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词根:felicitous
adj.felicitous 恰当的;善于措辞的;幸福的
n.felicitousness 恰当
adjective
very well suited or expressed : apt handled the delicate matter in a most felicitous manner
a felicitous remark
pleasant, delightful The ride through the countryside is a felicitous journey for city people.
felicitous weather
The first known use of felicitous was in 1789
felicitynoun
great happiness : bliss
something that causes happiness
a pleasing manner or quality especially in art or language
a felicity with words
a suitable expression
felicitousadjective
very well suited or expressed
felicitous wording
pleasant sense 1, delightful
felicitousadjective
very well suited or expressed
felicitous wording
pleasant sense 1, delightful
1 The earlier knighthood is most felicitously portrayed in the legends of King Arthur, which are full of the most charming gallantry, the most finished courtesy, and the most daring bravery.
2 Those who can thus felicitously form certain decisions appertaining to their moral obligations, and having arrived at such decisions, can unswervingly follow the proscribed mode of conduct, should indeed be content.
3 His son, Thornton, felicitously said that all his life he was striving to open more widely the door of the library, and the windows that look out upon nature.
4 In other words, all the planets looked felicitously aligned for the sequel, and industry expectations for commercial performance were appropriately high.
5 The midpoint between those extremes is 41 percent, a number that felicitously resembles ratios between minimum and average wages in other advanced industrial countries.
6 But most of the other places have switched, I think quite felicitously, to brisket.
7 The felicitously named Penny Lane might be documentary film’s most compellingly cockamamie social historian.
8 These are felicitously doled out, making the book voicey without congealing into shtick.
9 Mr. Ratmansky, having unearthed several unfamiliar musical passages, fits the stage action to them felicitously.
10 He notes that, felicitously, the Obamas’ view from that house is the same one that John F. Kennedy had when he stayed at the home of Bing Crosby, which was a couple streets away.
11 He had, also, what in these pages is so felicitously expressed, "a haughty intellectual pride, and a willingness to pit his individual thought against the clamor of a world."
12 “Between the Frames” is wildly uneven and stylistically all over the place — felicitously so, because that means there are some real surprises in it.
13 His eggnog threw convention and caution to the wind and was felicitously named Bah Humbug.
14 The cake tasted like sweet wine, and Lilly felicitously hit upon its correct name, punch-tart, of which she was especially fond.
15 But in these very books, the story, however felicitously decorated, is not sustained by a severe architectural framework.
16 Advertisement Some of Sondheim’s best jokes are swallowed up in the imbalance between singers and orchestra, a situation exacerbated by a perhaps unanticipated and more felicitous problem: the audiences’ frequent boisterous response.
17 More than 150 racks of books on wheels were delivered by professional movers, including the felicitously named Samson Moving and Storage.
18 a felicitous accompaniment to dinner is provided by a pianist on weekends at the restaurant
19 The cold hues of death are warmed to the eye by the red rays of a candle held over him, and the flickering flare causing a Rembrandt-like effect, is very felicitously managed.
20 The most famous high priest of this temple was Gottsched, that old periwigged pate, whom our dear Goethe has so felicitously described in his memoirs.