1 ADJ-GRADED 美丽的；漂亮的 A beautiful person is very attractive to look at. 美丽的；漂亮的
2 ADJ-GRADED 美好的；极好的；美妙的 If you describe something as beautiful, you mean that it is very attractive or pleasing. 美好的；极好的；美妙的
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New England is beautiful.
新英格兰很美。
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It was a beautiful morning.
那是一个美妙的早晨。
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He has beautiful manners.
他举止优雅。
SYN bright, clear, fine, summery
3 ADJ-GRADED 巧妙的；娴熟的；漂亮的 You can describe something that someone does as beautiful when they do it very skilfully. 巧妙的；娴熟的；漂亮的
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That's a beautiful shot!
射得漂亮！
SYN wonderful, great [informal] , excellent, superb
Usage Note :
When you are describing someone's appearance, you usually use beautiful and pretty to describe women, girls, and babies. Beautiful is a much stronger word than pretty. The equivalent word for a man is handsome. Good-looking and attractive can be used to describe people of either sex.
在描述人的外貌时，通常用 beautiful 和 pretty 来形容女人、女孩和婴儿。beautiful 语气比 pretty 强烈得多。形容男性的对应词是 handsome。good-looking 和 attractive 既可以形容女性，也可以形容男性。
Quotations
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful William Morris Hopes and Fears for Art
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance John Ruskin Stones of Venice
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful John Constable
Things are beautiful if you love them Jean Anouilh Mademoiselle Colombe
| Thesaurus | beautiful Also look up: |
| ADJ. | gorgeous, lovely, pretty, ravishing, stunning; (ant.) grotesque, hideous, homely, ugly 1 |
| Word Link | ful ≈ filled with : beautiful, careful, dreadful |
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