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Picture movement with no jerks and no visible effort — a dancer crossing a stage, a bird turning in the air, or the long curve of a bridge. Nothing catches, nothing is forced, and watching it is easy on the eye. That smoothness is the whole of graceful; when it is used about a person's behaviour, the same easy, unforced quality has simply moved from the body to the way someone handles other people.
可以想成一種「沒有卡頓、也看不出用力」的流動：舞者橫過舞台、鳥在空中轉彎，或是一座橋拉出的長弧線。沒有任何一處硬邦邦…更多收起
可以想成一種「沒有卡頓、也看不出用力」的流動：舞者橫過舞台、鳥在空中轉彎，或是一座橋拉出的長弧線。沒有任何一處硬邦邦、沒有一處看得出勉強，看的人眼睛很舒服。graceful 講的就是這份順暢；當它用在待人處事上，那份「不卡、不硬」只是從身體搬到了應對上——難堪的場面到了這種人手裡，也能滑順地過去。原始詞典資料3 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。
gracefuladj/ˈɡɹeɪsfʊl/
- 1
Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
- She is a graceful dancer.
- The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
- 2
Magnanimous, lacking arrogance or complaint; gracious.
- The athlete's graceful acceptance of the controversial second-place finish won the admiration of the spectators.
- 3
computingengineeringmathematicsGradual and non-disruptive.
- Bringing a system down cleanly will preserve the operating system and some log files, but again will destroy the contents of the RAM (the volatile data). Windows and Linux are two operating systems that require a graceful shutdown.
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。