beaut
英语
[编辑]词源
[编辑]beauty 的截斷形式。
发音
[编辑]名词
[编辑]beaut (複數 beauts)
- (非正式) 漂亮的人或事物
- That new car of yours is a real beaut.
- 你的那辆新车真是漂亮啊。
- (非正式) 厉害，杰出的人或事物
- 1942, Nelson Algren, Never Come Morning, 出版於 2001，第 282 頁:
- Bruno lifted his left hand out of the bucket in order to point out to Catfoot a lump, the size of a darning egg, over his left eye. […] "Ain't it a beaut, Cat? It's where he butted me."
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- 1994, Stephen Jay Gould, Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History，第 109 頁:
- In his most famous quip, La Guardia once remarked, “When I make a mistake it's a beaut!”
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- 2000, James Patterson, The Midnight Club，第 272 頁:
- Both of them were used to long surveillance stints. This looked like it might be a beaut.
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近义词
[编辑]- (漂亮的人)： 參見 Thesaurus:beautiful person
形容词
[编辑]beaut (比較級 beauter，最高級 beautest)
- (非正式，特別用於澳大利亞) 漂亮的，壮观的
- 1895, Elbridge Kingsley, Frederick Knab, Picturesque Worcester ...: Complete in Three Parts，第 40 頁:
- An' there was posies all round Jim, He had a bran new suit, The first un that he ever had, An' everything was beaut. An' when the preacher told 'bout Jim— How ' twas he got the swipe— I saw most all them dandy swells A feelin' fer a wipe.
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- 1968, James Phillip McAuley, Quadrant:
- It was beaut to have him home again, and gee, you should have seen the bike he bought me from Paris. From the same factory as his own was made.
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- 1978, Kevin Gilbert, Living Black: Blacks Talk to Kevin Gilbert:
- She was very motherly towards me then and it was beaut. Before I was eighteen, there just wasn't any kind words. All I wanted to do was get away from there.
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- 1996, Madeleine St. John, A Pure Clear Light, 4th Estate, Limited:
- Yes, it was beaut.
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延伸阅读
[编辑]- 2015, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Routledge, →ISBN，第 135 頁: