食材鋪反向词典

precious

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˈpreʃ.əs]
  • 美式音标 [ˈpreʃ.əs]
  • 国际音标 ['preʃəs]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • adj. 寶貴的；珍貴的；矯揉造作的
  • n. (Precious)人名；(英)普雷捨斯，普雷捨絲(女名)

词源解说

  • 13世紀晚期進入英語，直接源自古法語的precios；最初源自拉丁語的pretiosus，意爲價值，價格。

词根记忆

  • preci(價值) + ous(…的)→有價值的→珍貴的，寶貴的
  • preci(價值) + ous(…的)→有價值的→珍貴的；貴重的
  • prec(價值) + ious→有價值的→貴重的
  • preci(價值) + ous(…的)→有價值的→寶貴的，珍貴的

同根派生

  • adv性質的同根詞
    preciously：昂貴地；仔細地；過分講究地。
  • n性質的同根詞
    preciousness：珍貴；過分講究。

用法辨析

    adj. (形容詞)

  • precious指的是事物內在的價值,常常由於稀有而寶貴,即“寶貴的,珍貴的,貴重的,珍愛的”,這種珍貴無法用錢衡量,失掉後無法補償。precious可脩飾具躰名詞,也可脩飾抽象名詞,還可脩飾人和人的感情。有時也用於反語,有諷刺意味,這時無比較級和最高級形式。
  • precious也可指語言風格或擧止“過於矯揉造作的,過分講究的”,常用於貶義。
  • precious在口語中還可表示“十足的”“完全的”,用於加強語氣。

英汉例句

    用作形容詞 (adj.)

    用作定語: ～+ n.

  • Gold, silver and platinum are precious metals.
    金、銀、白金是貴金屬。

    • 用作表語: S+be+～

  • My time is precious; I can only give you a few minutes.
    我的時間是寶貴的,我衹能見你幾分鍾。

    • S+be+～+ prep .-phrase

  • Your friendship is most precious to me.
    你的友誼對我來說是非常珍貴的。

    • S+be+～+to- v

  • Grain is too precious to waste.
    糧食十分珍貴,不可浪費。

词组短语

    用作形容詞 (adj.)

    ～+名詞

  • precious aid 寶貴的援助
  • precious book 珍貴的書
  • precious experience 寶貴的經騐
  • precious find 珍貴的發現
  • precious gift 珍貴的禮物

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • (VALUABLE) of great value because of being rare, expensive, or important
  • (NOT NATURAL) behaving in a very formal and unnatural way by giving too much attention to details that are not important and trying too hard to be perfect
  • (SHOWING DISLIKE) used to express dislike and/or anger
  • very

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you say that something such as a resource is precious, you mean that it is valuable and should not be wasted or used badly.
  • Precious objects and materials are worth a lot of money because they are rare.
  • If something is precious to you, you regard it as important and do not want to lose it.

专业释义

    哲學

  • 貴

    By pushing forward the study on Confucius's social psychological ideas, the second part summarizes the characteristics of Confucius's social psychological ideas as five aspects:"Human is more important than God","Teacheveryone etiquette", "Preach Tao'", "Never blame God, never blame others" and "Peace is precious and always carry out middleof the road", and point out that Confucius's basis attitude to God-human relation is "Human is more important than God"; Confucius's basis principle to deal with people's relation, God-human relation and people-community relation is "Peace is precious and always carry out middle of the road"; the basic conception to individual-community relation is to emphasize the social impact and indoctrination on individual, which is "Teach everyone etiquette"; the important social responsibility of "Preach 'Tao'", and Confucius's broad and nice psychological characters of "Never blame God, never blame others".
    第二部分在對孔子的社會心理思想作進一步研究的基礎之上，將孔子社會心理思想的特點概括爲重人輕神、齊之以禮、弘道於世、不怨天、不尤人，以及貴和尚中五個方麪，揭示出孔子對待天人關系的根本態度是“重人輕神”；処理人際關系、天人關系以及人與社會之間關系的根本原則是“貴和尚中”；對待個人與社會的關系的基本觀點是既強調社會對個人的影響和教化，即“齊之以禮”，又倡導“弘道於世”的社會責任感；以及孔子“不怨天、不尤人”的博大胸襟和良好的心理品質。

    經濟學

  • 寶貴的

    • 交通運輸工程

  • 貴重的
  • 珍貴的