- 1身材勻稱的、曲線好看的
Shapely describes a body — or part of a body — whose outline looks attractive: a shapely figure, shapely legs. It does not mean “having a shape,” which everything has. It means the shape is pleasing to look at. Writers use it of people, and sometimes of a well-formed object, a vase or a hill, though the body use is the usual one. It is a slightly older, word; you meet it more in ads and books than in young people’s chat. Though actually, for a long time it was used mainly of women’s bodies, and that can feel dated or too much about looks. You can still say it of anyone’s form, but many people now pick other words, or say nothing about the body at all.
組成From Middle English schaply, schappely (“well-shaped, beautiful, attractive”), perhaps from Old English *ġesċeaplīċ (“according to design, proper, fit”), suggested by Old English ġesċeaplīċe (“properly, fitting, well”). In today’s English it is shape + -ly.
同家族的字
- shapethe form this adjective says is attractive
- shapelessthe opposite: with no clear or pleasing form
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。
shapelyadj/ˈʃeɪpli/
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Having a pleasing shape, pleasant to look at.
- The more solicitous of the two was Nurse Cramer, a shapely, pretty, sexless girl with a wholesome unattractive face.
- It used to be, whenever Frank passed a rival butcher’s window (and later the curved glass of a supermarket meat counter), he would peer in unjealously, looking for the subtleties that spoke of talent with a knife. Were their fillets shapely?
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