beaut
英语[编辑]
词源[编辑]
beauty 的截断形式。
发音[编辑]
名词[编辑]
beaut (复数 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, 出版于 2001,页号 282:
- 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,页号 109:
- 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,页号 272:
- 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): 参见 [[Thesaurus:beautiful person#Lua错误 在Module:Language-like的第146行:attempt to call local 'extra_processing' (a table value)|Thesaurus:beautiful person]]
形容词[编辑]
beaut (比较级 beauter, 最高级 beautest)
- (非正式, especially, 澳大利亚) 漂亮的,壮观的
- 1895, Elbridge Kingsley, Frederick Knab, Picturesque Worcester ...: Complete in Three Parts,页号 40:
- 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,页号 135: