英:[kempt]
美:[kempt]
英:[kempt]
美:[kempt]
adjective
of hair, neatly combed.His hair was kempt, for a change, and he'd found a decent suit to wear.
of a place, neatly maintained.Her apartment was small but very kempt and cozy.
"整齐梳理的",14世纪晚期,源自古老的 kemb 动词的过去式,意为"梳理",源自古英语 cemdan(参见 unkempt)。此词在1500年后很少使用; 现代任何使用可能都是从 unkempt 词中幽默地反推出来的。
back-formation from unkempt
The first known use of kempt was in 1929
1 The whole place is well kempt.
2 Mr. Pruitt’s version of Warhol, which he devised on a computer, is young and beautiful with an uncharacteristically delicate nose and an unusually kempt fright wig.
3 His features were a good deal like those of Leonardo da Vinci; moreover he was kempt, looked in vigorous health, and was of a ruddy countenance.
4 Perfectly kempt in a blue cardigan and striped shirt.
5 I dreamt that my hair was kempt.
我梦到我的头发梳理好了。
6 It was swank, and packed with a diverse crowd of about 200 that skewed young — lots of beards, both kempt and unkempt, and beanies galore.
7 Express your fears of an accident; enlist all parties to work toward mutual, inclusive goals; a safe, durable place to play that’s also kempt and green.
8 The kempt yellow gravel of drives.
9 Is your dwelling more kempt than my dwelling?
10 The faces that greet me downstairs are all kempt and smiling.
11 The reputation of their beards precedes them, though that facial hair is more kempt than it once was.
12 How this painter of stark modernity could have been the master of an artist like Claude, whose scenery is forever neatly kempt, is an enigma that the exhibition book does not address.
13 Gardens as well kempt as a short hair-cut.
14 Even less kempt, Walton Goggins gets to play an angry, avenging figure, given to oratory and mind games.
15 There’s a science to ensuring that his beard remains kempt, he said.
16 Greatly did we rejoice thereat, for Jamestown had become as slovenly and ill kempt a village as ever the sun shone upon.
17 It was silky and wavy and curly, and—alas for poor human nature!—it was kempt and kept—an Assyrian beard.
18 The girls are kempt.
女孩们很整洁。
19 A well-kempt courtyard for visitors conceals the prison’s overcrowding—stuffed to nine times its capacity with up to 250 women sharing a cell.
20 A hawk hunting for house pets in the kempt lawns of suburbia sounds like the making of an urban legend, but the tale has, in recent decades, become a staple of local news.
1 整洁
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4 整洁的
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