cute
a. 可爱的, 聪明的, 伶俐的 [医] 品他病
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教材释义与例句
可爱的；漂亮的；聪明的，伶俐的
释义与例句
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1.
Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
可爱
Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
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2.
Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.
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3.
Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
He's got such cute buns.
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4.
Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
The actor's performance was too cute for me. All that mugging to the audience killed the humor.
Don't get cute with me, boy!
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5.
Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
Then Turpin being so very cute, He hid his money in his boot.
Cute trick, but can you do it consistently?
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6.
Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
数学There's a cute alternative proof of this using lambda calculus.
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词源
Aphetic form of acute, originally meaning “keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd” (1731). Meaning transferred to “pretty, fetching” by US students (slang) c. 1834. Meaning drifted further to describe the pleasing attraction to features usually possessed by the young.
来源：wiktionary