The flashcard defines "cute" as an adjective with multiple meanings: lovely and attractive, sexually attractive, and clever. It also provides pronunciations and example sentences for each meaning. The word can also be used in its comparative and superlative forms, "cuter" and "cutest," and has adverbial ("cutely") and noun ("cuteness") forms.
The flashcard defines "cute" as an adjective with multiple meanings: lovely and attractive, sexually attractive, and clever. It also provides pronunciations and example sentences for each meaning. The word can also be used in its comparative and superlative forms, "cuter" and "cutest," and has adverbial ("cutely") and noun ("cuteness") forms.
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]可爱的；漂亮迷人的 Something or someone that is cute is very pretty or attractive, or is intended to appear pretty or attractive.
[INFORMAL 非正式]
Oh, look at that dog! He's so cute.
哦，看看那条狗!它太可爱了。
...a cute little house.
一栋漂亮的小房子
...a cute little baby.
可爱的小宝宝
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]妩媚的；性感的 If you describe someone as cute, you think they are sexually attractive.
[mainly AM 主美]
[INFORMAL 非正式]
There was this girl, and I thought she was really cute.
就是这个女孩，我认为她非常性感。
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]精明的；机灵的 If you describe someone as cute, you mean that they deal with things cleverly.
[AM 美]
The President, trying to be cute, said his liberal arts education had not really prepared him for such complicated issues as this...
总统故作精明地说道，自己所接受的文科教育并不能使自己有能力应付如此复杂的问题。
That's a cute trick.
这是个设计巧妙的骗局。
Oxford
cute/kjuːt; NAmEkjuːt/adjective(cuter,cutest)1pretty and attractive 可爱的；漂亮迷人的◆a cute little baby逗人喜爱的小宝宝◆( BrE) an unbearably cute picture of two kittens (= it seems sentimental) 让人爱得不得了的两只小猫的图片2( informal) ( especially NAmE) sexually attractive 有性吸引力的；性感的◆Check out those cute guys over there!瞧那边那些性感的家伙！3( informal) ( especially NAmE) clever, sometimes in an annoying way because a person is trying to get an advantage for himself or herself 精明的，机灵的（有时使人厌烦）◆She had a really cute idea.她有一个精明绝顶的主意。◆Don't get cute with me!别跟我耍滑头！▶cute·ly/kjuːtli; NAmEkjuːtli/adverb◆to smile cutely可爱地一笑cute·ness/kjuːtnəs; NAmEkjuːtnəs/noun[uncountable ]cutecutercutestcute/kjuːt; NAmEkjuːt/cute·ly/kjuːtli; NAmEkjuːtli/cute·ness/kjuːtnəs; NAmEkjuːtnəs/
LDC
cutecute /kjuːt/ ●●●S2 adjective
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1very pretty or attractive: a cute little puppy The baby’s so cute. That’s a really cute outfit.► see thesaurus at
beautiful
2 especially American English sexually attractive: Tell us about this cute guy you met!3especially American English clever in a way that can seem rude: Their lawyer tried a cute trick.—cutely adverb—cuteness noun [uncountable]
WDF
cute
[kju:t]
级别:cuter, cutest
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Spoken:
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cuter[1211] cutest[2185]
可爱的(88%)，漂亮的(10%)，灵巧(1%)，智取敌方的策略或手段(1%)
adj.可爱的；漂亮的；聪明的，伶俐的
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