precious

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英语

其他形式

• pretious (棄用)

词源

源自中古英語 precious，借自古法語 precios (“珍贵的，昂贵的，宝贝的，至爱的；做作的”)，源自拉丁語 pretiōsus (“珍贵的，昂贵的”)，源自pretium (“价值，价格”)，参见price。

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈpɹɛʃ.əs/

• （美国）音频：

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• 韻部：-ɛʃəs

形容词

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

1. 昂贵的，珍贵的
   • 2013年8月16日, Polly Toynbee, “Britain's booming birthrate”, 出自 The Guardian Weekly, 第 189 卷, 第 10 期，第 21 頁:

     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.

   那个皇冠上镶着很多昂贵的宝石。

2. 珍爱的，至爱的，宝贝的

   My precious daughter is to marry.

   我的宝贝女儿要出嫁了。

3. (貶義) 被过于崇敬的

   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，后接about) 过于珍视的，过于保护的

   Writers are often very precious about their work.

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   • 2016年11月20日, 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) 该死的，他妈的
   • 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) 矫揉造作的
   • 2012年5月24日, 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，彻底的

   a precious rascal

   彻头彻尾的流氓

近义词

• (昂贵)： dear、valuable
• (矫揉造作)： saccharine、syrupy、twee

衍生词汇

• eight-precious
• non-precious
• nonprecious
• Precious Blood
• precious coral
• preciously
• precious metal
• preciousness
• precious stone
• semi-precious
• semiprecious

 

相关词汇

• appraise
• appreciate
• depreciate
• praise
• preciosity
• precious few
• precious little
• price

 

名词

precious (複數 preciouses)

1. 受珍视的人或物；宝贝
   • 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，第 57 頁:

     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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副词

precious (不可比)

1. 非常 （语气加强，参见用法说明）

   There is precious little we can do.

   我们束手无策。

   Precious few pictures of him exist.

   拍他的照片很少。

用法说明

通常前接于few和little，用于slight、small、scant相当少见。且无论如何均用于修饰与“少，小，稀少”有关的词。

延伸阅读

• precious在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 ^en
• “precious”，Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary，Springfield, Mass.：G. & C. Merriam，1913年，OCLC 800618302
• “precious”，The Century Dictionary […]，New York, N.Y.：The Century Co.，1911，OCLC 867766587