dainty
英 ['deɪntɪ]
美 ['denti]
- adj. 美味的；讲究的；秀丽的；挑剔的
- n. 美味
助记提示
1. 谐音“炖蹄”----炖猪蹄----炖的猪蹄，当然是很香、很美味啦。
2. dignity <====> dainty：反正就是形容非常好的、非常有价值的东西.
3. 谐音“得体”-----举止、穿着很得体的人，都是很优雅的，优美的，好看的，雅致的。
中文词源
dainty 娇美的来自法语，词源同dignity, 尊贵，美丽，字母g脱落。
英文词源
- dainty
- dainty: [13] In origin, dainty is the same word as dignity. The direct descendant of Latin dignitās in Old French was daintie or deintie, but Old French later reborrowed the word as dignete. It was the latter that became English dignity, but daintie took a route via Anglo-Norman dainte to give English dainty. At first it meant ‘honour, esteem’, but before a century was up it had passed through ‘pleasure, joy’ to ‘something choice, luxury’. The first record of its adjectival use comes in the 14th century, when it meant ‘choice, excellent, delightful’; this soon developed to ‘delicately pretty’.
=> dignity - dainty (n.)
- c. 1300, "excellence, elegance; a luxury," from Old French deintie (12c.) "price, value," also "delicacy, pleasure," from Latin dignitatem (nominative dignitas) "greatness, rank, worthiness, worth, beauty," from dignus "worthy" (see dignity).
- dainty (adj.)
- c. 1300, deinte, "delightful, pleasing," from dainty (n.). Meaning evolved in Middle English to "choice, excellent" (late 14c.) to "delicately pretty." Related: Daintiness.
双语例句
- 1. a dainty porcelain cup
- 小巧玲珑的瓷杯
来自《权威词典》
- 2. The little girl wore a dainty dress.
- 小姑娘穿着一件漂亮的连衣裙.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. The violet is a dainty spring flower.
- 紫罗兰是娇艳的春花.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 4. She is dainty about her eating.
- 她讲究饮食.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 5. It featured a solo dance in which a woman in a short overall mimed a lot of dainty housework.
- 它的亮点是一段独舞，一名身穿短罩衫的女子以哑剧形式优雅地表演了许多做家务的动作。
来自柯林斯例句
