gracious
英 ['greɪʃəs]
美['ɡreʃəs]
英英释义
实用场景例句
近义词kindly good pleasant merciful nice cordial generous friendly respectful hospitable sympathetic polite clement obliging
反义词
- adj. 亲切的；高尚的；和蔼的；雅致的
- int. 天哪；哎呀
词态变化
副词: graciously;名词: graciousness;
中文词源
gracious 优雅的
来自grace, 优雅。
英文词源
- gracious (adj.)
- c. 1300, "filled with God's grace," from Old French gracios "courteous, pleasing, kind, friendly" (12c., Modern French gracieux), from Latin gratiosus "enjoying favor, agreeable, obliging; popular, acceptable," from gratia (see grace (n.)). Meaning "merciful, benevolent" is from late 14c. As an exclamation, elliptically for gracious God, attested from 1713.
双语例句
- 1. Good gracious, look at that specimen will you?
- 哎呀，你快来瞧瞧那个标本！
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. He has not yet learned how to be gracious in defeat.
- 他还没有学会怎样豁达大度地面对失败。
来自《权威词典》
- 3. All this gracious living isn't for me; I prefer the simple life.
- 这优裕的生活不适合我, 我宁愿过简朴的生活.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. She was , to the end, a gentlewoman of the old school , gracious and mannerly.
- 说到底, 她仍是一位温文尔雅 、 礼貌可嘉的守旧派的贵妇人.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. She was gracious enough to show us round her home.
- 她彬彬有礼地领我们参观了她的家.
来自《简明英汉词典》