one's delicate standards or preferences < his conditioning had made him not so much pitiful as profoundly squeamish. The mere suggestion of illness or wounds was to him not only horrifying, but even repulsive and rather disgusting — Aldous Huxley > < not squeamish about the soft fleshy mud creeping round his ankles, or about the things which slid from under his feet — Audrey Barker > pernickety is deprecatory in indicating exasperating crusty fussiness < the grammarian, the purist, the pernickety stickler for trifles — Brander Matthews > Synonym: see in addition correct, decorous. II. III. |
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