英:['ɡreɪʃəslɪ]
美:[ˈɡreʃəslɪ]
英:['ɡreɪʃəslɪ]
美:[ˈɡreʃəslɪ]
adv.
优雅地
慈祥地
亲切地
优裕地
词根:gracious
adj.gracious 亲切的;高尚的;和蔼的;雅致的
int.gracious 天哪;哎呀
n.graciousness 亲切,和蔼;好心
adjective
marked by kindness and courtesy
a gracious host
characterized by charm, good taste, generosity of spirit, and the tasteful leisure of wealth and good breeding
gracious living
graceful
marked by tact and delicacy : urbane
merciful, compassionate—used conventionally of royalty and high nobility
my gracious lord, the Duke of Windsor
archaic pleasing, acceptable
obsolete godly
公元1300年左右,意为“上帝的恩典”,由 gracious 和 -ly(2)组成。意为“有好意地,表示好意地”是在14世纪后期出现的。
Middle English, from Anglo-French gracieus, from Latin gratiosus enjoying favor, agreeable, from gratia
The first known use of gracious was in the 14th century
grade1 of 2verb
to arrange in grades : sort
grade apples
to make level or evenly sloping
grade a highway
to give a grade to
grade a student's performance
to assign to a grade
to form a series having only slight differences
colors that grade into one another
grade2 of 2noun
position in a scale of rank, quality, or order leather of the highest grade
the grade of sergeant
a stage, step, or degree in a series, order, or ranking
a class of things that are of the same rank, quality, or order
a division of the school course representing a year's work
finished the fourth grade
the pupils in a school division
plural the elementary school system
teach in the grades
a mark or rating especially of accomplishment in school
a grade of 90 on a test
a standard of quality
government grades for meat
the degree of slope (as of a road or railroad track)
gradnoun or adjective
graduate
gracklenoun
any of several rather large American blackbirds with glossy mostly black feathers
graciousadjective
marked by kindness and courtesy
pleasing or attractive in motion or form
gracious ballet steps
characterized by charm, good taste, and politeness
gracious living
graciousadjective
marked by kindness and courtesy
pleasing or attractive in motion or form
gracious ballet steps
characterized by charm, good taste, and politeness
gracious living
1 You pay for the drink, I thank you graciously, and everyone walks away happy.
2 My mother graciously thanked the unknown benefactor, saying, “Too good. Cost too much.”
3 Sable nodded graciously, and took the book from her.
塞布尔优雅地点了点头,从她手上接过了那本书。
4 I smile graciously and nod like I’m already a queen and offer my hand delicately.
5 At the temple the priest—or priestess, he added graciously—would pass the paper over the sacred fire, and do whatever other stuff he could think up.
6 In the end, Boyle was runner-up to a dance 2 troupe called "Diversity", whom she congratulated graciously.
最终,博伊尔败给街舞组合“万象”,获得亚军。但她诚恳优雅地对冠军表达了祝贺。
7 Then, lifting his hand graciously, " For the lodge. "
"然后他大度地扬扬手说, " 为支部捧个场嘛. ”
8 Moth accepted the victory graciously.
莫丝有风度地接受了胜利。
9 An hour after the Colonel left, resident stoner Hank Walsten dropped by to offer me some weed, which I graciously turned down.
10 The lady guest graciously accepted my arm and allowed me to take her in to dinner.
这位女宾很大方地挽住我的胳膊,由我引她去进餐。
11 In the elegant way of innocent men, he accepted his gift graciously.
12 She spoke graciously to him and Odysseus told her a tale of meeting her husband on his way to Troy which made her weep until he pitied her.
13 Sam bowed graciously each time he was thanked.
14 Capricorn rose from his chair, his face still as cold and blank as if nothing worth getting excited about had happened, and clapped his ringed hands graciously.
15 The second man graciously thanks the first man and continues to the bar.
第二个人很礼貌地感谢了第一个人,继续走向吧台。
16 Bryant immediately and graciously apologized.
科比立即诚恳致歉。
17 He graciously gave me his share of the iguana.
18 But I smile graciously and bow my head, because I know they mean well.
19 Miss Whitlaw thanked us for the apples and graciously asked us to sit in her good parlor chairs.
20 As the people in the other car fumbled out, I tried to recover my control and said loudly and too graciously, “Gracias, senor.”
1 优雅
class elegant stylish neat finished delicate refined polite exquisite Corinthian gracious graceful cultivated courtly ladylike lightsome gentlemanlike featly Chesterfieldian finely elegantly chicly finish grace polish elegance flair delicacy fineness politesse elegancy etherealness bon ton
3 仁慈地
4 亲切
5 仁慈
good kind decent gentle tender gracious forgiving philanthropic merciful benevolent lenient beneficent good-hearted clement soft-hearted kindhearted benignant softhearted benefic largehearted mercifully benevolently leniently quarter grace mercy goodness clemency leniency loving-kindness benignity soft-heartedness benignancy have a heart of gold