看得見的優雅
這一支是核心畫面本身，落在人、衣著、動作、空間這些看得見的東西上。
graceful beauty · adjective · C1
Beauty of a simple, careful kind, in a person, in clothes, in the way someone moves, or in a place.
優雅
核心畫面
A way to picture it: beauty that comes from taking things away, not adding them. Nothing extra, nothing straining — a plain black dress, a hand that moves without wasted motion. It looks , though it rarely is.
一種「靠減法得來的好看」。沒有多餘的東西、沒有一絲勉強——一件素黑的洋裝、一個沒有多餘動作的手勢、一個房間裡剛剛好的…更多收起
一種「靠減法得來的好看」。沒有多餘的東西、沒有一絲勉強——一件素黑的洋裝、一個沒有多餘動作的手勢、一個房間裡剛剛好的擺設。它給人的感覺是輕鬆做到的，雖然通常並不輕鬆。這裡最關鍵的一點是：elegance 的美不在於「多」，而在於「剛好，而且一點都不費力」——這條線一路通到它形容想法的那個用法。From the word’s history
From Latin ēlegantia “refinement, tastefulness”, related to ēligō “to pick out, select” (ex- “out” + legō “to choose”) — the sense of choosing carefully sits under the modern word: elegance is what's left after the right choices.
來自拉丁文 ēlegantia（精緻、有品味），與 ēligō（挑出來、選擇；ex-「出來」+ legō「挑」）相關，也就是 elect、select 的同一族。「精挑細選」這層意思很能照亮現代的用法：elegance 常常是「選對了之後剩下來的東西」——不是堆上去的，是選剩的。
Wiktionary entry for “elegance” (from Middle French élégance, from Latin ēlegantia)
Two branches
想法上的優雅
從衣著走到想法，靠的是同一個標準：不多不少、不費力。一件優雅的洋裝沒有多餘的裝飾，一個優雅的解法也沒有多餘的步驟——兩邊誇的其實是同一件事，只是一個看得見、一個要懂了才看得見。
elegant simplicity (idea) · adjective · C1
The fact that an idea, a plan, or an answer is very clever and also simple.
巧妙
原始詞典資料4 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。
elegancenoun/ˈɛl.ɪ.ɡəns/
- 1
Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.
- The bride was elegance personified.
- 2
Restraint and grace of style.
- The simple dress had a quiet elegance.
- 3
The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
- The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance.
- 4
datedA refinement or luxury.
- As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good.
- At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances.
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。