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deftly

/deft-lee/US // ˈdɛft li //

巧妙地,娴熟地,灵巧地,巧妙的

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adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a dexterous or nimble manner; skillfully: The nightjar, a nocturnal bird, is an aerial hunter capable of deftly snatching moths from the air in mid flight.With clear, concise prose, the author navigates deftly through a complex narrative of diplomacy, war, and politics.

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  • Van Den Berg deftly details the heat and nature as well as the people.

  • Holladay, a biographer, novelist, poet and scholar of modern and contemporary American literature, deftly pulls off this daunting hat trick.

  • As a film, Mangrove deftly weaves such acts together so that they are, as they always are, inextricable.

  • Some are short essays, but many are streams of fragments — often barely a word or two, all of them deftly arranged and fluttering about.

  • The novella’s 1961 film adaptation, The Innocents, deftly brings James’s version of the story to life.

  • Nothing does it quite like deftly decapitating a bottle of bubbly with a gleaming blade.

  • Soviet forces had deftly enveloped the German 4th and 9th Armies, annihilating some 28 divisions.

  • In her new memoir, Lena Dunham deftly articulates many of the concerns facing women her age.

  • Yes, Burns and Ward have produced an Intimate History that deftly weaves together the personal and the political.

  • Colbert has deftly hosted benefits and other shows and given hilarious and poignant commencement speeches.

  • The only thing that kept him awake was Sarah's shapely fingers moving deftly among the pages of the sacred book.

  • The dwarfs leaped into the air and in a bound seized and cut the branches, out of which they deftly wove a basket chair.

  • The white-haired man deftly removed Talpers's revolver from its holster and put it on the table.

  • Bent low over the machine, he seems absorbed in the work, his hands deftly manipulating the shuttle, his foot on the treadle.

  • "Those Others could not breathe under the water, as you cannot," he explained as he worked deftly and swiftly.