gracious
英 [ˈɡreɪ.ʃəs]
美 [ˈɡreɪ.ʃəs]
- adj. 亲切的；高尚的；和蔼的；雅致的
- int. 天哪；哎呀
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记忆方法
记忆“gracious”的方法是将它拆分为“gra”和“cious”。想象一个“g”形状的树，树枝上挂着“cious”的果实。树因为果实而显得“graceful”（优雅），这个树的优雅也代表着“gracious”（亲切、和蔼）的意思。
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中文词源
gracious 优雅的
来自grace, 优雅。
英语词源
- 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.
权威例句
- 1. Good gracious, look at that specimen will you?
- 哎呀，你快来瞧瞧那个标本！
- 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。
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.