| 词汇 | nicety |
| 释义 | nicety noun uk /ˈnaɪ.sə.ti/ us /ˈnaɪ.sə.t̬i/ [ C ] a detail or small difference that is only obvious after careful thought: 细节；细微的差别 They spent a lot of time arguing about legal niceties.他们花费了大量时间争论法律上的细微区别。 We don't bother with all the social niceties here.我们略过这里的一切繁文缛节。 [ U ]formal the fact that something is based on very slight differences微妙；精确 Detailed and careful blow-by-blow detailed detailedly diligence diligent in depthphrase in the weedsidiom intimately intricate intricately over-fussy over-organize over-organized painstaking painstakingly thoroughgoing thoroughgoingly thoroughness white-glove wonkiness Examples of nicetynicety The answer to this may be that the president is in fact making a different pledge and using a code to maintain diplomatic niceties. Not given to e rhetorical niceties, he next turned his attention to the campaign for similar legislation at the national level. Perhaps our ears are not fully attuned to the niceties of eighteenth-century idiom. There are some legal niceties attendant upon this definition with which it is fortunately not necessary to deal in the present outline. While military procurements were important, diplomatic niceties such as recognition were relegated to a lesser sphere. There is little point in objecting to the ignorance of their ways or their failure to observe the niceties of a stricter terminology. The law itself, framed as it is in terms of strict liability, is not concerned with any niceties which might be provoked by extenuating circumstances. More than logical niceties are at stake here. Biographies, scholarly essays and even hagiographic works were devoted to a president who seemed to relish his reputation for a disregard of democratic niceties. Secondly, while consumers typically understand the broad issues about organic foods, many tend not to understand the complexities and niceties of organic farming practices and organic food quality attributes. The difficulties are not just philosophical niceties. Geologists often fall into the trap of being so familiar with the problems that we can at times find it difficult to see that others do not understand the niceties. What are the grammatical niceties? With respect to the philosophy of mind, there seems to be something of an enthusiast's disdain for the niceties of philosophical pettifogging, even arguing by assertion. The division suggested between cultural and professional identities is not another theoretical nicety. See all examples of nicety These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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