beauties
基本解释
- n. 美丽,美的东西;美人(beauty的复数);美容化妆
词源解说
- 13世纪晚期进入英语,直接源自盎格鲁诺曼底语的beute,意为美人;最初源自拉丁语的bellus,意为漂亮,英俊。
用法辨析
- beauty的意思是“美”“漂亮”“美貌”,表示一种抽象概念,前面常加定冠词the。有时其前可加不定冠词a,表示“一种美”。
- beauty还可用于表达具体的人或物,即“漂亮的东西或人”,这时是可数名词,当beauty指人时,一般指女人或孩子,不指男人,指物时常指极好的样品、范例或指某物极具魅力或有吸引力的特点。
- beauty还可表示“好处”“精彩之处”,这时其前须加定冠词the。
n. (名词)
词组短语
- bring out the beauty of 发挥出…的美
- enhance the beauty of 给…增色
- enjoy the beautyties of nature 欣赏大自然的美
- preserve the beauty of 保持…的美
- delicate and quiet beauty 雅致而宁静的美
- natural beauty 自然美
用作名词 (n.)
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英英字典
- Beauty is the state or quality of being beautiful.
- A beauty is a beautiful woman.
- You can say that something is a beauty when you think it is very good.
- The beauties of something are its attractive qualities or features.
- Beauty is used to describe people, products, and activities that are concerned with making women look beautiful.
- If you say that a particular feature is the beauty of something, you mean that this feature is what makes the thing so good.
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专业释义
- 美夸克,艳,艳数(一种称为底夸克的夸克特性) (= bottom)