delicacy / ˈdɛl ɪ kə si /

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delicacy 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural del·i·ca·cies.

  1. fineness of texture, quality, etc.; softness; daintiness: the delicacy of lace.
  2. something delightful or pleasing, especially a choice food considered with regard to its rarity, costliness, or the like: Caviar is a great delicacy.
  3. the quality of being easily broken or damaged; fragility.
  4. the quality of requiring or involving great care or tact: negotiations of great delicacy.
  5. extreme sensitivity; precision of action or operation; minute accuracy: the delicacy of a skillful surgeon's touch; a watch mechanism of unusual delicacy.
  6. fineness of perception or feeling; sensitiveness: the delicacy of the pianist's playing.
  7. fineness of feeling with regard to what is fitting, proper, etc.: Delicacy would not permit her to be rude.
  8. sensitivity with regard to the feelings of others: She criticized him with such delicacy that he was not offended.
  9. bodily weakness; liability to sickness; frailty.
  10. Linguistics. the degree of minuteness pursued at a given stage of analysis in specifying distinctions in linguistic description.
  11. Obsolete. sensuous indulgence; luxury.

delicacy 近义词

n. 名词 noun

daintiness, fineness of structure

n. 名词 noun

delicious, gourmet food

更多delicacy例句

  1. Not content to just mass-produce lab-grown fish fillets, it has focused on developing prized delicacies, especially fish maw.
  2. Enjoy the local delicacy with this summery cocktail that uses TINCUP’s bourbon, which is aged for 10 years.
  3. It was a delicacy from the gods in order to not go to sleep hungry, which is one of the worst sensations in life.
  4. She next took on four papers that had been rapidly published early in 2020, two of them in Nature, describing viruses in pangolins—endangered scale-covered mammals sometimes eaten as delicacies in China—that shared similarities to SARS-CoV-2.
  5. The latter work’s delicacy, typical of Yamaguchi’s style, is infused here with new urgency.
  6. At the time, the island had not yet been named after the delicacy, and went by the decidedly less fantastical Twickenham Ait.
  7. C, lastly, I just think [Perritaz] has a natural taste for purity, delicacy, and ethereal balance.
  8. His hilarious parody-fable, “A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig,” traces the supposed genesis of that culinary delicacy.
  9. In their scenes, there is delicacy, there is love, and there is hope.
  10. St. Peter Damian damned her for “excessive delicacy” in preferring such a rarefied implement to her God-given hands.
  11. Flowers, fruits, and insects were her favorite subjects, and were painted with rare delicacy.
  12. I think that he had more virtuosity, and yet more delicacy of feeling, than either Rubinstein or Blow.
  13. The officer, with less delicacy of attention to the supposed slumbers of an invalid, followed him.
  14. Many of these pipes are sculptured from the most obdurate stones and display great delicacy of workmanship.
  15. He evidently avoided taking a share in the discussion of his Transatlantic career, probably from delicacy to his English auditor.