| 词汇 | pretty |
| 释义 | pretty adverb informaluk /ˈprɪt.i/ us /ˈprɪt̬.i/ B1 quite, but not extremely: 相当，颇，很，非常 The house has four bedrooms, so it's pretty big.这座房子有4个卧室，因此非常大。 I'm pretty sure it was her.我相当肯定是她。 I've got a pretty good idea of how to get there.我很清楚该怎么去那里。 pretty much/well B1 almost: 接近，几乎 I've pretty much finished here.我这儿基本上完成了。 I guess that things are pretty hard for you now.我想你现在的日子很不好过吧。 It's pretty noisy at night-time.夜间很吵。 It's pretty unlikely that they'll turn up now - it's nearly ten o'clock.他们现在不大可能来了——都快10点了。 The place emptied pretty quickly when the fight started.战斗爆发后，这个地方很快就没人了。 Nothing really changes around here. One day is pretty much like the next.这里并没有什么实质性的变化，天天差不多都是一个样儿。 Some and quite a piece/slice/share of the pieidiom bit certain faintly fairly ha'porth halfway lightly little mildly pie quite rather remotely several some to a/some degreeidiom touch trifle vaguely GrammarPretty We can use pretty as an adverb, before an adjective or another adverb, meaning ‘quite, but not extremely’. It is informal: … pretty adjective uk /ˈprɪt.i/ us /ˈprɪt̬.i/ A2 pleasant to look at, or (especially of girls or women or things relating to them) attractive or pleasant in a delicate way: （尤指女孩、女子或与其相关事物）漂亮的，美丽的，标致的 That's a pretty hat you're wearing.你戴的帽子很漂亮。 The sofa was covered in very pretty flowery material.沙发面料是一种很漂亮的花朵图案的布料。 She's got such a pretty daughter.她有一个如此美貌的女儿。 a beautiful person, painting, sight, etc. beautifulI've never seen a more beautiful view in my life. attractiveHer husband is really attractive. good-lookingI think they're very good-looking. handsomeHe's so handsome. prettyYour daughter is very pretty. gorgeousYou look gorgeous in that dress! She looked pretty in a simple cotton dress.她穿着朴素的棉布连衣裙，看上去很漂亮。 Our hotel room overlooked a pretty little fishing harbour.我们从宾馆的房间可以俯瞰一个美丽的小渔港。 pretty pink flowers美丽的粉色花朵 I tied the ribbon around the parcel in a pretty bow. She was young and pretty, with a spotless reputation.她年轻漂亮，声誉清白。 Attractive adorable adorably adorbs aesthetic aesthetically delicate disarming disarmingly distinguished dreamy lovable lovably loveliness lovely lusciously stunning stunningly suave suavely suit Related wordprettiness Idiomscost someone a pretty penny not be a pretty sight not be just a pretty face a pretty pass pretty please pretty | American Dictionarypretty adjective[ -er/-est only ] us/ˈprɪt̬·i/ prettyadjective[-er/-est only] (PLEASANT)pleasant to look at, or (esp. of girls or women or things connected with them) attractive or charming in a delicate way: a pretty view My older sister is prettier than I am. Idiompretty much pretty adverb[ not gradable ] us/ˈprɪt̬·i/ prettyadverb[not gradable] (TO A LARGE DEGREE)(used to give emphasis) to a large degree; to some degree: I’ve got a pretty clear idea of what’s going on. She was pretty tired. "How are you feeling?" "Pretty good, thanks." Examples of prettypretty That suggested to us that they really were doing pretty much what the record said they were doing. The males gravitate (albeit unconsciously) towards another form in the available inventory that has no obvious social connotations - pretty fits the bill. A fancy procedure and pretty pictures are not needed, critics will add, to know that brain activity differs between the two groups. If circularities of that sort are conceded, pretty much anything can be legitimated with anything. Although both chapters on financial regulation are interesting, the conclusions are pretty standard : there is a call for a prudential regulation of banks. Nevertheless, it is to be hoped that his book will form pretty much the last word on this particular controversy. However, the "pretty horsebreakers" appearing in increasing numbers in parks and public spaces caused a surge of anxiety. Each chapter can pretty much stand on its own and would be easily extracted for topical reading in a graduate seminar. The materials overall are pretty demanding and aim at a high level of understanding. The state, it may be thought, is pretty much just us, and its decisions represent us and our decisions. It is largely the result of retrospective legislation in the 20th century, but that is pretty much like all other sets of classics. Their bibliographies are pretty good entries into the unfathomably rich literature about the subject. To empathize with what is happening on the stage one has to be pretty simple-hearted. Now ignorance of the true nature of happiness is pretty clearly a defect in the agent. A simple programming language implementation (interpreter, parser and pretty-printer) is developed and presented in a highly modular style. See all examples of pretty 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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