英汉词典

pretty 基本解释

• adj. 漂亮的；可爱的；优美的
• adv. 相当地；颇
• n. 漂亮的人
• n. (Pretty)人名；(英)普雷蒂

pretty 词态变化

pretty 中文词源

来自古英语praettig,狡猾的，精明的，有技巧的，来自Proto-Germanic*prattuz,夸夸其谈，吹牛，拟声词，词源同prate,prattle.后词义褒义化，引申词义相当好的，美丽的，漂亮的，后用于副词颇，相当。词义演变比较prestige.

pretty 英文词源

pretty

pretty: [OE] In Old English pretty (or prættig, as it was then) meant ‘clever’ in a bad sense – ‘crafty, cunning’. Not until the 15th century had it passed via ‘clever’, ‘skilfully made’, and ‘fine’ to ‘beautiful’. It was a derivative of prætt ‘trick, wile’, which came from a prehistoric West Germanic *pratt- (source also of Dutch part ‘trick’).

pretty (adj.)

Old English prættig (West Saxon), pretti (Kentish), *prettig (Mercian) "cunning, skillful, artful, wily, astute," from prætt, *prett "a trick, wile, craft," from Proto-Germanic *pratt- (cognates: Old Norse prettr "a trick," prettugr "tricky;" Frisian pret, Middle Dutch perte, Dutch pret "trick, joke," Dutch prettig "sportive, funny," Flemish pertig "brisk, clever"), of unknown origin.

Connection between Old English and Middle English words is uncertain, but if they are the same, meaning had shifted by c. 1400 to "manly, gallant," and later moved via "attractive, skillfully made," to "fine," to "beautiful in a slight way" (mid-15c.). Ironical use from 1530s. For sense evolution, compare nice, silly. Also used of bees (c. 1400). "After the OE. period the word is unknown till the 15th c., when it becomes all at once frequent in various senses, none identical with the OE., though derivable from it" [OED].

Meaning "not a few, considerable" is from late 15c. With a sense of "moderately," qualifying adjectives and adverbs, since 1560s. Pretty please as an emphatic plea is attested from 1902. A pretty penny "lot of money" is first recorded 1768.

pretty (n.)

"a pretty person or thing," 1736, from pretty (adj.).

pretty (v.)

1916, usually with up, from pretty (adj.). Related: Prettied; prettying. Compare prettify.

pretty 词组搭配

pretty 英文释义

1. pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing;

"pretty girl"

"pretty song"

"pretty room"

2. (used ironically) unexpectedly bad;

"a pretty mess"

"a pretty kettle of fish"

pretty 同义词解析

beautiful, fair, handsome, lovely, pretty, fine

这些形容词均含"美丽的，漂亮的"之意。

beautiful： 普通用词，含义广泛，语气最强，指优美和谐，是一种几乎接近完美的美。指人时通常形容女人或小孩，很少用于描写男子。

fair： 正式用词，多用于文学中，形容女子和儿童，侧重外表的美。

handsome： 多用于描写男性的英俊潇洒。有时也形容女人，指其五官端正，体态秀丽。

lovely： 普通用词，描写人时，主要指女人和小孩的相貌，语气不如beautiful强。

pretty： 普通用词，语气比beautiful弱，多用于描写妇女、儿童以及小巧玲珑，精美可爱之物。

fine： 指在容貌、身材或风度等方面令人感到可爱。用于事物时，强调形式或内容的优美。

fairly, pretty, quite, rather

这些程度副词都有"相当，颇"之意。

fairly： 语意最弱，多用于褒义，表示适度地、尚可的意思。不可与too或比较级连用。

pretty： 用法与rather相似。常用于非正式文体。

quite含义比fairly稍强，与不定冠词连用时，一般放在不定冠词之前。

rather语气比quite强，褒意贬意无可使用。可与too和比较级连用。

pretty 双语例句

1. The comparative of "pretty" is "prettier".

pretty的比较级形式是prettier。

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2. She's going to be fine. She always was pretty strong.

她会好的。她一直都很强壮。

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3. She was a shy, delicately pretty girl with enormous blue eyes.

她是一个害羞、娇美的女孩，长着一双大大的蓝眼睛。

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4. His new government looks pretty much like the old one.

他的新政府看起来和旧政府没什么两样。

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5. The policeman smiled at her. "Pretty dog."— "Oh well, thank you."

警察冲她笑了笑，“这狗真漂亮。”——“哦，谢谢。”

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pretty 实用场景例句

I'm pretty sure I'll be going.

我相当肯定会去的。

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The game was pretty good.

这个游戏相当不错。

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It's pretty hard to explain.

这事很难解释清楚。

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I'm going to have to find a new apartment pretty soon.

我很快就得找个新住处了。

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That performance was pretty impressive.

那场表演很出色。

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Things are looking pretty good!

形势看来很不错！

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One dog looks pretty much like another to me.

在我看来，狗长得都差不多。

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a pretty face

俏丽的脸

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a pretty little girl

俊俏的小姑娘

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You look so pretty in that dress!

你穿那件连衣裙真漂亮！

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pretty clothes

漂亮的衣服

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a pretty garden

赏心悦目的花园

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a pretty name

优美的名字

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(especially British English)She laughed prettily.

她的笑声很迷人。

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The rooms are simply but prettily furnished.

房间都布置得简朴而美观。

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[不可数名词]the prettiness of youth

青春的美好

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‘I didn't know you could play the piano. ’ ‘I'm not just a pretty face, you know! ’

“我不知道你还会弹钢琴呢。”“我可不只是脸蛋儿漂亮，对吧！”

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You should have seen him in his swimming trunks─not a pretty sight!

你应该见识见识他穿游泳裤的样子——真是一景呢！

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She's a very charming and very pretty girl.

她是一个非常迷人的漂亮女孩。

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Whitstable is still a very pretty little town.

惠特斯特布尔仍然是一个非常漂亮的小镇。

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...comfortable sofas covered in a pretty floral print.

罩着漂亮的印花布的舒适沙发

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I had a pretty good idea what she was going to do...

我很清楚她会怎么做。

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Pretty soon after my arrival I found lodgings.

我到达之后，很快就找到了住处。

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His new government looks pretty much like the old one...

他的新政府看起来和旧政府没什么两样。

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I travel pretty well every week.

我几乎每周都出去旅行。

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When the war started, they thought they were sitting pretty, because they had all that extra grain.

战争开始的时候，他们认为自己境况不错，因为他们粮食准备充足。

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