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词根:dainty
adj.dainty 美味的;讲究的;秀丽的;挑剔的
adv.daintily 讲究地;优美地;难以取悦地;可口地
n.dainty 美味
noun
something delicious to the taste
a London dainty—a pyramid of jelly—Virginia Woolf
something choice or pleasing
obsolete fastidiousness
adjective
tasting good : tasty
dainty morsels
attractively prepared and served
dainty sandwiches on silver trays
marked by delicate or diminutive beauty, form, or grace took a dainty sip
dainty teacups
obsolete chary, reluctant
… let us not be dainty of leave-taking …—Shakespeare
marked by fastidious discrimination or finicky taste
showing avoidance of anything rough
gentry too dainty to risk blisters on their hands—G. W. Johnson
Noun Middle English deinte, dainte "state of honor, high esteem, delight, luxury, marvel, delicacy, choice morsel," borrowed from Anglo-French deinté, dainté "esteem, fine object or deed, choice morsel" (continental Old French deintié), going back to Latin dignitāt-, dignitās "suitability, excellence, standing, esteem" — more at dignity Adjective Middle English deinte "excellent, delightful, (of food or drink) fine, delicious," adjective derivative of deinte, dainte "high esteem, delight, luxury, delicacy, choice morsel" — more at dainty >entry 1
The first known use of dainty was in the 14th century
daisnoun
a raised platform (as in a large room)
dairymannoun
a person who operates a dairy farm or works in a dairy
dairymaidnoun
a woman employed in a dairy
dairyingnoun
the business of operating a dairy
dairynoun
a place where milk is kept and butter or cheese is made
a farm devoted to the production of milk
a company that sells milk and milk products
milk from a cow or other domestic animal (as a goat)also: food (as ice cream, cheese, or yogurt) made primarily of or from milk
daiquirinoun
a cocktail made usually of rum, lime juice, and sugar
dainty1 of 2noun
something delicious to the taste : delicacy
dainty2 of 2adjective
tasty sense 1, delicious
delicately pretty
a dainty flower
having or showing delicate or finicky taste
a dainty eater
dainty1 of 2noun
something delicious to the taste : delicacy
dainty2 of 2adjective
tasty sense 1, delicious
delicately pretty
a dainty flower
having or showing delicate or finicky taste
a dainty eater
1 "Are you fond of reading, Mr. Pottle?" asked Mrs. Gallup, popping a Choc-O-late Nuttie into her demure mouth with a daintiness almost ethereal.
2 The poems published in 1881 are preceded by some dedicatory verses addressed to his wife which are characterised by great daintiness and simplicity, instinct with tender affection and chivalrous homage.
3 They are all symbols of love, daintiness and affection.
它们象征着爱和优美。
4 There is beauty and daintiness in leaf, flower, and winged seed, and despite the inferiority of most birch wood, the history of the family is a long story of usefulness to the human race.
5 I don't hold with a daintiness above your station.
6 They served dainty sandwiches on silver trays.
7 She discovered the daintiness of his appetite, and it was delightful to see her hovering over him at table and pointing out the choice bits in every dish she passed.
8 And what will all her learning and her daintiness do for her, now?
现在她所有的学问和她的文雅对她又有什么用呢?
9 The company locates Xiaodian industrial park in Xinxiang, the transportation convenience, environment daintiness.
公司位于新乡市小店工业园区, 交通便利, 环境优美.
10 One quite pities his daintiness in the narration of his sorrows, picturesquely set forth by that accomplished letter-writer arrived home to the safe seclusion of Strawberry Hill.
11 Although I could not see his fingers in action, I felt their daintiness, the way he willed them toward a kind of precision mine do not possess the ability to perform.
12 From the tip of her slim satin slipper to the ribbon in her hair, she was dressed with a daintiness which set her beauty proudly off.
13 She was perched with a certain daintiness upon Dirk Mackenzie’s water fykie, sipping a cup of coffee, her back crêpe draperies spread round her on the scrubby grass.
14 There is a daintiness and a delicacy to all of Ophelia's music; and in this short melody, so admirably blended with the accompaniment, there is a wooing charm that diverts even Hamlet from his grief.
15 His own house in a South London road, its sordid surroundings, its unsavoury neighbourhood, all these made Cicely and her daintiness, seem like some princess belonging to another world.
16 That shoe has so much grace and daintiness, it is so impossible for it to walk, that it seems to the mother as though she saw her child.
这种鞋又精美又小巧,穿着这种鞋是走不了路的,母亲看见这种鞋就象看见了自己的孩子一样。
17 Their adventures are related with the charming daintiness wherein French fabulists, from Perrault downwards, have excelled; and the book is a decided acquisition to the store of fairy literature in which all children delight.
18 I daresay this harmless ebullition of youthful daintiness would have proved the last straw to some of my Psalm-singing New England relatives.
19 Yet despite her physical daintiness in comparison to Mr. Driver’s looming heft, her Anna always seems in charge, like a nanny with an unruly, overgrown toddler.
20 the widow plied her suitor with dainties and endless glasses of sherry
2 美丽
well-looking pretty fine beautiful fair glad lovely superb fairy picturesque classy goodly comely bonny beauteous bonnie copperplate hyacinthine beauty fairness pulchritude comeliness beautify
3 娇小
4 讲究
particular elegant dainty daintily nice elaborate ritzy fussed recherche particularity particular about
5 优雅
fine elegant delicate refined polished exquisite graceful ethereal balletic elegantly gracefully smartly exquisitely daintily snappily class grace polish distinction elegance refinement nicety gracefulness refine swell-differous swellelegous classic modest fairy silky quaint posh silken genteel ladylike rosewater well-bred fairily concinnity cultivation amenity swank gentility urbanity classicality urbanize
6 美味
slobbergulluious delicious tasty delicate yummy nutty delectable tasteful scrumptious appetizing ambrosial dulcet ambrosian sunket sweetness relish delicacy dainty caviar manna cate caviare kitchen physic goluptious nice sweet luscious palatable sapid flavorous deliciously sapidity deliciousness bonne bouche