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| /greɪs/ |
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| 1 | U a smooth and beautiful way of moving 优雅;优美 |
| She moved with natural grace. 她的举止优雅自然。 |
| | 1a | a simple and beautiful quality 简单优美 | | the grace of Manueline architecture 曼努埃尔式建筑的简单优美 | |
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| 2 | U kind , polite , and fair behaviour 善意；礼貌；体谅 |
| She captures the character’ s essential gentleness and grace. 她抓住了角色温柔善良的本质。 |
| have the (good) grace to do sth He should have the grace to admit he was wrong. 他应当有承认错误的雅量。 |
| with (good/a good) grace (=in a pleasant and willing way) Davis accepted the defeat with good grace. 有风度地；情愿地 |
| with bad/a bad/an ill grace (=in an unpleasant and unwilling way) She responded with an ill grace to our appeal for help. 有失风度地；不情愿地 |
| | 2a | plural skills that are necessary for polite or friendly relationships with other people 社交风度 | |
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| 3 | singular/U a short prayer that some people say before they eat to thank God for the food 餐前感恩祷告 |
| Eric, would you like to say grace? 埃里克，做餐前祷告好吗？ |
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| 4 | U the love and kindness that God gives to people 上帝的恩惠 |
| by/through God’ s grace It was only by God’ s grace that we were saved. 承蒙上帝的恩惠，我们才会得救。 |
| | 4a | the condition of people when they are loved and forgiven by God 天恩眷顾；上帝的宽恕 | | state of grace He died in a state of grace. 他死时已得到上帝的宽恕。 | |
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| 5 | U extra time that you have or that someone allows you to have in order to do something such as pay money you owe 宽限期 |
| Could you give me a couple of days’ grace to pay the rent? 你能再给我几天付租金的宽限时间吗？ |
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| 6 | C a grace note |
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| - | be in sb’ s good/bad graces
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| to be in a situation in which someone is pleased or angry with you |
| 得到某人喜爱/厌恶 |
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| Johnson appears to be back in the government’ s good graces. 约翰逊看起来重又得宠于政府。 |
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| - | His/Her/Your Grace
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| used for talking about or to a duke , a duchess , or an archbishop |
| （对公爵、公爵夫人或大主教的尊称）大人 |
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| - | the (three) Graces
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| three beautiful sister goddesses from ancient Greek stories |
| （古希腊神话中的）美惠三女神 |
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| - | there but for the grace of God (go I)
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| used for saying that if you were less lucky you might be in the same bad situation as someone else |
| 如若不蒙天恩（我就会）（用于表示若自己运气差一些的话，或许就会像他人一样处于困境） |
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