dainty
英 ['deɪntɪ]
美 ['denti]
- adj. 美味的；講究的；秀麗的；挑剔的
- n. 美味
助記提示
1. 諧音“燉蹄”----燉豬蹄----燉的豬蹄，當然是很香、很美味啦。
2. dignity <====> dainty：反正就是形容非常好的、非常有價值的東西.
3. 諧音“得體”-----舉止、穿著很得體的人，都是很優雅的，優美的，好看的，雅致的。
中文詞源
dainty 嬌美的來自法語，詞源同dignity, 尊貴，美麗，字母g脫落。
英文詞源
- dainty
- dainty: [13] In origin, dainty is the same word as dignity. The direct descendant of Latin dignitās in Old French was daintie or deintie, but Old French later reborrowed the word as dignete. It was the latter that became English dignity, but daintie took a route via Anglo-Norman dainte to give English dainty. At first it meant ‘honour, esteem’, but before a century was up it had passed through ‘pleasure, joy’ to ‘something choice, luxury’. The first record of its adjectival use comes in the 14th century, when it meant ‘choice, excellent, delightful’; this soon developed to ‘delicately pretty’.
=> dignity - dainty (n.)
- c. 1300, "excellence, elegance; a luxury," from Old French deintie (12c.) "price, value," also "delicacy, pleasure," from Latin dignitatem (nominative dignitas) "greatness, rank, worthiness, worth, beauty," from dignus "worthy" (see dignity).
- dainty (adj.)
- c. 1300, deinte, "delightful, pleasing," from dainty (n.). Meaning evolved in Middle English to "choice, excellent" (late 14c.) to "delicately pretty." Related: Daintiness.
雙語例句
- 1. a dainty porcelain cup
- 小巧玲瓏的瓷杯
來自《權威詞典》
- 2. The little girl wore a dainty dress.
- 小姑娘穿著一件漂亮的連衣裙.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. The violet is a dainty spring flower.
- 紫羅蘭是嬌豔的春花.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 4. She is dainty about her eating.
- 她講究飲食.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 5. It featured a solo dance in which a woman in a short overall mimed a lot of dainty housework.
- 它的亮點是一段獨舞，一名身穿短罩衫的女子以啞劇形式優雅地表演了許多做家務的動作。
來自柯林斯例句