| 词汇 | tact |
| 释义 | tact noun[ U ] uk /tækt/ us /tækt/ C2 the ability to say or do the right thing without making anyone unhappy or angry: （处事、言谈等的）得体，乖巧，机敏;外交手腕 He's never had much tact and people don't like his blunt manner.他从来不懂什么处事技巧，大家都不喜欢他那生硬的态度。 Kind & thoughtful accommodating accommodatingly attentive attentively attentiveness cooperatively diplomacy diplomatic diplomatically eunoia motherly neighbourliness neighbourly nice nicely thoughtfulness unmalicious unmaliciously unspoiled warm-hearted tact | American Dictionarytact noun[ U ] us/tækt/ the ability to say or do things in such a way that you do not make anyone unhappy or angry: The editors of this book have shown tact and good sense in their selections. tactfuladjectiveus/ˈtækt·fəl/ You were very tactful about the awful meal my mother fixed. tactfullyadverbus/ˈtækt·fə·li/ I tried to say as tactfully as I could that she was totally wrong. Examples of tacttact Often it has been simply a gesture of tact towards the feelings, however bigoted, of others, whether friends, family or colleagues. With exquisite tact and selfdenial, he has never allowed his passions for cricket and interesting motorcars to impinge on our conversation. Tact that informs the sense of touch, attracts, and comes to rest on the threshold of the approach. A consequentialist who possesses a genuinely friendly character would abandon her friends with gentle tact and a loving, sorrowful explanation. For the women who were involved, these sorts of visits required tact. This alludes to their mastery of craft and tact. Symons translates foreign culture without tact or regard for history, the better to free the dance and the body from the mundane order of signification. This is an important matter of architectural tact. I have acted, in this matter, with tact and prudence. Bureaucracy has at last made its thunderous entrance into a world it should have had the tact to keep away from. Nonetheless, it is possible to overcome this initial resistance, with tact and patience. Tact and friendliness can get us anything but official notes nothing. The empowerment of women through verbal tact and supernatural strength only increased female audience appeal. Conservative surgery was possible in 97% with mobilization of the anterior leaflet, longitudinal plication of the right inflow tact, reduction of the tricuspid annulus using prosthetic ring in older patients. Quietly, firmly and without fuss or bother, she radiated an aura of compromise, of tact and of understanding which were perhaps the most central characteristics of her personality. 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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