beauty
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈbjuː.ti]
- 美式音标 [ˈbjuː.t̬i]
- 国际音标 ['bju:ti]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n. 美；美丽；美人；美好的东西
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。
词根记忆
- BeautyandtheBeast(迪士尼出品的经典动画片《美女与野兽》)
同根派生
- adj性质的同根词
- beautiful：美丽的。
- beauteous：美丽的；美妙的。
- adv性质的同根词
- beautifully：漂亮地；美好地。
- n性质的同根词
- beaut：漂亮的东西或人。
- vi性质的同根词
- beautify：美化。
- vt性质的同根词
- beautify：使美化，使变美。
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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形容词+～
英英字典
- (BEING BEAUTIFUL) the quality of being pleasing, especially to look at, or someone or something that gives great pleasure, especially when you look at it
- (EXCELLENT THING) something that is an excellent example of its type
- (ADVANTAGE) a quality that makes something especially good or attractive
- 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
He classified beauty with ethic beauty and perceptive one.
他把美分为道德的美和感性的美。艺术学
- 美
Beauty has close relationship to emotion.
美与情感的关系自然是非常密切的。土木建筑工程
- 美丽
- 美