comely
comely 英 [ˈkʌmli] 美 [ˈkʌmli]
adj. 清秀的，标致的
比较级:comelier 最高级:comeliest
- Comely means attractive or appropriate. A comely girl is pretty. A comely hairstyle is flattering. If your manners are comely, it means you know the right way to act to put people at their ease.
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- adj. 清秀的，标致的
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1. Here, a comely woman coach jogs alongside an inmate in the prison yard.
这儿，一个清秀的女子教练一起和犯人在监狱院子里慢跑。
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2. And there dwell in this comely garden white peacocks and peacocks that have blue breasts.
在这秀美无比的花园里住着白孔雀和蓝胸孔雀。
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3. I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
耶路撒冷的众女子阿，我虽然黑，却是秀美，如同基达的帐棚，好像所罗门的幔子。
- comely (adj.) c. 1200, "decent, suitable, proper to the time, place, circumstances, or persons;" late 14c., "handsome, fair, graceful, pleasing in appearance" (of a man, woman, or thing), probably from Old English cymlic "lovely, splendid, finely made," from cyme "exquisite, glorious, delicate," which is apparently from West Germanic *kumi- "delicate, feeble" (source also of Old High German chumo "with difficulty," chumig "weak, delicate;" German kaum "hardly, scarcely"). OED compares the sense range of nice.
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