英:['saɪtlɪ]
美:['saɪtlɪ]
英:['saɪtlɪ]
美:['saɪtlɪ]
sight·ly
saIt li
比较级:sightlier
最高级:sightliest
sightliness (n.)
"my bonny lass"
"there's a bonny bay beyond"
"a comely face"
"young fair maidens"
1530年代,“可见的”(现已过时); 1560年代,“令人愉悦的”,源自 sight(n.)+ -ly(1)。
比较德语 sichtlich。中古英语 sightlie 于15世纪中叶被证明只有“可见”的意义; 中古英语中也有 unsightly,意为“看不见”(15世纪后期)。中古英语还有 unsighty,意为“难看或不悦目的”(15世纪初,源自 sighty(14世纪后期)“可见的,显眼的; 明亮的,闪亮的; 有吸引力的,英俊的”; 约1400年为“视力敏锐的”; 15世纪中叶为“有识别力的”(比较德语 sichtig “可见的”)。
The first known use of sightly was in 1534
signal1 of 3noun
an act, event, or word that serves to start some action
a sound or motion of a part of the body made to give warning or command
an object placed to give notice or warning
a traffic signal
the message, sound, or effect transmitted in electronic communication (as radio or television)
a radio wave or electric current that transmits a message or effect (as in radio or television)
signal2 of 3verb
to notify by a signal
to communicate by or as if by signals
signal3 of 3adjective
unusually great a signal achievement
a signal honor
used in signaling
a signal light
signal1 of 3noun
an act, event, or word that serves to start some action
a sound or motion of a part of the body made to give warning or command
an object placed to give notice or warning
a traffic signal
the message, sound, or effect transmitted in electronic communication (as radio or television)
a radio wave or electric current that transmits a message or effect (as in radio or television)
signal2 of 3verb
to notify by a signal
to communicate by or as if by signals
signal3 of 3adjective
unusually great a signal achievement
a signal honor
used in signaling
a signal light
signal1 of 3noun
an act, event, or word that serves to start some action
a sound or motion of a part of the body made to give warning or command
an object placed to give notice or warning
a traffic signal
the message, sound, or effect transmitted in electronic communication (as radio or television)
a radio wave or electric current that transmits a message or effect (as in radio or television)
signal2 of 3verb
to notify by a signal
to communicate by or as if by signals
signal3 of 3adjective
unusually great a signal achievement
a signal honor
used in signaling
a signal light
signal1 of 3noun
an act, event, or word that serves to start some action
a sound or motion of a part of the body made to give warning or command
an object placed to give notice or warning
a traffic signal
the message, sound, or effect transmitted in electronic communication (as radio or television)
a radio wave or electric current that transmits a message or effect (as in radio or television)
signal2 of 3verb
to notify by a signal
to communicate by or as if by signals
signal3 of 3adjective
unusually great a signal achievement
a signal honor
used in signaling
a signal light
sigmanoun
the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet—Σ or σ or ς
sightseeverb
to go about seeing sights of interest
sightseeingadjective
engaged in, devoted to, or used for seeing things and places of interest
a sightseeing bus
sightseeverb
to go about seeing sights of interest
sight1 of 2noun
something that is seen : spectacle
something that is worth seeing
showed us the sights of the city
something that is peculiar, funny, or messy
you're a sight
the process, power, or function of seeingespecially: the animal sense of which the sense organ is the eye and by which the position, shape, and color of objects are perceived
the act of seeing faints at the sight of blood
knows him by sight
the perception of an object within the visual field
lost sight of the plane
the space over which a person can see
a ship came into sight
a device that aids the eye in aiming or in finding the direction of an object
plural aspiration sense 3a, goal sense 2
set her sights on a career in law
sight2 of 2verb
to get or catch sight of
several bears were sighted
to look at through or as if through a sight
sightlyadjective
pleasant to look at
1 His seat was an old arm-chair, which his daughter had rendered more comfortable and sightly by throwing over it a kaross made of the silver jackal’s akin.
2 A more sightly and exquisite plate of dessert than a plate of currants dressed thus, cannot be had.
3 I am quite as rich as the oats," it said; "and, moreover, I am much more sightly.
4 As one of the sightlier parts of Northern California, with its majestic oaks and gaudy colors, Napa has some of the highest real estate prices in America and some of its most expensive hotel rooms.
5 Attempts to patch the Judaistic robe with the new fabric of the gospel could result in nothing more sightly than a hideous rent.
6 He is very sightly in appearance and has a perfect track disposition.
7 The requisite exoskeleton that now envelops the stadium somehow makes it less sightly.
8 It was not a very sightly shrub, and it marred the wonderful correctness of the lawn no little, but the Major had his reasons for letting it alone.
9 Sometimes if it looks like a sightly so-so set of hurled-together elite teams and quacks like a sightly so-so set of hurled-together elite teams, well, you get the idea.
10 Other pieces which are tough but well flavored can, in the hands of an educated cook, be sent to the table as tender, palatable, sightly and nutritious as the prime cuts.
11 Before dinner we took a walk into the park, along the lakeside and past the château, which is a curious architectural mixture and not very sightly.
12 Best extras: Criterion, known for a generous supply of bonus content for each of its releases, sightly under delivers here with only a trio of featurettes.
13 The nucleus of the boarding-house was, as we have said, an old farm-house, which accounted for its not very sightly situation, there in a hollow of the hills.
14 I found Mr. Reed in a three-story corner brick house, on one of the most sightly spots in town.
15 The newspaper caption reads, in part, “The accompanying halftone is a representation of the new Denny Home … one of the most sightly spots in the city.”
16 These mud houses were at times whitewashed and were both comfortable and sightly.
17 We will cover this in both sections from sightly different angels.
我们将从稍微不同的角度把它涵盖在两节内容里。
18 Johnson & Johnson’s stock price fell sightly following its Q3 2014 earnings announcement despite the company beating consensus estimates and keeping the full year outlook the same.
19 The improved appreciation which makes people build sightly homes makes them fill those homes with furniture of respectable design.
20 Even if your day in a cubicle is sightly less intense than one in the Oval Office, you still want to be the best, most productive employee you can be.
1 漂亮
good pretty smart attractive brilliant adorable nifty spanking bonny handsomely attractively prettily smartness smarten up
3 显眼
effective bold prominent marking conspicuous glaring emphatic showy insistent snazzy prononce glare show signalize
6 好看
well-looking pretty Nice fine proper handsome good-looking goodly nice-looking Bonny dossy toothsome sweet fineness sonsy fair-faced clean dainty showy clean-cut comely seemly dulcet sonsie gradely daintily
7 悦目的
canny specious sweet eyeable eyesome eye-appealing comely easy on the eye pretty pleasant bonnie picturesque