suave

英 [swɑːv]

美 [swɑːv]

adj.  精明练达的; 圆滑的

BNC.22149 / COCA.19685

牛津词典

adj.

• 精明练达的；圆滑的
  confident, elegant and polite, sometimes in a way that does not seem sincere

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 精明练达的;圆滑的;温文尔雅的
  Someone who issuaveis charming, polite, and elegant, but may be insincere.
  1. He is a suave, cool and cultured man.
     他是个世故、冷静、有教养的人。

英英释义

adj

• smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
  1. he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage
  2. the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error
  Synonym:politicsmoothbland
• having a sophisticated charm
  1. a debonair gentleman
  Synonym:debonairdebonairedebonnaire

双语例句

• I had difficulty answering his suave questions.
  我难以回答他的一些彬彬有礼的提问。
• The secretary's beautiful figure and suave manners made the office bright.
  秘书形象优雅态度温和，使办公室为之一亮。
• I'm the suave type.
  我是读书人型的。
• Where Root had been suave, knox was often offensive.
  鲁特表现得温和文雅，诺克斯则往往唐突冒失。
• You may feel stuck if your fundamentalist parents railed against sin or if your suave intellectual friends mock anyone who seems enthusiastic.
  如果你的基要主义者的父母反对罪恶，或者如果你的温文尔雅，聪明的朋友们嘲笑任何看上去有激情的人，那么你就会感到困惑。
• He is a suave, cool and cultured man.
  他是个世故、冷静、有教养的人。
• The AON product is only the latest proposed antidote to this reputation anxiety but it does shed interesting light on the effectiveness of suave reputation managers and their adrenalin-fuelled partners, the crisis managers.
  怡安的产品，只是为这种声誉焦虑症而炮制的最新解毒剂，但它的确饶有趣味地展示了彬彬有礼的声誉经理和肾上腺素满满的危机经理们的效力。
• He was suave and ingratiating.
  他举止文雅，善于奉迎。
• In conversation, he was suave and urbane.
  谈话时，他温和有礼。
• To him and his beautiful, honest, but dull daughter the major is equally suave.
  少校对他和他那美丽、忠厚但头脑迟钝的女儿的态度都一样和颜悦色。