| 单词 | lively |
| 释义 | live·ly I. 1. obsolete 2. < is a lively and fluent conversationalist — Arthur Knight > < the school's great tradition of lively teaching — N.M.Pusey > < two Californians … were lively entries — S.H.Adams > < a Glasgow journalist with a lively mind and ready wit — Gilbert Harding > 3. < a lively sense of the ludicrous — T.L.Peacock > < roused his liveliest disgust — John Buchan > < a lively trade in farm products — H.E.Starr > 4. < the lively charm of Florentine and Venetian artists — American Guide Series: New York City > < a lively, flashing wit > < it was moist and overgrown with mosses, ferns, creepers, and low shrubs, all of the liveliest green — W.H.Hudson †1922 > 5. < many a peer of England brews livelier liquor than the Muse — A.E.Housman > 6. a. b. of a baseball < the pitchers know they are throwing that lively ball — Ted Williams > c. < a lively boat > 7. a. < the Detroit river … surface was lively with craft of all descriptions — American Guide Series: Michigan > b. < enemy artillery made things lively for a while > < speakers from across the aisle gave then a lively time > Synonyms: < the liveliest, the most provocative, and the most curiously informed study of the current political situation … written with energy and with racy humor — H.S.Commager > < boomtowns, stomping dances, big talk, hope unlimited, a veritable explosion of moving, building, and moving, kept things lively — Russell Lord > animated is close to lively and may apply to the spirited, sparkling, or quite active < even the hardest of his friends … became animated when he took her hand, tried to meet the gay challenge in her eyes and to reply cleverly to the droll word of greeting on her lips — Willa Cather > < an animated chatter, like the bubbles of champagne made articulate — Joseph Hergesheimer > vivacious suggests a very active liveliness, often sportive, compelling, or alluring < they began to laugh and play, and turn heels over head, showing themselves jolly and vivacious brats — Nathaniel Hawthorne > < remember her as very pretty and vivacious. I never met a girl with as much zip as she had in those days — Ring Lardner > sprightly, close to vivacious, may suggest a liveliness that is alert and spirited < the thrill of his enthusiasm made him walk with an elastic step. He was sprightly, vigorous, fiery in his belief in success — Stephen Crane > < Mrs. Thomas, sprightly again, laughed with Dylan as they recounted old stories the day's visits had recalled, and waved greetings to friends — J.M.Brinnin > gay suggests demonstrative carefreeness, sometimes marked by merriment or exuberance < three gay girls, overflowing with life, health, and youth; and full of spirits and mischief — Herman Melville > < a gay world with its country squires and their horses and racing, its Madeira drinking, its promenades and dancing and assemblies — V.L.Parrington > II. < now then, step lively there > |
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