nicety
nicety 英 [ˈnaɪsəti] 美 [ˈnaɪsɪti]
n. 精密；美好；细节；拘泥细节
名词复数:niceties
- Clearly, you're interested in the nicety of a word's meaning if you're checking out this website. A nicety is a fine detail or shade of meaning that anything — not just a word — can possess.
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- n. 精密；美好；细节；拘泥细节
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1. But notwithstanding all nicety of calculations, the real course of Uranus would not at all agree with the one computed.
不过，即使是完全准确的计算，其结果与天王星的运行的实际观察结果也并不完全一致。
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2. But I understood none of this at the time and sat there in increasingly uncomfortable bewilderment, imagining all the while that I had breached some arcane nicety of local etiquette.
但当时我对所有这些一窍不通，只是茫然坐在那里感到越来越不舒服，觉得自己不知在什么地方拂了当地人的美意。
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3. According to Business Tokyo magazine, among the Japanese “gift giving is a necessity, not merely a nicety as in the West.
据《东京商业杂志》所言，“日本人送礼至关重要，而不像西方仅把它当作一件不起眼的事。”
- nicety (n.) mid-14c., "folly, stupidity," from Old French niceté "foolishness, childishness, simplicity," from nice "silly" (see nice). Underwent sense evolution parallel to nice, arriving at "minute, subtle point" 1580s and "exactitude" in 1650s. Phrase to a nicety "exactly" is attested from 1795.
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