delicate
/ˈdɛl.ɪ.kɪt/ 形容词 B1中文： 微妙、纤巧、娇嫩、精巧
- Easily damaged or requiring careful handling. · Those clothes are made from delicate lace.· The negotiations were very delicate.
- Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines. · Her face was delicate.· The spider wove a delicate web.
- Intended for use with fragile items. · Set the washing machine to the delicate cycle.
- Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings. · delicate behaviour· delicate attentions
- Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship. · a delicate child· delicate health
- Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol. · Please don't speak so loudly: I'm feeling a bit delicate this morning.
- Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste. · a delicate dish· delicate flavour
- Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
比较级 delicater · 最高级 delicatest
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Some of his own holdings were imperilled, and the man was working like some high-geared, delicate, strong machine—strung to full tension, going at full speed, accurate, never hesitating, with the proper word and decision and act ready and prompt as clockwork.
And through the window came a wandering—perhaps a lost—odour—a delicate, sweet odour of lilac that fixed the broker for a moment immovable.
That bridge led Anne’s dancing feet up over a wooded hill beyond, where perpetual twilight reigned under the straight, thick-growing firs and spruces; the only flowers there were myriads of delicate “June bells,” those shyest and sweetest of woodland blooms, and a few pale, aerial starflowers, like the spirits of last year’s blossoms.
There were rosy bleeding-hearts and great splendid crimson peonies; white, fragrant narcissi and thorny, sweet Scotch roses; pink and blue and white columbines and lilac-tinted Bouncing Bets; clumps of southernwood and ribbon grass and mint; purple Adam-and-Eve, daffodils, and masses of sweet clover white with its delicate, fragrant, feathery sprays; scarlet lightning that shot its fiery lances over prim white musk-flowers; a garden it was where sunshine lingered and bees hummed, and winds, beguiled into loitering, purred and rustled.
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