英:[svelt]
美:[svɛlt]
英:[svelt]
美:[svɛlt]
比较级:svelter或more svelte
最高级:sveltest或most svelte
sveltely (adj.), svelteness (n.)
"his polished manner"
"maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
"she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"
"a slim girl with straight blonde hair"
"watched her slight figure cross the street"
"纤细的,柔软的",1817年, svelt,源自法语 svelte "纤细的,苗条的"(17世纪),源自意大利 svelto "纤细的,苗条的",最初意为"拉长,延伸",是 svellere "拔出或根除"的过去分词,源自通俗拉丁语 *exvellere,源自拉丁语 ex- "出"(参见 ex-)+ vellere "拔出,伸展",源自 PIE *wel-no-, *uelh- "打击"的带后缀形式(源头还包括赫梯语 ualh- "打击,敲击",希腊语 aliskomai "被捕捉")。
French, from Italian svelto, from past participle of svellere to pluck out, modification of Latin evellere, from e- + vellere to pluck — more at vulnerable
The first known use of svelte was circa 1817
svelteadjective
slender and graceful in form
1 And finally, Roland, their adored, impressive brother, arrives with his teenage daughter and his new — third — wife, a svelte Argentinian who makes the sisters feel dowdy and parochial.
2 Their recognizable faces and svelte forms “were used to sell dress silks, knitwear, skin-care creams, soap, biscuits, chocolate and cigarettes,” Michele Majer, the exhibition’s main curator, writes in the catalog, from Yale University Press.
3 Gone is the lumbering beast in favour of a svelte Eckhart who fights with kali sticks and is battling two ancient clans.
4 Ms. Lamb is svelte, elegant, picture pretty, intelligent, fascinatingly unknowable.
5 Fast-forward three decades to find the designer dressing another icon, this one more animated, and certainly more svelte.
6 The Complexions style, exemplified by Mr. Rhoden’s hyperactive choreography, is aggressively showy, designed to flaunt the svelte musculature, extreme flexibility and athletic prowess of its ultrafit dancers.
7 Meanwhile, writers from the 1830s and 1840s prodded men to aspire to svelte bodies, strong trunks and no excess body fat.
8 The other lady of the ensemble, a svelte twilight soubrette, objects to my having, so to speak, photographed her in her old housecoat.
9 All Americans crave to be svelte and rich.
所有的美国人都渴望身材苗条和富有。
10 Woods, I surmised, had rendered the translation of the German word “etwas” as “slitely,” rather than “slightly,” to make the word look svelte, like the neck it describes.
11 The svelte blond with sparkling blue eyes is giving me a tour of the organic garden at her home in Atherton, California.
12 Her figure is svelte.
她身材苗条。
13 On his impressive debut album, “Birckhead,” his R&B sojourns and his straight-ahead jazz background come to bear, resulting in a sound that skates the divide between svelte swagger and cutting passion.
14 See, pretentious is another adjective easily hung on my svelte 20-year-old frame.
15 McEwan, who’s spent more time on the Booker shortlist than in church, has produced a svelte novel as crisp and spotless as a priest’s collar.
16 This svelte tale tells the story of a British High Court judge facing an especially challenging case: a teen refusing life-saving medical treatment.
17 Taking in the city’s festivities on a mild spring day, surrounded by svelte Dutch bikers and well-tended flowerbeds, I was reminded of the extent to which Bosch’s imagery has escaped its original moorings.
18 Envelope the yarn at night slack month spring, Ping is svelte .
春天的夜晚,淡月笼纱,娉娉婷婷。
19 Incandescent red lipstick followed, as did a svelte faux fur coat — another gift.
20 Going from super-svelte to not quite as svelte, getting paid handsomely to go on a donut and beer binge -- these do things do not rate highly on the nightmare list of most ordinary folk.
1 光滑
smooth sleek marble slick glossy satin satiny lubricious waxen sleekit glary polish velvet lubricity sleeken surface gloss levigate
4 细长的
spindling long slight linear slim slit slender elongated elongate slimline spindly spidery gracile slab-sided jimp lathy slim-jim slitty flagelliform capillary lanky reedy lank rattail slimjim threadlike
6 流畅的
easy current round smooth liquid fluid flowing fluent facile voluble mellifluent profluent cantabile
7 文雅的
quiet decent elegant gentle finished polished humane gracious civilized dainty suave urbane debonair decorous maidenly Chesterfieldian pure polite attic cultivated genteel couth
8 流畅
easy current round smooth liquid fluid flowing fluent facile voluble mellifluent profluent currently easily tripping volubly cantabile facility flow pace liquidity fluency volubility mellifluence run
10 文雅
quiet decent elegant gentle finished polished humane gracious civilized dainty suave urbane debonair decorous maidenly Chesterfieldian gently prettily finish grace distinction gentility urbanity suavity gentilesse civilize pure polite attic cultivated genteel couth politesse urbanize
11 柔和
soft smooth liquid mild gentle tender pastel bland supple subdued meek maidenly lento maidenlike mildly grazioso facility softness mildness maidenliness soften mellow scumble
12 细长
spindling long slight linear slim slit slender elongated elongate slimline spindly spidery gracile slab-sided jimp lathy slim-jim flagelliform capillary lanky reedy lank rattail slimjim slightly slenderize threadlike
13 柔软
soft flexible limp waxy balmy emollient downy lithe pliant lissome crumby lithesome supple soften limber