suave

英 [swɑːv]

美 [swɑːv]

adj.  精明练达的; 圆滑的

BNC.22149 / COCA.19685

牛津词典

adj.

• 精明练达的；圆滑的
  confident, elegant and polite, sometimes in a way that does not seem sincere

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 精明练达的;圆滑的;温文尔雅的
  Someone who issuaveis charming, polite, and elegant, but may be insincere.
  1. He is a suave, cool and cultured man.
     他是个世故、冷静、有教养的人。

英英释义

adj

• smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
  1. he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage
  2. the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error
  Synonym:politicsmoothbland
• having a sophisticated charm
  1. a debonair gentleman
  Synonym:debonairdebonairedebonnaire

双语例句

• He is a suave, cool and cultured man.
  他是个世故、冷静、有教养的人。
• The modern vampire in popular culture is more attractive, suave, and fashionably dressed than the Old World Slavic vampires, adding to the resurgence of their appeal, he added.
  他补充说道，与斯拉夫旧世界中的吸血鬼相比，流行文化中的现代吸血鬼更有吸引力、更文雅、穿著更时髦，增添其魅力的复苏。
• You may feel stuck if your fundamentalist parents railed against sin or if your suave intellectual friends mock anyone who seems enthusiastic.
  如果你的基要主义者的父母反对罪恶，或者如果你的温文尔雅，聪明的朋友们嘲笑任何看上去有激情的人，那么你就会感到困惑。
• The suave and reasonable weight of his dislikes and his approvals stirred Shelton up to feel ironical and insignificant.
  他那平和的恰如其分的爱憎，激起了谢尔顿的感情，使他有玩世不恭和无足轻重的感觉。
• To him and his beautiful, honest, but dull daughter the major is equally suave.
  少校对他和他那美丽、忠厚但头脑迟钝的女儿的态度都一样和颜悦色。
• Where Root had been suave, knox was often offensive.
  鲁特表现得温和文雅，诺克斯则往往唐突冒失。
• How easily dazzled and deceived we are by eloquence, job title, degrees, high honors, fancy possessions, expensive clothing, or a suave demeanor.
  我们是多么容易就被迷惑以及欺骗；口才，职称，学位，名声，异想天开的财物，昂贵的衣物，或是殷勤讨好的举止。
• Melanie had never seen a man cry and of all men, rhett, so suave, so mocking, so eternally sure of himself.
  媚兰从没看见男人哭过，尤其是瑞德这样的男人，那么温和，那么喜爱嘲弄，又那么永远相信自己。
• He was a spry, suave, and very precise general.
  他是一位生气勃勃，温文尔雅，一丝不苟的将军。
• Cocktails are once again recognized by modern sophisticates as being the tipple of the suave.
  现代风雅之士再次将鸡尾酒视为柔和的烈酒。