nimble
英語
編輯詞源
編輯源自中古英語 nymyl、nemel、nemyll、nymell (「敏捷的,迅捷的;準備就緒的;有能的」),古英語 nǣmel (「善於學習的」)和古英語 numol (「能夠拿穩的」)的合併形式,兩者均源自niman (「拿,取」) + -el、-ol (聯想後綴),等價於nim + -le。對比德語 nehmen、哥特語 𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (niman)、古諾爾斯語 nema (「拿」)。詳見nim。
發音
編輯形容詞
編輯nimble (比較級 nimbler,最高級 nimblest)
- 擅長抓取的
- nimble fingers
- 抓東西靈活的指頭
- 迅捷的,敏捷的
- He was too nimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp.
- 襲擊者不敵他靈活的動作,他輕鬆掙脫了襲擊者的手。
- 1988, The Economist (volume 306, issues 7532-7539, page 13)
- Attempts to introduce versions of "market communism" — in China, Hungary or Yugoslavia — have shown how hard it is to make mainly state-owned economies as nimble as mainly private ones.
- 機敏謹慎的
- She has a nimble mind and can improvise in any situation.
- 她非常機敏,在任何場合都能隨機應變。
- 2020年5月20日, 「Merriman praised over handling of TSC's 'virtual' transition」, 出自 Rail,第 12 頁:
- "It requires you to be flexible and nimble in your thinking and Huw has already demonstrated that," said Greenwood, [...]
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反義詞
編輯- (敏捷): sluggish
衍生詞彙
編輯動詞
編輯nimble (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 nimbles,現在分詞 nimbling,一般過去時及過去分詞 nimbled)
- (不及物) 敏捷地移動
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings,第 72 頁:
- Their teeth are regularly and assiduously cleaned by shrimp that nimble in and out of the moray's mouth like ballet dancers in the jaws of a mechanical stage dragon.
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