- 1機敏、善於應對（尤指說話、臨場）
If someone is adroit, they are clever and , especially in talk and in tight social moments — the person who answers a hard question without making anyone angry, or who turns an argument without looking as if they have ducked it. You meet it in news and books about , law, and careful manners more than in the playground. It is a dressy, slightly French-feeling adjective; in ordinary speech people more often say clever, , sharp, or good with words. Though actually, the older picture behind it is “good with the right hand”: French à droit, “to the right,” because most people work more with that hand. So adroit can still describe hands, but English leans on the words-and-arguments sense. It is a compliment with a cool edge — skill, not warmth.
組成Borrowed from French adroit: à (to) + droit (right, as in the right-hand side). French droit comes from Latin directus, “laid straight.” The idea is “to the right,” and so “skilful.”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
adroitadj/əˈdɹɔɪt/
- 1
deft, dexterous, or skillful
- A ſimple lad, with a whip in one hand, and the other locked in the arm of a young girl, is ſo loſt in gaping aſtoniſhment, that an adroit branch of the family of the Filches is clearing his pockets of their contents.
- [W]hile the press has teemed with a thousand better modes of defending Christianity, unbelievers had been asleep all the while, and dreamed of no adroiter methods of attacking it: […]
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