suavity

英語

詞源

繼承自中古英語 suavyte、suavite、suavitee，源自中古法語 suavité、拉丁語 suāvitas。

名詞

suavity (可數和不可數，複數 suavities)

1. 溫和，柔和

   suavity of manners

   举止温文尔雅

   suavity of language, conversation, or address

   语言、谈话或讲话的柔和

   • 1881，Robert Louis Stevenson，Virginibus Puerisque：

     [...] nothing, not even the crude curves of the railway, can utterly deform the suavity of contour of one bay after another along the whole reach of the Riviera.

     […] 没有什么，即使是铁路的粗糙曲线，也不能彻底改变整个里维埃拉地区一个又一个海湾的柔和轮廓。

2. (棄用) 香甜，甜蜜，甜美（尤指氣味、味道）
   • 1513, Henry Bradshaw, edited by Edward Hawkins, The Holy Lyfe and History of Saynt Werburge: Very Frutefull for All Christen People to Rede (Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester Published by The Chetham Society; volume XV), […] The Chetham Society, published 1848:

     Whan this ſayd monument diſcouered was / Suche a ſuauite and fragrant odoure / Aſcended from the corps by ſingular grace / Paſſyng all worldly ſwetnes and ſauour / That all there present that day and hour / Suppoſed they had ben / in the felicite / Of erthely paradiſe / without ambiguite.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

參見

• suaveness
• blandness