| 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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