Agreeable
[ə'griːəb(ə)l] or [ə'ɡriəbl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature; 'Is the plan agreeable to you?'; 'he's an agreeable fellow'; 'My idea of an agreeable person...is a person who agrees with me'- Disraeli; 'an agreeable manner' .
(adj.) prepared to agree or consent; 'agreeable to the plan' .
校對:马尔科姆--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste.
(a.) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
(a.) Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with.
(a.) In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.
奥德丽整理
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Suitable, fitting, fit, proper, meet, appropriate, befitting, conformable, correspondent, accordant, concordant, consonant.[2]. Pleasing, pleasant, pleasurable, grateful, gratifying, acceptable, welcome, good, goodly, delightful, charming, delectable, delicious, dulcet, sweet, to one's taste, to one's mind, after one's fancy.
贝丽尔整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Obliging, pleasant, accommodating, grateful, acceptable, welcome, suitable,consistent, consonant, amiable, gratifying, pleasing, good-natured,complaisant
ANT:Disobliging, unpleasant, unaccommodating, disagreeable, obnoxious, ungrateful,unwelcome, unacceptable, offensive
整理:利亚
例句/造句/用法:
- He was something agreeable to sit near, to hover round, to address and look at. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He was, in fact, the most agreeable young man the sisters had ever known, and they were equally delighted with him. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- I merely intend to make myself entrancingly agreeable to every one I know, and to keep them in your corner as long as possible. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Mrs. Elton is very good-natured and agreeable, and I dare say her acquaintance are just what they ought to be. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Guitar and mandolin are agreeable instruments for amateurs, but are never used in orchestral music. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- So Meg went down, wearing an injured look, and wasn't at all agreeable at breakfast time. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- He must think himself a most agreeable fellow; I could not do such a thing. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- That is all very proper and civil, I am sure, said Mrs. Bennet, and I dare say she is a very agreeable woman. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- The necessary steps back and forth from the breakfast room to the kitchen to prepare hot, crunchy toast made this portion of breakfast-getting a not agreeable feature. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Mr. Collins, to be sure, was neither sensible nor agreeable; his society was irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- During the intervals of pain from this grievous disease, he spent many cheerful hours, conversing in the most agreeable and instructive manner. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- He was a fluent, cheerful, agreeable talker. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Upon the whole, such taxes, therefore, are perhaps as agreeable to the three first of the four general maxims concerning taxation, as any other. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Will Ladislaw was delightfully agreeable at dinner the next day, and gave no opportunity for Mr. Casaubon to show disapprobation. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The heat of the sun on the vessel was excessive, the company strangers to me, and not very agreeable. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Wit, and a certain easy and disengaged behaviour, are qualities immediately agreeable to others, and command their love and esteem. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- They will have a great deal of money, and you will have none: it is your place to be humble, and to try to make yourself agreeable to them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- His sensitiveness to approbation, his hope of winning favor by an agreeable act, are made use of to induce action in another direction. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- We also approve of one, who is possessed of qualities, that are immediately agreeable to himself; though they be of no service to any mortal. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- We do not often look upon fine young men, well-bred and agreeable. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- It affords me the greatest pleasure to record now my agreeable disappointment in respect to his character. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- However, she is very agreeable, and Mrs. Bates too, in a different way. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He relinquished them with an agreeable smile, and combated with the door as if it were a wild beast. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Such kind friends, you know, Miss Woodhouse, one must always find agreeable, though every body seemed rather fagged after the morning's party. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Lady Middleton was more agreeable than her mother only in being more silent. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- No, I cannot dispute it, and I will not dispute it--Sir Percival is a very handsome and a very agreeable man. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Strange, when he has the art of making himself so agreeable. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- This strongly marked way of doing business made a strongly marked impression on me, and that not of an agreeable kind. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Freed from that he would have been as agreeable a specimen of rustic manhood as one would often see. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Mr. Skimpole was as agreeable at breakfast as he had been overnight. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
整理:利亚