pleasantries

英语

名词

pleasantries

1. pleasantry 的复数

名词

pleasantries 复 (仅复数)

1. （正式谈话之前的）寒暄，客套，打招呼

   exchanging pleasantries ― 相互寒暄

2. 委婉
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], 章号 XI, 出自 Romance and Reality. […], 卷 III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC，页号 221:

     Signora Caterina thought it could. Weak, yet cunning—vain, yet conscious of having outlived her attractions—with one of those tempers which we conceive to be the true interpretation of the old fairy tale, where out of the mouth of the party proceeded snakes, toads, locusts, and other pleasantries.

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参见

• formalities

异序词

• anistreplase, paternalises