Sociable
['səʊʃəb(ə)l] or ['soʃəbl]
解释:
(noun.) a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity.
(adj.) friendly and pleasant; 'a sociable gathering' .
(adj.) inclined to or conducive to companionship with others; 'a sociable occasion'; 'enjoyed a sociable chat'; 'a sociable conversation'; 'Americans are sociable and gregarious' .
录入:谢里夫--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable.
(n.) A carriage having two double seats facing each other, and a box for the driver.
贝蒂整理
同义词及近义词:
a. Companionable, SOCIAL, friendly, familiar, neighborly, conversable, inclined to society.
编辑:帕梅拉
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Companionable, genial, social, convertible, friendly, accessible, gregarious
ANT:Unsociable, uncompanionable, unconversable, ungenial, in_friendly,Inaccessible, re_iring, morose, solitary, uncommunicative
整理:纳撒尼尔
解释:
adj. inclined to society: fit for company: companionable: affording opportunities for intercourse.—n. a four-wheeled open carriage with seats facing: a tricycle for two persons side by side: a couch with a curved S-shaped back: (U.S.) an informal party a social church meeting.—ns. Sōciabil′ity Sō′ciableness quality of being sociable: good-fellowship.—adv. Sō′ciably.—adj. Sō′cial pertaining to society or companionship: relating to men united in a society: inclined for friendly intercourse: consisting in mutual converse: convivial: associating together gregarious: growing in patches.—v.t. Sō′cialise to reduce to a social state: to render social.—ns. Sō′cialism the name given to any one of various schemes for regenerating society by a more equal distribution of property and esp. by substituting the principle of association for that of competition; Sō′cialist an adherent of socialism.—adj. Socialist′ic.—ns. Social′ity Sō′cialness.—adv. Sō′cially.—adjs. Sō′ciātive expressing association; Societā′rian Socī′etary of or pertaining to society.—ns. Socī′ety fellowship companionship: a number of persons associated for a common interest: a community or partnership: the civilised body of mankind those who are recognised as the leaders in fashionable life the fashionable world generally: persons who associate: any organised association for purposes literary scientific philanthropic or ecclesiastical; Socī′ety-house a printing office which conforms to the rules of a trade-union; Socī′ety-verse poetry light and entertaining treating of the topics of society so called.—Social science sociology esp. the branch treating of the existing institutions of men as members of society the science which treats of social relations; Social War the war (90-88 b.c.) in which the Italian tribes known as the allies (Socii) fought for admission into Roman citizenship.—Socialism of the Chair a term first applied about 1872 in ridicule to the doctrines of a school of political economists in Germany whose aim was mainly to better the condition of the working-classes through remedial state-legislation by factory-acts savings-banks insurances against sickness and old age shortening the hours of labour sanitation &c.—also called Professorial socialism and having much the same ends and methods as the State socialism of Bismarck.—Christian socialism a movement for applying Christian ethics to social reform led by Maurice Kingsley and others about 1848-52.—The societies bodies that began to be organised in 1681 for the maintenance of Presbyterian worship in the face of persecution—ultimately forming the Reformed Presbyterian Church.
编辑:特鲁迪
例句:
- The Grants showing a disposition to be friendly and sociable, gave great satisfaction in the main among their new acquaintance. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- I do not care particularly about that, only I do not like to see a horse too sociable. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- At least I never saw a man who was more sociable on a short acquaintance. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- They are very sociable, and will smile back when a stranger smiles at them, bow back when he bows, and talk back if he speaks to them. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- We had a sociable company in the cabin, and lived uncommonly well, having the addition of all Mr. Hamilton's stores, who had laid in plentifully. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- I never saw a more sociable man. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- That florid sociable personage was become more interesting to him since he had seen Rosamond. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The passengers are not garrulous, but still they are sociable. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Try to be sociable at the Lambs'. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- There are some pleasant people in the house if you feel sociable, and your evenings are always free. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Adams, already referred to as facile princeps the typical telegrapher in all his more sociable and brilliant aspects. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Ye see, I'm going to get up a prime gang to take down with ye, Tom; it'll make it sociable and pleasant like,--good company will, ye know. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Notwithstanding my lawless habits, my disposition was sociable, hers recluse. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- It so happened that Beth's funny loan was just the thing, for in laughing over the kits, Laurie forgot his bashfulness, and grew sociable at once. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- We were very gay and sociable, and I asked him, in the course of conversation, what he was? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
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