c. 1300, "filled with God's grace," from Old French gracios "courteous, pleasing, kind, friendly" (12c., Modern French gracieux), from Latin gratiosus "enjoying favor, agreeable, obliging; popular, acceptable," from gratia (see grace (n.)). Meaning "merciful, benevolent" is from late 14c. As an exclamation, elliptically for gracious God, attested from 1713.
雙語例句
1. Good gracious, look at that specimen will you?
哎呀，你快來瞧瞧那個標本！
來自柯林斯例句
2. He has not yet learned how to be gracious in defeat.
他還沒有學會怎樣豁達大度地面對失敗。
來自《權威詞典》
3. All this gracious living isn't for me; I prefer the simple life.
這優裕的生活不適合我, 我寧愿過簡樸的生活.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. She was , to the end, a gentlewoman of the old school , gracious and mannerly.
說到底, 她仍是一位溫文爾雅 、 禮貌可嘉的守舊派的貴婦人.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. She was gracious enough to show us round her home.