Elegant

(adj.) refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; 'elegant handwriting'; 'an elegant dark suit'; 'she was elegant to her fingertips'; 'small churches with elegant white spires'; 'an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid' .

(adj.) displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution; 'an elegant dancer'; 'an elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise' .

(adj.) suggesting taste, ease, and wealth .

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• Jane Fairfax was very elegant, remarkably elegant; and she had herself the highest value for elegance. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Then, her understanding was beyond every suspicion, quick and clear; and her manners were the mirror of her own modest and elegant mind. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Her figure was elegant, and she walked well; but Darcy, at whom it was all aimed, was still inflexibly studious. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I like your nice manners and refined ways of speaking, when you don't try to be elegant. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• They said they were elegant and very moderate in price. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Therefore, to use the expressive, if not elegant, language of a schoolgirl, He was as nervous as a witch and as cross as a bear. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The police would scare him to death first with a storm of their elegant blasphemy, and then pull him to pieces getting him away from there. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I had seen her last in elegant evening attire. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Mr. Crawford was a most pleasant, gentleman-like man; his sister a sweet, pretty, elegant, lively girl. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The next evening found us all quite _rayonnante_, waiting for our dinner in Mr. Dick's elegant drawing-room. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Mrs. Rogers whispered Mrs. Raddle that he was really an elegant young man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which other people may observe. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Her figure is elegant and has the effect of being tall. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Her body was long and elegant, her face was crushed tiny like a beetle's, she had rows of round heavy collars, like a column of quoits, on her neck. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Here Bella, deriving no comfort from her charming bonnet and her elegant dress, burst into tears. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Nor was her respect for him, though it made her more quiet, at all likely to make her more elegant. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I never in my life saw anything more elegant than their dresses. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• But sometimes of an evening, before we went to cards, he would read something aloud out of the Elegant Extracts, very entertaining. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Very nicely dressed, indeed; a remarkably elegant gown. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• We copied it from the Elegant Extracts. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Mrs. Shaw and her maid found plenty of occupation in restoring Margaret's wardrobe to a state of elegant variety. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The whole to conclude with a chaste and elegant GENERAL SLAUGHTER! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• And his long, pale, rather elegant face flickered as he made his sarcastic remarks. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• How elegant he looks! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• On our arrival at Livius's lodgings in Dover Street, we found an elegant, cold supper laid out, with plenty of champagne on the side-board. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• But you have brought the elegant turn-out, my love? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I roused myself, and looked about me in the room where I was left alone: this was furnished like the first, only after a more elegant manner. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• This ingenious article itself, without the elegant domino-box, card-basket, .c. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• You can dress for both, and be as elegant as you please. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It looked like a caf?but was more elegant. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

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