单词 | gracious |
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音标 | ['greiʃəs] |
解释 | a.大方的,和善的;奢华的 |
红宝书 | 无 |
字源 | gracious (adj.) c.1300, "filled with God's grace," from Old French gracios "courteous, pleasing, kind, friendly" (12c., Modern French gracieux), from Latin gratiosus "enjoying favor, agreeable, obliging; popular, acceptable," from gratia (see grace). Meaning "merciful, benevolent" is from late 14c. As an exclamation, elliptically for gracious God, attested from 1713. |
不择手段背单词 | 无 |
趣味全助记 | 无 |
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