| 单词 | beauty |
| 释义 | beauty bjuːti ˈbjuti Word forms: plural beauties
SYN attractiveness, appeal, charm, grace
SYN good-looker, looker [informal , mainly US] , lovely [slang] , sensation
SYN advantage, good, use, benefit Quotations A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness Endymion If you get simple beauty and nought else, You get about the best thing God invents Fra Lippo Lippi `Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know Ode on a Grecian Urn The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is A Bolter and the Invincible Summer It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness The Kreutzer Sonata Beauty vanishes; beauty passes Epitaph Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us Present Past - Past Present Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms The Conduct of Life Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man The Brothers Karamazov All changed, changed utterly; A terrible beauty is born Easter 1916 Beauty is feared, more than death Paterson Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature Sexual Personae Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary Ask a toad what is beauty ...; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back Philosophical Dictionary I always say beauty is only sin deep Reginald Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness On Love beauty: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband The Devil's Dictionary Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? Man and Superman Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it Cakes and Ale When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say `You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair' Uncle Vanya Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favourite work of art My Funny Valentine Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Doctor Faustus Beauty and Truth, though never found, are worthy to be sought To David in Heaven 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 Trends of beauty View usage for:All yearsLast 10 yearsLast 50 yearsLast 100 yearsLast 300 years |
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