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Amiable Amicable Friendly Pleasant Person Refers Amiably 英

英语单词 amiable
英美音标 英 ['eɪmiəbl] 美 ['eɪmiəbl]
中文释义 adj.和蔼的;亲切的
英语例句 (1) The hostess received her friends with an amiable smile.
(2) You can sort out any differences you have in an amiable manner.
中文例句 (1) 女主人带着亲切的微笑迎接朋友们的到来。
(2) 你可以以温柔亲切的主式澄清所有的误会。
vocabulary简明 A friendly, pleasant person could be described as amiable. Airline flight attendants tend to be amiable. The people monitoring the school's cafeteria? Maybe not.
vocabulary扩展 An amiable person is good-natured and easy to get along with. Add one letter and you get amicable, a word with a common ancestor (Latin amicabilis) and a similar meaning. But while amiable refers to friendly people, amicable refers to friendly relations between them; two amiable people who no longer want to be married to one another might have an amicable divorce.
柯林斯解释
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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]和蔼可亲的;令人愉悦的 Someone who is amiable is friendly and pleasant to be with.
  [WRITTEN 笔语]
  • She had been surprised at how amiable and polite he had seemed.

    看到他如此和蔼可亲、彬彬有礼,她非常惊讶。

amiably
  • We chatted amiably about old friends.

    谈及老朋友,我们聊得非常愉快。

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