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precious

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源自中古英語 precious，借自古法語 precios (「珍貴的，昂貴的，寶貝的，至愛的；做作的」)，源自拉丁語 pretiōsus (「珍貴的，昂貴的」)，源自pretium (「價值，價格」)，參見price。

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precious (比較級 more precious，最高級 most precious)

  1. 昂貴的，珍貴的
    • 2013 8月 16, Polly Toynbee, 「Britain's booming birthrate」, 出自 The Guardian Weekly, 卷 189, 期 10，頁號 21:
      People are a good thing, the most precious resource in a rich economy, so the progressive-minded feel. Only misanthropists disagree or the dottier Malthusians who send green-ink tweets deploring any state assistance for child-rearing.
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    The crown had many precious gemstones.
    那個皇冠上鑲着很多昂貴的寶石。
  2. 珍愛的，至愛的，寶貝的
    My precious daughter is to marry.
    我的寶貝女兒要出嫁了。
  3. (貶義) 被過於崇敬的
    He spent hours painting the eyes of the portrait, which his fellow artists regarded as a bit precious.
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  4. (非正式，後接about) 過於珍視的，過於保護的
    Writers are often very precious about their work.
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    • 2016 11月 20, Katie Walsh, 「Why are Irish people so precious about Irishness?」, 出自 The Irish Times‎[1], Dublin: Irish Times Trust, →ISSN, →OCLC，2023-04-01歸檔自原頁面:
      Hearing what a struggle it was for her, I began to understand why some people are so precious about being Irish. Being second-generation Irish, she had the option to hide behind her accent. Instead she would thump her fist to defend Irish people from those speaking out against them.
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  5. (非正式，貶義) 該死的，他媽的
    • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:
      It’s all owing to your precious caution that they got hold of it. If you had let me burn it, and taken my word that it was gone, it would have been a heap of ashes behind the fire, instead of being whole and sound, inside of my great-coat.
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  6. (貶義) 矯揉造作的
    • 2012 5月 24, Nathan Rabin, 「Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3」, 出自 The Onion AV Club:
      In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist, but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man.
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  7. (口語) 十足的，徹底的
    a precious rascal
    徹頭徹尾的流氓

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precious (複數 preciouses)

  1. 受珍視的人或物；寶貝
    • 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit:
      「It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?」
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    • 1909, Mrs. Teignmouth Shore, The Pride of the Graftons，頁號 57:
      She sat down with the dogs in her lap. "I won't neglect you for any one, will I, my preciouses?"
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precious (不可比)

  1. 非常 （語氣加強，參見用法說明）
    There is precious little we can do.
    我們束手無策。
    Precious few pictures of him exist.
    拍他的照片很少。

用法說明 編輯

通常前接於few和little，用於slight、small、scant相當少見。且無論如何均用於修飾與「少，小，稀少」有關的詞。

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