beauty

1. N-UNCOUNT Beauty is the state or quality of being beautiful. 美麗

...an area of outstanding natural beauty. …一処具有非凡自然之美的地區(qū)。

2. N-COUNT A beauty is a beautiful woman. 美人[journalism]

She is known as a great beauty. 她是個(gè)衆(zhòng)所皆知的大美人。

3. N-COUNT You can say that something is a beauty when you think it is very good. 美的東西[非正式]

It was the one opportunity in the game – the pass was a real beauty, but the shot was poor. 那是比賽中的一個(gè)機(jī)會(huì)–傳球的確很漂亮，但射門卻很糟。

4. N-COUNT The beauties of something are its attractive qualities or features. 麗質(zhì)[文學(xué)性]

He was beginning to enjoy the beauties of nature. 他漸漸喜歡上了大自然的迷人之処。

5. ADJ Beauty is used to describe people, products, and activities that are concerned with making women look beautiful. 美容的[ADJ n]

Additional beauty treatments can be booked in advance. 額外的美容項(xiàng)目可以提前預(yù)訂。

6. N-COUNT If you say that a particular feature is the beauty of something, you mean that this feature is what makes the thing so good. 優(yōu)點(diǎn); 妙処

There would be no effect on animals – that's the beauty of such water-based materials. 它將不會(huì)對(duì)動(dòng)物産生影響–這就是該種基於水的材料的優(yōu)點(diǎn)所在。