Subtlety
['sʌt(ə)ltɪ] or ['sʌtlti]
解释:
(noun.) the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze; 'you had to admire the subtlety of the distinctions he drew'.
校对:史蒂文--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The quality or state of being subtle, or sly; cunning; craftiness; artfulness.
(n.) Nice discernment with delicacy of mental action; nicety of discrimination.
(n.) Something that is sly, crafty, or delusive.
录入:凯思琳
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Craft, craftiness, cunning, artifice, astuteness, artfulness, subtleness, guile.[2]. Acuteness, acumen, keenness, shrewdness, discernment, intelligence, cleverness, sagacity.
校对:斯坦顿
例句:
- The Stoic tried to win men's hearts and convictions by sheer subtlety of abstract argument and dazzling sublimity of thought and expression. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- By a mixture of boasting, subtlety, and flattery he won over the young and ambitious Tsar, Alexander I--he was just thirty years old--to an alliance. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I was very much impressed, and not for the first time, by my guardian's subtlety. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- She framed her enquiries with Greek subtlety; she formed her conclusions with the decision and firmness peculiar to her disposition. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Public affairs govern our thinking and doing with subtlety and persistence. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Nothing else would do, nothing else would satisfy, except this coolness and subtlety of vegetation travelling into one's blood. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- His mind is lucid and flexible, and he has the faculty of taking advice quickly, of stating something he has borrowed with more ease and subtlety than the specialist from whom he got it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Indeed--indeed--when you were a mere boy I used to see both: far more then than now--for now you are strong, and strength dispenses with subtlety. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- The most crafty of her many subtleties was her feint of seeking to make the children fonder of me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- She had further to go, a further, slow exquisite experience to reap, unthinkable subtleties of sensation to know, before she was finished. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Of the last series of subtleties, Gerald was not capable. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- That joke was lost on the foreigner--guides can not master the subtleties of the American joke. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
校对:佩德罗