首页英语词典prettypretty的意思

pretty

英 ['prɪtɪ] 美['prɪti]

英英释义同义词辨析词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

近义词lovely good-looking beautiful handsome

反义词

adj. 漂亮的；可爱的；优美的
adv. 相当地；颇
n. 漂亮的人
n. (Pretty)人名；(英)普雷蒂

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词态变化

复数: pretties;比较级: prettier;最高级: prettiest;名词: prettiness;

中文词源

pretty 美丽的，漂亮的，相当好的，颇，相当

来自古英语praettig,狡猾的，精明的，有技巧的，来自Proto-Germanic*prattuz,夸夸其谈，吹牛，拟声词，词源同prate,prattle.后词义褒义化，引申词义相当好的，美丽的，漂亮的，后用于副词颇，相当。词义演变比较prestige.

英英释意

1. pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing;: "pretty girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room"

2. (used ironically) unexpectedly bad;: "a pretty mess"; "a pretty kettle of fish"

英文词源

pretty: pretty: [OE] In Old English pretty (or prættig, as it was then) meant ‘clever’ in a bad sense – ‘crafty, cunning’. Not until the 15th century had it passed via ‘clever’, ‘skilfully made’, and ‘fine’ to ‘beautiful’. It was a derivative of prætt ‘trick, wile’, which came from a prehistoric West Germanic *pratt- (source also of Dutch part ‘trick’).
pretty (adj.): Old English prættig (West Saxon), pretti (Kentish), *prettig (Mercian) "cunning, skillful, artful, wily, astute," from prætt, *prett "a trick, wile, craft," from Proto-Germanic *pratt- (cognates: Old Norse prettr "a trick," prettugr "tricky;" Frisian pret, Middle Dutch perte, Dutch pret "trick, joke," Dutch prettig "sportive, funny," Flemish pertig "brisk, clever"), of unknown origin.

Connection between Old English and Middle English words is uncertain, but if they are the same, meaning had shifted by c. 1400 to "manly, gallant," and later moved via "attractive, skillfully made," to "fine," to "beautiful in a slight way" (mid-15c.). Ironical use from 1530s. For sense evolution, compare nice, silly. Also used of bees (c. 1400). "After the OE. period the word is unknown till the 15th c., when it becomes all at once frequent in various senses, none identical with the OE., though derivable from it" [OED].

Meaning "not a few, considerable" is from late 15c. With a sense of "moderately," qualifying adjectives and adverbs, since 1560s. Pretty please as an emphatic plea is attested from 1902. A pretty penny "lot of money" is first recorded 1768.
pretty (n.): "a pretty person or thing," 1736, from pretty (adj.).
pretty (v.): 1916, usually with up, from pretty (adj.). Related: Prettied; prettying. Compare prettify.

同义词辨析

beautiful, fair, handsome, lovely, pretty, fine

这些形容词均含"美丽的，漂亮的"之意。

beautiful：普通用词，含义广泛，语气最强，指优美和谐，是一种几乎接近完美的美。指人时通常形容女人或小孩，很少用于描写男子。

fair：正式用词，多用于文学中，形容女子和儿童，侧重外表的美。

handsome：多用于描写男性的英俊潇洒。有时也形容女人，指其五官端正，体态秀丽。

lovely：普通用词，描写人时，主要指女人和小孩的相貌，语气不如beautiful强。

pretty：普通用词，语气比beautiful弱，多用于描写妇女、儿童以及小巧玲珑，精美可爱之物。

fine：指在容貌、身材或风度等方面令人感到可爱。用于事物时，强调形式或内容的优美。

fairly, pretty, quite, rather

这些程度副词都有"相当，颇"之意。

fairly：语意最弱，多用于褒义，表示适度地、尚可的意思。不可与too或比较级连用。

pretty：用法与rather相似。常用于非正式文体。

quite含义比fairly稍强，与不定冠词连用时，一般放在不定冠词之前。

rather语气比quite强，褒意贬意无可使用。可与too和比较级连用。

考试真题

It is utterly confusing to me that people do not recognize this, despite the fact that pretty much anyone who has been a student can tell the difference between their best and worst teachers.

It’s a pretty easy job, but one with lots of downtime, which means you will have plenty of time to catch up on reading, do homework or study for an exam.

The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal.

Ask yourself, Would Grandma consider this food? Does it look like something that might occur in nature? It's pretty much common sense: you want to buy food, not unidentifiable foodlike objects.

The boot time is pretty fast, and he navigates through (浏览 ) a few chapters before swiping into a fully rendered 3D molecule that can be spun around to view its various building blocks.

It is pretty much a one-way street.

They are really pretty little towns with lots of old housesand beautiful tree-lined streets.

Well, I guess it's pretty obvious what you'll be doing most of today.

Also, I've a good chance of winning a scholarship at Leeds, which will be pretty awesome, the benefits of being a music genius.

Anyway, I'm only going to be there for a year, doing my masters, so it's pretty good.

But I get off the phone pretty quickly when I call.

But it's pretty cool if your boss is all right.

Cities that get more rainfall than Seattle include Huston, Memphis, Nashville, and pretty much every major city on the eastern coast, such as New York, Boston, and Miami.

It's a pretty easy job, but one with lots of downtime, which means you will have plenty of time to catch up on reading, do homework or study for an exam.

It's pretty incredible how it has managed to hijack the genes of the algae on which it feeds.

It's pretty much common sense: you want to buy food, not unidentifiable foodlike objects.

