Front | tact |
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Pron | [tækt] |
Back | 【tact】 n.机智 A minister of foreign affairs who lacks tact is a dangerous man. 缺乏机智的外交部长是个危险的人物。 |
Vocab | tactconsideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offense
To talk carefully without hurting anyone’s feelings, that’s tact. Politicians have tact, which makes them good at speaking about sensitive matters without making fools of themselves. At least, sometimes they have tact. Around a friend who’s afraid of snakes, you use tact when talking about reptiles because you don’t want to upset them. The Latin root word tangere means “touch,” and a person with tact avoids touching dangerous words like they are an electric fence. When you say something without tact, you “put your foot in your mouth,” as the phrase goes. You don’t literally put your foot in your mouth, although if you did you’d avoid offending people with words. All forms of 'tact' will appear on average once every 610 pages. tact tactful tactless tactfully tactfulness untactful tactlessly tactlessness |
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