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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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