英:[ˈkwi:nli]
美:[ˈkwinli]
英:[ˈkwi:nli]
美:[ˈkwinli]
queen·ly
kwin li
比较级:queenlier
最高级:queenliest
词根:queen
adj.queenlike 女王般的
n.queen 女王,王后;(纸牌中的)皇后;(蜜蜂等的)蜂王
vi.queen 做女王
vt.queen 使…成为女王或王后
Adjective
1. having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen;
"queenly propriety"
"clad in her queenly raiment"
"Rosetti's queenly portraits of women"
"属于或具有女王特征的",15世纪中期, queenli,源自 queen(n.)+ -ly(1)。相关词汇: Queenliness。
The first known use of queenly was in the 15th century
queenlyadjective
resembling a queen
1 For their Spring/Summer 2020 collection, the brand reimagined those legendary shoes as the Vivier Queen Sandals, so everyone can step out in queenly style.
2 In the dim light he could see Leslie’s face freeze into its most queenly pose—the kind of expression she usually reserved for vanquished enemies.
3 In an atmosphere of lavish pomp and royal luxury, the queenly Sugar Plum Fairy presides over choreographed tributes by different groups of leaping, frolicking, food-bearing “ambassadors.”
4 Miss Ingram, who had now seated herself with proud grace at the piano, spreading out her snowy robes in queenly amplitude, commenced a brilliant prelude; talking meantime.
5 In “Prince Lestat,” the first Vampire Chronicles novel in a decade, Rice’s queenly prose is unaltered.
6 The queenly soprano, whom everyone venerates but somehow fails to recognize, gives off a whiff of Emilia Marty in Janacek’s The Makropulos Case.
7 And then there was the Queen herself: regal and, well, queenly – but not in the way that would excite a young man’s fantasies.
8 The actress, who starred as Sorsha in 1988's Willow and returns as an older, queenly version of the character in the new Disney+ series, is delighted to be back in the fantasy world.
9 Half this spring’s university graduates are likely to live to a queenly 100-years-old.
10 But there may have been occasions when the queen has tried, in her own queenly way, to score a point for feminism.
11 She maintained a queenly posture.
12 And then she gave a smile that was perhaps a bit queenly.
13 Even as the focal point of an arena show, she's cute rather than queenly.
14 He loved to tease, possessed a “queenly persona”, snubbed people who failed to interest him and “had a tongue like a viper if he wanted to use it”.
15 Then she tosses the cake in the garbage bag on the housekeeping trolley with a queenly flourish, all without breaking her stride to the elevator.
16 Diana cut an odd figure in literary-bohemian New York: a queenly Cold Warrior with a temperamental aversion to revolt.
17 She was a queenly, organizing type.
她属于那种像女王般把一切都组织得井然有序的类型。
18 Christie’s diction is crisp, pronounced, underlaid by a queenly growl that comes from the back of her throat.
19 Roberts shows me a silk jacquard outfit in apricot and lemon for a queenly hospital visit, beautifully made, and likely to be in shot for mere seconds.
20 O’Connell — Didi, to her intimates — is petite and nimble, with a queenly nimbus of red hair and a default expression, offstage anyway, of intent curiosity.