dapper: [15] Modern English dapper connotes neatness, alertness, and liveliness, but its etymological significance as revealed by distant relatives such as Old High German tapfar ‘heavy’, Old Prussian debīkan ‘large’, and Old Slavic debelu ‘thick’, is ‘heavy’. The notion of ‘weightiness’ spread to ‘firmness, endurance in battle’, and hence ‘courage’ (German tapfer and Dutch dapper both mean ‘brave’). English acquired the word, with an apparently ironical change of meaning, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German dapper ‘heavy, stout, bold’.
dapper (adj.)
mid-15c., "elegant," from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German dapper "bold, strong, sturdy," later "quick, nimble," from Proto-Germanic *dapraz, perhaps with ironical shift of meaning (cognates: Old High German tapfar "heavy," German tapfer "brave"), from PIE root *dheb- "dense, firm, compressed."
dapper 英文释义
1. marked by smartness in dress and manners;
"a dapper young man"
"a jaunty red hat"
dapper 双语例句
1. He is a dapper little salesman in a business suit.
他是一个穿西装的矮小精悍的推销员.
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2. He was a dapper little Irishman, very vain, homely as a monkey.
他是个短小精干的爱尔兰人, 非常自负, 丑得象只猴子.
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3. His manner was aristocratic , his movements dapper and suave.
他气宇轩昂, 温文尔雅,举止潇洒.
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4. The once dapper , cheerful agent had become seedy looking and bitter.
昔日风度翩翩、容光焕发的经纪人,今天变成了衣衫褛褴, 蓬头垢面的人.
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5. His dapper self - confidence seemed impenetrable to such hints.
这类的暗示似乎动摇不了他坚定的 自信.
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dapper 实用场景例句
He was a dapper little Irishman, very vain, homely as a monkey.
他是个短小精干的爱尔兰人, 非常自负, 丑得象只猴子.
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His manner was aristocratic , his movements dapper and suave.
他气宇轩昂, 温文尔雅,举止潇洒.
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The once dapper , cheerful agent had become seedy looking and bitter.
昔日风度翩翩、容光焕发的经纪人,今天变成了衣衫褛褴, 蓬头垢面的人.
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His dapper self - confidence seemed impenetrable to such hints.
这类的暗示似乎动摇不了他坚定的 自信.
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Humphrey was outwardly dapper and composed as usual.
汉弗莱同往常一样衣着整齐,镇定自若.
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In person Dr. Proudie is a good - looking man, spruce and dapper and very tidy.
就仪表而言,普劳迪博士是一位仪表堂堂的人,潇洒, 漂亮,十分整饬.
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He was a young history don , a short , plump man, dapper in dress.
他是一位年轻的历史学教师, 矮小圆胖, 穿着干净利落.
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By week's end Dave came by looking dapper in a dark suit.
到了周末时,戴夫来看望我.
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Other dapper statue, face different attitude, well that life.
其他塑像衣冠楚楚, 面姿各异, 惟妙惟肖,栩栩如生.
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By week's end Dave came by dapper in a dark suit.
到了周末时,戴夫来看望我.他穿着一套深色的西装,显得十分潇洒.
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Mr Ohtsubo, 64, is dapper and intense in conversation.
64岁的大坪文雄衣冠楚楚, 与人交谈时认真投入.
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You will look very dapper in a silk leisure suit.
真丝休闲西服,令您风姿翩翩.
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He will have an inferiority if you are happy and dapper.
他看到你现在这么潇洒快乐,一定很自卑.
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Your most dapper and distinguished - looking gentleman is George Clooney ( 40 % ).
