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单词 finesse
释义 finesse
 /fi ness"/,  n.  ,  v.  , finessed, finessing.
  n.  
  1. extreme delicacy or subtlety in action, performance, skill, discrimination, taste, etc.
  2. skill in handling a difficult or highly sensitive situation; adroit and artful management: exceptional diplomatic finesse.
  3. a trick, artifice, or stratagem.
  4.  Bridge  ,  Whist.   an attempt to win a trick with a card while holding a higher card not in sequence with it, in the hope that the card or cards between will not be played.
  v.i.  
  5. to use finesse or artifice.
  6. to make a finesse at cards.
  v.t.  
  7. to bring about by finesse or artifice.
  8. to avoid; circumvent.
  9. to make a finesse with (a card).
  10. to force the playing of (a card) by a finesse.
 [1400-50; late ME: degree of excellence or purity < MF < VL *finitia. See FINE1, -ICE]
 Syn. 1, 2. tact, diplomacy, savoir faire, circumspection, sensitivity, sensibility.
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