Dainty

(noun.) something considered choice to eat.

(adj.) delicately beautiful; 'a dainty teacup'; 'an exquisite cameo' .

(adj.) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; 'too nice about his food to take to camp cooking'; 'so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow' .

(adj.) affectedly dainty or refined .

(adj.) especially pleasing to the taste; 'a dainty dish to set before a kind'; .

录入:温思罗普

• A dainty song, said Wamba, when they had finished their carol, and I swear by my bauble, a pretty moral! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• As she turned the pages rich in dainty devices with very pardonable pride, her eye fell upon one verse that made her stop and think. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Even if she couldn't love me, it was a great deal to me just to see her dainty form about the house, and to hear the sound of her voice. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• She was too tired, sometimes, even to smile, John grew dyspeptic after a course of dainty dishes and ungratefully demanded plain fare. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I never go into the kitchen but there is a saucepan on the fire, cooking him some dainty. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Our dainty fare was often exchanged for blows and imprisonment. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She was born for all that is beautiful and dainty. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I did not understand then that there lay any special significance in his reference to other dainties. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Servants brought in salvers covered with numerous cool dainties, and the performers disappeared to get ready for the second charade-tableau. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She also eats other dainties. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• These are furnished, as you will note from the illustration (Fig. 16), with suitable cooking pans for the preparation of chafing-dish dainties. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• She is the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.

校对:塞勒斯特