Neat
[niːt] or [nit]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) without water; 'took his whiskey neat' .
(adj.) free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; 'a neat style'; 'a neat set of rules'; 'she hated to have her neat plans upset' .
(adj.) clean or organized; 'her neat dress'; 'a neat room' .
(adj.) showing care in execution; 'neat homework'; 'neat handwriting' .
约瑟芬校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n. sing. & pl.) Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot.
(n.) Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus; as, neat cattle.
(a.) Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy.
(a.) Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.
(a.) Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as, neat brandy.
(a.) Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.
(a.) With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.]
坎迪編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Clean, cleanly, unsoiled, tidy, spotless, unsullied, immaculate, unstained, pure.[2]. Nice, spruce, trim.[3]. Chaste, simple, in good taste.
黛安娜校對
同義詞及反義詞:
[See TIDY]
編輯:普鲁登斯
解釋/意思:
adj. trim: tidy: clean: well-shaped: without mixture or adulteration: finished adroit clever skilful.—adj. Neat′-hand′ed dexterous.—adv. Neat′ly.—n. Neat′ness.
adj. belonging to the bovine genus.—n. black-cattle: an ox or cow.—ns. Neat′-herd one who herds or has the care of neat or cattle; Neat′-house a building for the shelter of neat-cattle.—Neat's-foot oil an oil obtained from the feet of oxen; Neat's leather leather made of the hides of neat-cattle.
布里茨校對
例句/造句/用法:
- He was always well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- A small green court was the whole of its demesne in front; and a neat wicket gate admitted them into it. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- He took a neat little leather case out of a drawer, and opening it he exhibited a number of shining instruments. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Even then, I would have avoided the room where they all were, but for its being the neat-tiled kitchen I have mentioned more than once. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Lucy was a very neat, lady-like little creature, who used to wear very fine muslin gowns, ornamented with her own beautiful embroidery. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Not so heavy as they might be,' said the Jew, after looking at the insides carefully; 'but very neat and nicely made. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Step into this neat garden-house on the skirts of Whinbury, walk forward into the little parlour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- When the coach stopped, a very neat lady looked up at the window and said, Miss Donny. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- These piles are perhaps three or four feet high, and are so neat and true that they appear to have been the work of a master mason. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- There, she said, it is not heavy, and will not shame your neat toilette, as if it were a household, servant-like detail. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It's just neater. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Model one in putty or clay, you could not make a better or straighteror neater; and then, such classic lips and chin--and his bearing--sublime. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- And it was made neater by there really being two halls in the house, a front 'un and a back 'un, besides the servants'. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The copies and the original are neater than when water is used. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- You are a neater figure than the Marquis of Lorne; said I to Frederick, wishing to think so. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- And she pleased herself by writing in the fly-leaf in her neatest little hand, George Osborne, A Christmas gift from his affectionate mother. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- We took off our shoes and went into the marble mausoleum of the Sultan Mahmoud, the neatest piece of architecture, inside, that I have seen lately. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- From a girl she had the neatest ways, and was always good-hearted, and as open as the day. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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