nimble

英语

词源

源自中古英語 nymyl、nemel、nemyll、nymell (“敏捷的，迅捷的；准备就绪的；有能的”)，古英語 nǣmel (“善于学习的”)和古英語 numol (“能够拿稳的”)的合并形式，两者均源自niman (“拿，取”) + -el、-ol (联想后缀)，等价于nim +‎ -le。对比德語 nehmen、哥特語 𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (niman)、古諾爾斯語 nema (“拿”)。详见nim。

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈnɪmbl̩/
• 韻部：-ɪmbəl

• （英国）音频：

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形容词

nimble (比較級 nimbler，最高級 nimblest)

1. 擅长抓取的

   nimble fingers

   抓东西灵活的指头

2. 迅捷的，敏捷的

   He was too nimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp.

   袭击者不敌他灵活的动作，他轻松挣脱了袭击者的手。

   • 1988, The Economist (volume 306, issues 7532-7539, page 13)

     Attempts to introduce versions of "market communism" — in China, Hungary or Yugoslavia — have shown how hard it is to make mainly state-owned economies as nimble as mainly private ones.

3. 机敏谨慎的

   She has a nimble mind and can improvise in any situation.

   她非常机敏，在任何场合都能随机应变。

   • 2020年5月20日，“Merriman praised over handling of TSC's 'virtual' transition”, in Rail，頁 12:

     "It requires you to be flexible and nimble in your thinking and Huw has already demonstrated that," said Greenwood, [...]

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反义词

• (敏捷)： sluggish

衍生词汇

• nimbly

动词

nimble (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 nimbles，現在分詞 nimbling，一般過去時及過去分詞 nimbled)

1. (不及物) 敏捷地移动
   • 2012，Caspar Henderson，The Book of Barely Imagined Beings，頁 72:

     Their teeth are regularly and assiduously cleaned by shrimp that nimble in and out of the moray's mouth like ballet dancers in the jaws of a mechanical stage dragon.

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异序词

• milneb