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Beauteous means beautiful. That is the whole meaning — but not the whole story of how it feels. It is an old, poetic adjective. You will find it in Shakespeare and in high, old-fashioned verse; you will almost never hear it in a shop, a text message, or a normal conversation. If you call a person beauteous today, you sound as if you have out of a play. Beautiful is the living word; beauteous is the same idea in a costume. Teachers may still like it when you meet it in a poem, because it keeps the rhythm or the old voice. Outside literature, leave it on the page.
美麗的(文/古;詩裡才常見,口語請用 beautiful)
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
beauteousadj/ˈbjuːtɪəs/
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formalliterarybeautiful.
- VVhy didſt thou promiſe ſuch a beautious day, And make me trauaile forth without my cloake, To let bace cloudes ore-take me in my way, Hiding thy brau'ry in their rotten ſmoke.
- O wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there heere? / How beauteous mankinde is? O braue new world / That has ſuch people in't.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。