precious

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈpreʃ.əs]
• 美式音标 [ˈpreʃ.əs]
• 国际音标 ['preʃəs]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• adj. 宝贵的；珍贵的；矫揉造作的
• n. (Precious)人名；(英)普雷舍斯，普雷舍丝(女名)

词源解说

• 13世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古法语的precios；最初源自拉丁语的pretiosus，意为价值，价格。

词根记忆

• preci(价值) + ous(…的)→有价值的→珍贵的，宝贵的
• preci(价值) + ous(…的)→有价值的→珍贵的；贵重的
• prec(价值) + ious→有价值的→贵重的
• preci(价值) + ous(…的)→有价值的→宝贵的，珍贵的

同根派生

• adv性质的同根词

  preciously：昂贵地；仔细地；过分讲究地。

• n性质的同根词

  preciousness：珍贵；过分讲究。

• precious相关词

用法辨析

adj. (形容词)

• precious指的是事物内在的价值,常常由于稀有而宝贵,即“宝贵的,珍贵的,贵重的,珍爱的”,这种珍贵无法用钱衡量,失掉后无法补偿。precious可修饰具体名词,也可修饰抽象名词,还可修饰人和人的感情。有时也用于反语,有讽刺意味,这时无比较级和最高级形式。
• precious也可指语言风格或举止“过于矫揉造作的,过分讲究的”,常用于贬义。
• precious在口语中还可表示“十足的”“完全的”,用于加强语气。

• precious使用方法
• precious详细辨析

英汉例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

用作定语: ～+ n.

• Gold, silver and platinum are precious metals.
  金、银、白金是贵金属。

用作表语: S+be+～

• My time is precious; I can only give you a few minutes.
  我的时间是宝贵的,我只能见你几分钟。

S+be+～+ prep .-phrase

• Your friendship is most precious to me.
  你的友谊对我来说是非常珍贵的。

S+be+～+to- v

• Grain is too precious to waste.
  粮食十分珍贵,不可浪费。

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词组短语

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

• precious aid 宝贵的援助
• precious book 珍贵的书
• precious experience 宝贵的经验
• precious find 珍贵的发现
• precious gift 珍贵的礼物

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• (VALUABLE) of great value because of being rare, expensive, or important
• (NOT NATURAL) behaving in a very formal and unnatural way by giving too much attention to details that are not important and trying too hard to be perfect
• (SHOWING DISLIKE) used to express dislike and/or anger
• very

柯林斯英英字典

• If you say that something such as a resource is precious, you mean that it is valuable and should not be wasted or used badly.
• Precious objects and materials are worth a lot of money because they are rare.
• If something is precious to you, you regard it as important and do not want to lose it.

• precious剑桥字典
• precious柯林斯字典

专业释义

哲学

• 贵

  By pushing forward the study on Confucius's social psychological ideas, the second part summarizes the characteristics of Confucius's social psychological ideas as five aspects:"Human is more important than God","Teacheveryone etiquette", "Preach Tao'", "Never blame God, never blame others" and "Peace is precious and always carry out middleof the road", and point out that Confucius's basis attitude to God-human relation is "Human is more important than God"; Confucius's basis principle to deal with people's relation, God-human relation and people-community relation is "Peace is precious and always carry out middle of the road"; the basic conception to individual-community relation is to emphasize the social impact and indoctrination on individual, which is "Teach everyone etiquette"; the important social responsibility of "Preach 'Tao'", and Confucius's broad and nice psychological characters of "Never blame God, never blame others".
  第二部分在对孔子的社会心理思想作进一步研究的基础之上，将孔子社会心理思想的特点概括为重人轻神、齐之以礼、弘道于世、不怨天、不尤人，以及贵和尚中五个方面，揭示出孔子对待天人关系的根本态度是“重人轻神”；处理人际关系、天人关系以及人与社会之间关系的根本原则是“贵和尚中”；对待个人与社会的关系的基本观点是既强调社会对个人的影响和教化，即“齐之以礼”，又倡导“弘道于世”的社会责任感；以及孔子“不怨天、不尤人”的博大胸襟和良好的心理品质。

  经济学

• 宝贵的

交通运输工程

• 贵重的
• 珍贵的