喜樂美語

核心畫面

A useful picture: nothing extra, nothing missing, and the effort doesn't show.

比較像這樣：一件東西恰恰好——沒有多餘的一筆，也沒有缺哪一塊，而且看不出費了多少力。一個人穿得優雅，通常不是身上掛滿…更多收起比較像這樣：一件東西恰恰好——沒有多餘的一筆，也沒有缺哪一塊，而且看不出費了多少力。一個人穿得優雅，通常不是身上掛滿東西，反而是該收的都收乾淨了，留下來的每一樣都有它的位置。這個字讚美的是那種「省下來的功夫」：簡潔、從容、不吃力，看的人覺得舒服卻說不出哪裡特別用力。

Two branches

看得見的優雅

這一族把「恰恰好、不費力」用在眼睛看得到的東西上：人、衣著、動作、空間。

graceful and attractive · adjective · B2

Beautiful and attractive in a graceful, careful way. Used about a person, about the clothes they wear, about the way they move, or about a place such as a room, a building, or a garden.

優雅的；高雅的

想得出來的漂亮

同一個「沒有多餘、恰恰好」的標準從外表移到腦子裡：優雅的不再是形狀，而是想法的形狀。

clever and simple · adjective · B2

An idea, a plan, or a way of solving a problem that is elegant is very clever and very simple at the same time. It does the whole job, and there is nothing extra in it.

巧妙又簡潔的

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。

elegantlyadv

  • 1

    Gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.

    • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
    • Mr. Burns is similarly perfectly cast as a heartless capitalist willing to do anything for a quick buck, even if it means endangering the lives of those around him and Marge elegantly rounds out the main cast as a good, pure-hearted and overly indulgent woman who sees the big, good heart (literally and metaphorically) of a monstrous man-brute.

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。