When we think of animals and plants, we have a pretty good way of dividing them into two distinct groups: one converts sunlight into energy and the other has to eat food to make its energy.

Wondering if food is still OK to eat after it's dropped on the floor is a pretty common experience.

Young adults who went to college or graduate school were doing pretty well.

Pretty positive.

As a report in The New England Journal of Medicine concluded, Pretty much every proposed innovation found in the health policy literature these days is contained in these measures.

If the Thames were lapping around Big Ben, Londoners would face up to the problem of emissions pretty quickly.

That's pretty generous of him.

You sounded pretty serious on the phone

And then at adulthood, IFPri has actually demonstrated that children who were better nourished have higher wages, by a pretty large margin, by 46 percent.

Because when the dust settles, people are going robe pretty much what they are.

given that there's now over $1.3 trillion in student loans on the books, it's pretty clear that many students are far from sensible.

So far, machines have a pretty hard time emulating creativity, arbitrary enough not to be predicted by a computer, and yet more than simple randomness.

So it was pretty certain that the enemy would not be able to understand the code talkers.

That sounds pretty terrible, but the loss of life has decreased by a factor of 10 simply because we are getting better at warning people.

When you ask people about their concept of stereotypes, they get it pretty much right.

After less than a week, I started noticing that the groceries were running out pretty quickly — we were always suddenly out of something.

But life must be pretty tough for his family now.

Fewer emissions and cheaper travel sound pretty appealing.

I usually got pretty upset and kept asking him why.

In that sense, I'm pretty sure volunteering is more of a selfish act than I'd freely like to admit.

It contained pretty pictures of animals.

It is a truly delightful place, which looks the same as it must have done 100 years ago with its winding streets and pretty cottages.

It's been three weeks since he first started going, so macy and I are pretty used to it now.

Pretty much everyone you know acts differently.

Pretty soon I'd made my way through the supermarket and was back in the fresh air.

Still, the people who exercise 150 minutes a week did pretty well, too, lowering their death risk by 14%.

The researchers say that the keyboard should be pretty straightforward to commercialize and is mostly made of inexpensive, plastic-like parts.

You must be pretty excited about your trip to Europe, Dorothy.

The danger will come with Charles, who has both an expensive taste of lifestyle and a pretty hierarchical view of the world.

At work, people pretty much know what they're supposed to be doing: working, making money, doing the tasks they have to do in order to draw an income.

Parks feature, particularly in the earlier works, such as John hilliard's very funny Across the Park, in which a long-haired stroller is variously smiled at by a pretty girl and unwittingly assaulted in a sequence of images that turn out to be different p

Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls' lives.

词组搭配

pretty much (或 nearly 或 well)

(informal)very nearly

(非正式)几乎；差不多

the case is pretty well over.
这案子差不多结束了。

a pretty penny

(informal)a large sum of money

(非正式)一大笔钱

pretty please

used as an emphatic or wheedling form of request

求求你（强调或讨好的表达方式）

be sitting pretty

(informal)be in an advantageous position or situation

(非正式)占优势的，处于有利地位的

if she could get sponsors, she would be sitting pretty.
如果能得到赞助，她会极占优势。

pretty much

For the most part; mostly

大多数；几乎全部

“The . . . matter was pretty much dying down”(&b{John Strahinich})
“材料差不多要没了”(&b{约翰·斯特拉希尼奇})

实用场景例句

I'm pretty sure I'll be going.: 我相当肯定会去的。

The game was pretty good.: 这个游戏相当不错。

It's pretty hard to explain.: 这事很难解释清楚。

I'm going to have to find a new apartment pretty soon.: 我很快就得找个新住处了。

That performance was pretty impressive.: 那场表演很出色。

Things are looking pretty good!: 形势看来很不错！

One dog looks pretty much like another to me.: 在我看来，狗长得都差不多。

a pretty face: 俏丽的脸

a pretty little girl: 俊俏的小姑娘

You look so pretty in that dress!: 你穿那件连衣裙真漂亮！

pretty clothes: 漂亮的衣服

a pretty garden: 赏心悦目的花园

a pretty name: 优美的名字

(especially British English)She laughed prettily.: 她的笑声很迷人。

The rooms are simply but prettily furnished.: 房间都布置得简朴而美观。

[不可数名词]the prettiness of youth: 青春的美好

‘I didn't know you could play the piano. ’ ‘I'm not just a pretty face, you know! ’: “我不知道你还会弹钢琴呢。”“我可不只是脸蛋儿漂亮，对吧！”

You should have seen him in his swimming trunks─not a pretty sight!: 你应该见识见识他穿游泳裤的样子——真是一景呢！

She's a very charming and very pretty girl.: 她是一个非常迷人的漂亮女孩。

Whitstable is still a very pretty little town.: 惠特斯特布尔仍然是一个非常漂亮的小镇。

...comfortable sofas covered in a pretty floral print.: 罩着漂亮的印花布的舒适沙发

I had a pretty good idea what she was going to do...: 我很清楚她会怎么做。

Pretty soon after my arrival I found lodgings.: 我到达之后，很快就找到了住处。

His new government looks pretty much like the old one...: 他的新政府看起来和旧政府没什么两样。

I travel pretty well every week.: 我几乎每周都出去旅行。

When the war started, they thought they were sitting pretty, because they had all that extra grain.: 战争开始的时候，他们认为自己境况不错，因为他们粮食准备充足。