sweetness and light

短语

社会（或政治上）的和谐

发音

UK /ˌswiːtnəs n̩ ˈlaɪt/
AU
UK /ˌswitnəs n̩ ˈlaɪt/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    That which is good, pleasant, pure, etc.

    蜜里调油

    习语 不可数

词汇关系

名词

上位词 6

affability affableness amiability amiableness bonhomie geniality

词源

First used by the Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) in A Full and True Account of the Battel Fought Last Friday, between the Antient and the Modern Books in St. James’s Library, known as “The Battle of the Books”, which was originally published in A Tale of a Tub (1704): see the quotation.

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