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Nimble means able to move quickly and lightly with good control — a nimble dancer, nimble fingers on a keyboard. It is also used about thinking: a nimble mind understands things quickly and changes direction easily. In business, a nimble company can react fast to change.
敏捷的、靈活的
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。
nimbleadj/ˈnɪmbəl/
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Adept at taking or grasping.
- nimble fingers
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Quick and light in movement or action.
- He was too nimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp.
- […] if the men should not agree what to play, but one would have a grave Pavane, another a nimbler Galliard, a third some frisking toy or Iigg, and then all of them should be wilful, none yield to his fellow, but every one scrape on his own tune as loud as he could: what a hideous hateful noise may you imagine would such a mess of Musick be?
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Quickwitted and alert.
- He has a nimble mind and can improvise in any situation.
- "It requires you to be flexible and nimble in your thinking and Huw has already demonstrated that," said Greenwood, [...]
nimbleverb/ˈnɪmbəl/
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To move nimbly.
- Their teeth are regularly and assiduously cleaned by shrimp that nimble in and out of the moray's mouth like ballet dancers in the jaws of a mechanical stage dragon.
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。