handsome
英语 编辑
词源 编辑
继承自中古英语 handsum、hondsom,等同于hand + -some。对照荷兰语 handzaam、德国低地德语 handsaam。原意是指“容易处理和使用”,因此便出现了“合适的”和“灵巧的,聪明的”等含义(16世纪中期),并产生了表示欣赏的现代化含义(16世纪晚期)。
发音 编辑
- 国际音标(帮助):/ˈhæn.səm/[1]或偶尔读作/ˈhænd.səm/[2]~/ˈhænt.səm/[3]
音频 (美国) (文档) 音频 (英国) (文档) - 韵部:-ænsəm
- 断字:hand‧some
- 同音词:Hansom (典型)
形容词 编辑
handsome (比较级 more handsome 或 handsomer,最高级 most handsome 或 handsomest)
- 外表英俊、帅气、有吸引力,好看
- Template:RQ:Pepys Diary
- 1916, On H.R. 4683, site for post-office building at Chicago, Ill,页号 117:
- On the opposite side of the street, on the corner, is the city hall, a very handsome building of brick and stone.
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- 1917, Anton Chekhov, 译者 Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories[1], Project Gutenberg, →ISBN,页号 71:
- The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.
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- 2006, Richard Leviton, The Gods in Their Cities, iUniverse, →ISBN,页号 44:
- Often, human mortals describe their visits to the Tuatha's [places] in similar terms: they were great bright places, occupied by exceedingly handsome men and women, that sported wonderful crystal chairs, inexhaustible supplies of mead or ale ...
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- That is one handsome tree you've got there.
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- ↑ “handsome”, Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present
- ↑ “handsome” in the Collins English Dictionary
- ↑ “handsome” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.