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tact n.机智；手法 (1) 我们极为信任他的机智和谨慎。(2) 外交部长必须机智老练。 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.

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英 [tækt] 美 [tækt] (1) We reposed great trust in his tact and discretion.(2) A minister of foreign affairs has to have tact. 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. 1[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]（言谈举止的）老练，圆通，得体，乖巧 Tact is the ability to avoid upsetting or offending people by being careful not to say or do things that would hurt their feelings. On this occasion the press have not been intrusive and they have shown great tact.媒体此次并没有过多纠缠，表现十分得体。...helping to smooth over problems with great tact and efficiency.老练、高效地帮助顺利解决了难题

英语单词	tact
英美音标	英 [tækt] 美 [tækt]
中文释义	n.机智；手法
英语例句	(1) We reposed great trust in his tact and discretion. (2) A minister of foreign affairs has to have tact.
中文例句	(1) 我们极为信任他的机智和谨慎。 (2) 外交部长必须机智老练。
vocabulary简明	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.
vocabulary扩展	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.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]（言谈举止的）老练，圆通，得体，乖巧 Tact is the ability to avoid upsetting or offending people by being careful not to say or do things that would hurt their feelings. On this occasion the press have not been intrusive and they have shown great tact. 媒体此次并没有过多纠缠，表现十分得体。 ...helping to smooth over problems with great tact and efficiency. 老练、高效地帮助顺利解决了难题

Tact Great Don’t Foot Avoid Offending People 英