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美:[grə'sɪlɪtɪ]
英:[grə'sɪlɪtɪ]
美:[grə'sɪlɪtɪ]
adjective
slender, slight
graceful
of, relating to, resembling, or being a relatively small slender australopithecine (genus Australopithecus) characterized especially by molars and incisors of similar size that are adapted to a diet including both plant matter and animal flesh compare robust sense 5
Latin gracilis
The first known use of gracile was in 1623
1 The beauty of it is that it is, for all it is worth, a Drama, and almost, as it seems to me, of the psychologic Racinian unity, intensity and gracility.
2 The tendency of fat is to take away from one's gracility; therefore, any one inclined to be fat must be ultra conservative—in order to counteract the effect.
3 In person, Caesar was tall, fair, and of limbs distinguished for their elegant proportions and gracility.
4 In person, he was tall, fair, and of limbs distinguished for their elegant proportions and gracility.
5 gracile as any pair of classically trained dancers, the bride and groom made their way around the dance floor
6 Hawkins misplaced horns and spikes, and some of his robust four-legged dinosaurs were actually gracile bipeds.
7 More generally, humans as a whole have become more gracile over the last 10,000 years.
8 Elephant bones by comparison are gracile, slender—they’re like twigs compared to mastodons.
9 The bright colors and gracile X-braces of the Eames House are written all across the Pompidou Center.
10 Homotherium was not the only carnivore on the Pleistocene landscape, and the gracile cats might have faced competition from Ice Age hyenas, bears and other cats.
11 At first glance, there would seem to be nothing to find in that little house of Cobb’s signature masterpiece, the gracile glass skyscraper that still crowns Boston’s skyline and is the quintessence of what design historians call high modernism.
12 Gracile skulls due to the Mongoloid’s very recent evolutionary development.
2 细弱
3 朴实无华
modest funky chaste unpretentious unadorned folksy unostentatious unpretending folkish no-frills chastity
7 简洁
spare economy brevity brief compact elegant neat concise succinct chaste terse laconic concinnity chastity concision laconism condense telegraphical nutshell pithy telegraphic sententious laconical severely brachylogy laconicism short clean tight economical thumbnail compressed taut monosyllabic compendious short-winded shortly severity compaction in small compass