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词汇 enviable
释义 enviable
adjective
uk /ˈen.vi.ə.bəl/ us /ˈen.vi.ə.bəl/
If someone is in an enviable situation, you wish you were also in that situation: 令人羡慕的
enviable positionShe's in the enviable position of being able to choose who she works for.她能够自主选择为谁工作,真令人羡慕。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Envy and jealousy
all right
be green with envyidiom
covet
covetable
covetous
covetously
disgustingly
enviably
envious
enviously
enviousness
envyingly
green
greenly
grudge
jealous
jealously
possessive
possessively
threatened

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enviable | American Dictionary


enviable
adjective
us/ˈen·vi·ə·bəl/
(esp. of a quality or advantage) causing you to wish that you also possessed it; desirable:
She has an enviable ability to work under pressure.

Examples of enviable


enviable
A family or individual in possession of plentiful cowries thus occupied an enviable position in the local social hierarchy, to whom status and power accrued.
The editor is a skilful guide across difficult terrain, conducting her readers with enviable assurance through tangled clumps of textual thickets.
The thought here is that people have the capability to lead valuable or 'enviable' lives, if certain prerequisites are met.
Her mastery, enviable and evidently intimidating, is comfortingly confounded with complicity.
One enviable feature of connectionism is the number of researchers who have taken up applying it to different domains.
I may come to believe that you do not really deserve that enviable object.
His energy and enthusiasm were matched only by his enviable interpersonal and administrative skills.
The same physiological condition that accounted for the castrato's supposedly enviable position behind closed doors also made him the object of public ridicule.
As if we were not the more enviable for that!
Starting with an obviously pre-eminent erudition and an enviable range of knowledge, he has assembled great forces of evidence and argument.
These thoughts and many more that cannot be detailed in this short space are admirable and even enviable goals.
Plenty have not, perhaps through indifference or animosity, perhaps through enviable ignorance.
Yet a paradox of this blatantly exploitative social system was that thousands of serfs received an enviable education, with many becoming distinguished performers.
Weir continues to display an enviable gift for discovering new colours and timbres without losing her ability to communicate with rigour and compassion.
The former chief of staff, despite his late-in-the-day commitment to the rebellion, found himself in the enviable position of being the only recipient of all foreign aid.
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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