svelte
英語
編輯詞源
編輯源自法語 svelte,源自意大利語 svelto (「伸出的」),svellere (「拔,使...伸展」)的過去分詞,源自通俗拉丁語 *exvellere,源自ex + vellere (「拔,扯」)。
發音
編輯形容詞
編輯svelte (比較級 svelter,最高級 sveltest)
- 苗條的,纖美的,纖細的 (自19世紀10年代)
- 1990, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet, 出版於 2008,第 24 頁:
- Psychoanalytic theory […] seemed to promise to introduce a certain becoming amplitude into discussions of what different people are like — only to turn, in its streamlined trajectory across so many institutional boundaries, into the sveltest of metatheoretical disciplines, sleeked down to such elegant operational entities as the mother, the father, the preoedipal, the oedipal, the other or Other.
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- 2007年1月19日, Charles Isherwood, 「Welterweight Bialystock Treads Softly on Big Shtick」, 出自 New York Times[1]:
- Clearly the producers of “The Producers” were so little inclined to tinker with a winning formula that they chose not to excise a few lines of dialogue to accommodate the svelter physique of their new leading man, preposterous though it is that anyone in a fit of pique would deride a fellow as “once-husky.”
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- 優雅的,優美的
- 1942, Beryl Markham, West with the Night:
- Peering down from the cockpit at grazing elephant, you have the feeling that what you are beholding is wonderful, but not authentic. It is not only incongruous in the sense that animals simply are not as big as trees, but also in the sense that the twentieth century, tidy and svelte with stainless steel as it is, would not possibly permit such prehistoric monsters to wander in its garden.
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- 2023年8月5日, Simon Hattenstone, 「Labour MP Chris Bryant on cleaning up parliament, and why he’s not afraid to pick a fight: 『I’ve got in more scrapes than most people’」, 出自 The Guardian[2]:
- At 61, Bryant looks good – smart and svelte in an electric blue suit, youthful, a full head of hair except for a white scar at the back that looks like a side door into his brain.
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用法說明
編輯一般用作褒義,而thin、scrawny和skinny等詞常帶負面色彩。
近義詞
編輯異序詞
編輯法語
編輯詞源
編輯發音
編輯形容詞
編輯svelte (複數 sveltes)
延伸閱讀
編輯- 查看「svelte」在 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé [法語數位化寶典] 中的釋義。
意大利語
編輯發音
編輯形容詞
編輯svelte f 複
分詞
編輯svelte f 複
參考資料
編輯- ↑ svelto in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
新挪威語
編輯詞源 1
編輯源自古諾爾斯語 svelta,源自原始日耳曼語 *sweltaną。名詞派生自動詞。
動詞
編輯svelte (過去式 svelt,過去式 svalt,動名詞 svolte,過去分詞 svolten,現在分詞 sveltande,命令式 svelt)
其他形式
編輯- svelta (a-不定式)
衍生詞彙
編輯名詞
編輯詞源 2
編輯svelte(詞源1)的使役形。源自古諾爾斯語 svelta,源自原始日耳曼語 *swaltijaną。
動詞
編輯svelte (現在時 svelter,過去式 svelte,過去分詞 svelt,被動不定式 sveltast,現在分詞 sveltande,命令式 svelt)
其他形式
編輯- svelta (a-不定式)
衍生詞彙
編輯參考資料
編輯- 「svelte」在 新挪威語詞典中的解釋。