| 单词 | merry |
| 释义 | mer·ry I. 1. archaic 2. a. < happy as the merry whistle of a schoolboy — John Burroughs > < spun yarns that are still merry reading — American Guide Series: Virginia > < the windows were alight; signs of merry life within — George Meredith > b. obsolete c. < became merry and befuddled — George Woodbury > d. archaic 3. < a merry holiday time > 4. of a dog 5. < a major factor in keeping industrial wheels turning at a merry clip — Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review > — often used as an intensive < gave him merry hell > Synonyms: < very kind merry young people, disposed to take things as gaily as they might — W.M.Thackeray > < the song of the merry encounter of some clerk or cavalier with a mocking or complaisant shepherdess — H.O.Taylor > blithe suggests a fresh lightheartedness lastingly glad, buoyant, and debonair < then they both laughed together, and heard their own laughter returning in the echoes, and laughed again at the response, so that the ancient and solemn grove became full of merriment for these two blithe spirits — Nathaniel Hawthorne > < a blithe tale, and a pleasant solvent of anxiety and gloom — Amy Loveman > jocund may suggest a habit of exhilaration, elation, good humor, cheer, or beaming complaisance < this they appeared to regard rather as a jocund form of sport than a serious employment, and often the professor's arid chuckle echoed upon the chime of Shiloh's fiery laughter — Elinor Wylie > < the great rumbling, roaring, jocund tornado of a man, all masculine save sometimes a catlike glint, hardly a twinkle, in his merry eyes — W.A.White > jovial describes the convivially jolly, taking a high pleasure in good fellowship < a jovial, full-stomached, portly government servant with a marvelous capacity for making bad puns in English — Rudyard Kipling > < as he roamed with his companions about Assisi singing jovial choruses and himself the leader of the frolic — H.O.Taylor > jolly may suggest the abundant high spirits that go with laughing, bantering, and jesting < the most colorful restaurants are those that cater to Swedish patronage, and here is often a jolly crowd made up mostly of workingmen with their wives or girls, with here and there a professor from the university, all sharing with gusto the beer, the lutefisk, and the occasional outburst of song — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < ebullient, jolly, big-bosomed hoydens, very clearly neither maids nor wives — W.B.Adams > II. |
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