precious

音標發(fā)音

• 英式音標 [?pre?.?s]
• 美式音標 [?pre?.?s]
• 國際音標 ['pre??s]
• 英式發(fā)音
• 美式發(fā)音

基本解釋

• adj. 寶貴的；珍貴的；矯揉造作的
• n. (Precious)人名；(英)普雷舍斯，普雷舍絲(女名)

詞源解說

• 13世紀晚期進入英語，直接源自古法語的precios；最初源自拉丁語的pretiosus，意為價值，價格。

詞根記憶

• preci(價值) + ous(…的)→有價值的→珍貴的，寶貴的
• preci(價值) + ous(…的)→有價值的→珍貴的；貴重的
• prec(價值) + ious→有價值的→貴重的
• preci(價值) + ous(…的)→有價值的→寶貴的，珍貴的

同根派生

• adv性質(zhì)的同根詞

  preciously：昂貴地；仔細地；過分講究地。

• n性質(zhì)的同根詞

  preciousness：珍貴；過分講究。

• precious相關(guān)詞

用法辨析

adj. (形容詞)

• precious指的是事物內(nèi)在的價值,常常由于稀有而寶貴,即“寶貴的,珍貴的,貴重的,珍愛的”,這種珍貴無法用錢衡量,失掉后無法補償。precious可修飾具體名詞,也可修飾抽象名詞,還可修飾人和人的感情。有時也用于反語,有諷刺意味,這時無比較級和最高級形式。
• precious也可指語言風格或舉止“過于矯揉造作的,過分講究的”,常用于貶義。
• precious在口語中還可表示“十足的”“完全的”,用于加強語氣。

• precious使用方法
• precious詳細辨析

英漢例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)

用作定語: ～+ n.

• Gold, silver and platinum are precious metals.
  金、銀、白金是貴金屬。

用作表語: S+be+～

• My time is precious; I can only give you a few minutes.
  我的時間是寶貴的,我只能見你幾分鐘。

S+be+～+ prep .-phrase

• Your friendship is most precious to me.
  你的友誼對我來說是非常珍貴的。

S+be+～+to- v

• Grain is too precious to waste.
  糧食十分珍貴,不可浪費。

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詞組短語

用作形容詞 (adj.)

～+名詞

• precious aid 寶貴的援助
• precious book 珍貴的書
• precious experience 寶貴的經(jīng)驗
• precious find 珍貴的發(fā)現(xiàn)
• precious gift 珍貴的禮物

• precious更多詞組

英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• (VALUABLE) of great value because of being rare, expensive, or important
• (NOT NATURAL) behaving in a very formal and unnatural way by giving too much attention to details that are not important and trying too hard to be perfect
• (SHOWING DISLIKE) used to express dislike and/or anger
• very

柯林斯英英字典

• If you say that something such as a resource is precious, you mean that it is valuable and should not be wasted or used badly.
• Precious objects and materials are worth a lot of money because they are rare.
• If something is precious to you, you regard it as important and do not want to lose it.

• precious劍橋字典
• precious柯林斯字典

專業(yè)釋義

哲學

• 貴

  By pushing forward the study on Confucius's social psychological ideas, the second part summarizes the characteristics of Confucius's social psychological ideas as five aspects:"Human is more important than God","Teacheveryone etiquette", "Preach Tao'", "Never blame God, never blame others" and "Peace is precious and always carry out middleof the road", and point out that Confucius's basis attitude to God-human relation is "Human is more important than God"; Confucius's basis principle to deal with people's relation, God-human relation and people-community relation is "Peace is precious and always carry out middle of the road"; the basic conception to individual-community relation is to emphasize the social impact and indoctrination on individual, which is "Teach everyone etiquette"; the important social responsibility of "Preach 'Tao'", and Confucius's broad and nice psychological characters of "Never blame God, never blame others".
  第二部分在對孔子的社會心理思想作進一步研究的基礎(chǔ)之上，將孔子社會心理思想的特點概括為重人輕神、齊之以禮、弘道于世、不怨天、不尤人，以及貴和尚中五個方面，揭示出孔子對待天人關(guān)系的根本態(tài)度是“重人輕神”；處理人際關(guān)系、天人關(guān)系以及人與社會之間關(guān)系的根本原則是“貴和尚中”；對待個人與社會的關(guān)系的基本觀點是既強調(diào)社會對個人的影響和教化，即“齊之以禮”，又倡導(dǎo)“弘道于世”的社會責任感；以及孔子“不怨天、不尤人”的博大胸襟和良好的心理品質(zhì)。

  經(jīng)濟學

• 寶貴的

交通運輸工程

• 貴重的
• 珍貴的