Courtesy
['kɜːtɪsɪ] or ['kɝtəsi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a courteous or respectful or considerate act.
(noun.) a courteous manner.
(noun.) a courteous or respectful or considerate remark.
亚历克斯編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness.
(n.) An act of civility or respect; an act of kindness or favor performed with politeness.
(n.) Favor or indulgence, as distinguished from right; as, a title given one by courtesy.
(n.) An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees.
(v. i.) To make a respectful salutation or movement of respect; esp. (with reference to women), to bow the body slightly, with bending of the knes.
(v. t.) To treat with civility.
手打:波莱特
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Politeness, courteousness, civility, urbanity, complaisance, affability, good-breeding, elegance of manners.
v. n. Make a courtesy.
錄入:索尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Politeness, urbanity, civility, affability, graciousness
ANT:Churlishness, rudeness, arrogance, ungraciousness, incivility
艾迪整理
解釋/意思:
n. courtliness: elegance of manner: an act of civility or respect: a curtsy: (law) the life interest which the surviving husband has in the real or heritable estate of his wife.—v.i. to make a curtsy.—pr.p. court′esying; pa.p. court′esied.—n.pl. Court′esy-tī′tles titles really invalid but allowed by the usage of society—as to children of peers.
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例句/造句/用法:
- And Mr. Laurence offered her his arm with old-fashioned courtesy. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Gurth thanked the Captain for his courtesy, and promised to attend to his recommendation. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Then he went forward, with quick, graceful, intentional courtesy. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The Lady Rowena, he said, possesses not the language in which to reply to your courtesy, or to sustain her part in your festival. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Only by courtesy can such an experience be called experience. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I think he bowed; if he did, I had no time to return the courtesy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Pictorial Story of the Airship [Illustration: A PUSHER OF SEVERAL YEARS AGO, WITH MANY OF THE MORE PROMINENT AIR-MEN _Courtesy of The Curtis Aeroplane Co. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He greeted us with a stately courtesy and seated himself at his desk, his red beard streaming down on the table. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Primitive men of the Stone Age used an implement that might by courtesy be called a spoon. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- His efforts at exact courtesy and formal tenderness had no defect for her. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I declined it of course, with all the courtesy I could put into my manner; she danced off heedless and lightsome. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Come, friends, she added, changing at once from bluntness to courtesy, oblige me by taking your cans and going home. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She consents, of course, as a matter of common courtesy and common justice, he said. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- In his fourth combat with De Grantmesnil, the Disinherited Knight showed as much courtesy as he had hitherto evinced courage and dexterity. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- You have not valued my courtesy--the courtesy of a lady in loving you--who used to think of far more ambitious things. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Were the pride of ancestry, the patrician spirit, the gentle courtesies and refined pursuits, splendid attributes of rank, to be erased among us? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Letters have been issued by the government commending the party to courtesies abroad. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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