precious 的 3 个定义
- of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- highly esteemed for some spiritual, nonmaterial, or moral quality: precious memories.
- dear; beloved: a precious child.
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- a dearly beloved person; darling.
- extremely; very: She wastes precious little time.
precious 近义词
favorite, valued
expensive; rare
extremely sophisticated and picky
更多precious例句
- “We need to be able to direct our attention to which patients are most likely to benefit from, in this case, frankly, a relatively precious resource of high titre convalescent plasma,” Musser says.
- Though the city’s planning department recently studied how sea level rise will affect its most precious assets, the threat hasn’t featured prominently in public discussion of the redevelopment plan.
- Claiming that much of its business is an Israeli state secret, it has offered precious little public detail about its operations, customers, or safeguards.
- Research-grade telescopes are a rare and precious commodity, and letting one sit idle for even a handful of nights is a drastic measure.
- Lust motivates us to pursue a range of sexual partners—to explore and experiment with possible “mates”—while attraction encourages us to get selective, to conserve precious time and energy by coupling with someone specific.
- Being there teaches you to think quickly, edit yourself, and not get too precious about your own work.
- From a lyrical standpoint, there are precious few that can catch Kendrick.
- Before preservationists could put a stop to it, he and other looters had raided and destroyed precious relics buried at the site.
- Second, they threaten one of the most precious resources in our state: public education that is open to all children.
- The precious cargo: two American humanitarian workers with Ebola.
- But Mrs. Dodd, the present vicar's wife, retained the precious prerogative of choosing the book to be read at the monthly Dorcas.
- Take care of a good name: for this shall continue with thee, more than a thousand treasures precious and great.
- I am not fool enough to put my precious Naps in jeopardy, just when I am so deucedly in want of them, too.
- What is, then, this precious drink I read of in my Shakespeare—so precious, that your lordship will not trust him to his butler?
- Her smile was strangely distant, strangely precious: she was love and tenderness incarnate; her little hands held both of his.