handsome
英 ['h?ns(?)m]
美 ['h?ns?m]
- adj. （男子）英俊的；可觀的；大方的，慷慨的；健美而端莊的
中文詞源
handsome 靈巧的，英俊的，瀟灑的，大方的來自hand的引申義，即手邊的，方便的，-some,形容詞后綴。后來引申靈巧的，體貼的，大方的，慷慨的等多種詞義，但主要用于形容男子瀟灑的，英俊的，實質上即暖男。
英文詞源
- handsome
- handsome: see hand
- handsome (adj.)
- c. 1400, handsom "easy to handle, ready at hand," from hand (n.) + -some (1). Sense extended to "fit, appropriate" (1550s, implied in handsomely), then "having fine form, good-looking, agreeable to the eye" (1580s). Meaning "generous, on a liberal scale" (of rewards, etc.) first recorded 1680s.
[Americans] use the word "handsome" much more extensively than we do: saying that Webster made a handsome speech in the Senate: that a lady talks handsomely, (eloquently:) that a book sells handsomely. A gentleman asked me on the Catskill Mountain, whether I thought the sun handsomer there than at New York. [Harriet Martineau, "Society in America," 1837]
Related: Handsomeness. For sense development, compare pretty (adj.). Similar formation in Dutch handzaam "tractable, serviceable."
雙語例句
- 1. The opposition won a handsome victory in the election.
- 反對黨在競選中以高票獲勝。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Tom was in some ways a younger clone of his handsome father.
- 湯姆某些地方長得和他那帥氣的父親一模一樣，只是年輕一些。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. He was a slim, solemn, darkly handsome young man.
- 他是個身材修長、表情莊重、皮膚黝黑的帥小伙。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. He was handsome in a raffish kind of way.
- 他的帥是一種放蕩不羈的帥。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. "He used to be so handsome." — "And now?"
- “他以前是那么英俊。”——“那么現在呢？”
來自柯林斯例句