英语词汇“finesse”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

finesse¹ nounfinesse² verb

finessefi‧nesse1 /fəˈnes/ noun [uncountable]

WORD ORIGINfinesse1

Origin:

1500-1600 French fin; ➔ FINE1

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Flame control: a certain amount of finesse is required to fine tune the heat output.
It is the trick of the big-stage musical number but applied to circus with finesse and much tongue-in-cheek humour.
The game was a hard slog with no finesse, despite the promotion aspirations of both sides.
The stats make her a strange hybrid of power and finesse, a combination that she resisted for a while.

if you do something with finesse, you do it with a lot of skill and style:

Dario played the sonata with great finesse.

finesse¹ nounfinesse² verb

finessefinesse2 verb [transitive]

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Kemp uses his creativity to find excuses which are meant to finesse problematic moments.
Roberts finessed his arrival, speaking to Fernandez privately about their shared responsibilities.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

I had a miserable quantitative background and ended up copying some assignments and finessing the rest as best I could.
Mr Chen's approach is to finesse the problem of reunification through a mixture of goodwill and verbal subtlety.
Somehow, we hoped, when the test finally came, she would be able to finesse the written stuff.
The guard would know he was trying to get away and finesse the whole thing!

1to handle a situation well, but in a way that is slightly deceitful2American English to do something with a lot of skill and style

单词	finesse
释义	finesse¹ nounfinesse² verb finessefi‧nesse1 /fəˈnes/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINfinesse1 Origin: 1500-1600 French fin; ➔ FINE1 Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Flame control: a certain amount of finesse is required to fine tune the heat output. It is the trick of the big-stage musical number but applied to circus with finesse and much tongue-in-cheek humour. The game was a hard slog with no finesse, despite the promotion aspirations of both sides. The stats make her a strange hybrid of power and finesse, a combination that she resisted for a while. if you do something with finesse, you do it with a lot of skill and style: Dario played the sonata with great finesse. finesse¹ nounfinesse² verb finessefinesse2 verb [transitive] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Kemp uses his creativity to find excuses which are meant to finesse problematic moments. Roberts finessed his arrival, speaking to Fernandez privately about their shared responsibilities. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS I had a miserable quantitative background and ended up copying some assignments and finessing the rest as best I could. Mr Chen's approach is to finesse the problem of reunification through a mixture of goodwill and verbal subtlety. Somehow, we hoped, when the test finally came, she would be able to finesse the written stuff. The guard would know he was trying to get away and finesse the whole thing! 1to handle a situation well, but in a way that is slightly deceitful2American English to do something with a lot of skill and style
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