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exquisitely

/ik-skwiz-it-lee, ek-skwi-zit-lee/US // ɪkˈskwɪz ɪt li, ˈɛk skwɪ zɪt li //

精致的,精美的,精致,玲珑剔透

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adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : excellently, especially in a way that shows extreme refinement or elegance:The scenic design is gorgeous, and the show is exquisitely lit.Under the tree stands a group of exquisitely sculpted Buddhas.
    • : to a degree that is exceptional or extraordinary:String theory suggests that the universe is created by the vibrations of exquisitely tiny superstrings in ten spatial dimensions.
    • : to an extreme degree; intensely: Until that point, I had not heard the details of my students’ exquisitely personal stories of the experience of war.The ocean swim was truly invigorating, and I felt exquisitely alive.
    • : showing keen sensitivity:The blood-brain barrier is a network that exquisitely controls the movement of cells and molecules between the blood and the fluid that surrounds the brain.

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Examples

  • His 2018 debut, “If I Know Me,” had two exquisite hit singles, the lonesome “Whiskey Glasses” and the lonesomer “Chasin’ You.”

  • His book One Long River of Song is the most exquisite essay collection I’ve ever read.

  • By combining their signals using a powerful technique known as Very Long Baseline Interferometry, we can pinpoint the position of a signal with exquisite accuracy, such as to a single star.

  • DeVonta Smith, the out-of-this-world wide receiver who was named Associated Press national player of the year, roamed the field to complete tasks of exquisite difficulty — or sometimes just roamed the field with a football.

  • A month later, in February 1974, a small, exquisite painting by Vermeer called “The Guitar Player” was stolen from Kenwood House, a museum in Hampstead, England.

  • He was highly perceptive and exquisitely sensitive to everything around him.

  • The former is an exquisitely calibrated product of American liberalism, ever attentive to such notions as “inclusiveness.”

  • Any ad invoking that tragedy would have to be exquisitely sensitive and carefully crafted.

  • I had watched her shoot up into a slender but exquisitely formed woman from a frail, awkward child.

  • Her tender face bent in compassion over a marble form so exquisitely pure that I knelt and signed myself.

  • So exquisitely were the two woven together that you could hardly tell where the one left off and the other began.

  • But she was an exquisitely pretty and engaging little thing, a grand little pal, and worth cultivating.

  • And I thank God, who gave me the temper to feel grief exquisitely, that he at the same time gave me an equal capacity for joy.

  • These poems, of a savour so exquisitely strange, cost him no more than any badly rhymed commonplace.

  • For above the beat of the rain and the shrill whine of the wind came a strain of music, mournful, yet exquisitely beautiful.