handsome

• adj. （男子）英俊的；可觀的；大方的，慷慨的；健美而端莊的

來自hand的引申義，即手邊的，方便的，-some,形容詞後綴。後來引申靈巧的，體貼的，大方的，慷慨的等多種詞義，但主要用於形容男子瀟灑的，英俊的，實質上即暖男。

handsome

handsome: see hand

handsome (adj.)

c. 1400, handsom "easy to handle, ready at hand," from hand (n.) + -some (1). Sense extended to "fit, appropriate" (1550s, implied in handsomely), then "having fine form, good-looking, agreeable to the eye" (1580s). Meaning "generous, on a liberal scale" (of rewards, etc.) first recorded 1680s.

[Americans] use the word "handsome" much more extensively than we do: saying that Webster made a handsome speech in the Senate: that a lady talks handsomely, (eloquently:) that a book sells handsomely. A gentleman asked me on the Catskill Mountain, whether I thought the sun handsomer there than at New York. [Harriet Martineau, "Society in America," 1837]

Related: Handsomeness. For sense development, compare pretty (adj.). Similar formation in Dutch handzaam "tractable, serviceable."

1. The opposition won a handsome victory in the election.

反對黨在競選中以高票獲勝。

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2. Tom was in some ways a younger clone of his handsome father.

湯姆某些地方長得和他那帥氣的父親一模一樣，隻是年輕一些。

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3. He was a slim, solemn, darkly handsome young man.

他是個身材修長、表情莊重、皮膚黝黑的帥小夥。

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4. He was handsome in a raffish kind of way.

他的帥是一種放蕩不羈的帥。

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5. "He used to be so handsome." — "And now?"

“他以前是那麽英俊。”——“那麽現在呢？”

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