Curtsy
['kɜːtsɪ] or ['kɝtsi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women.
(verb.) make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect; 'She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand'.
(verb.) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting.
克利奥校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Same as Courtesy, an act of respect.
整理:薇尔玛
解釋/意思:
n. an obeisance made by bending the knees proper to women and children.—v.i. to make a curtsy.
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例句/造句/用法:
- He just moved, in acknowledgment of her curtsy, but did not rise. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Charley, with her best curtsy, blushingly tied on her bonnet and went her way. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- There was evidently nothing for it but to go, and Donne made his exodus, the heiress sweeping him a deep curtsy as she closed the gates on him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- My Lady is looking charmingly well, says Mrs. Rouncewell with another curtsy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Miss Flite received the compliment with complacency and dropped a general curtsy to us. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Mrs. Rouncewell is in attendance and receives Sir Leicester's customary shake of the hand with a profound curtsy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- And I made him my curtsy and left him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Waiting no comment, I curtsied to the trioand withdrew. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- As I passed close to the woman into whose hands I had placed my pound-note, she smiled and curtsied affectedly. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- You are out early, ma'am, said I as she curtsied to me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I curtsied to a little blue-eyed fair man of youthful appearance with flaxen hair parted in the middle and curling at the ends all round his head. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- And what good could his wife get, he urged, by making curtsies every night to a whole circle of Princesses? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Their ladyships made three stately curtsies, and the elder lady to be sure gave her hand to the newcomer, but it was as cold and lifeless as marble. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Truly, there she was, immediately in front of us, curtsying, and smiling, and saying with her yesterday's air of patronage, The wards in Jarndyce! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I was not mad at that time, curtsying low and smiling between every little sentence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Now it was the little mad woman worn out with curtsying and smiling, now some one in authority at Bleak House. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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