pleasant

B1 CET-4 Oxf 3000 初中 FREQ #3259 ★★★☆☆

a. 愉快的, 可爱的, 活泼的, 亲切的

发音

US /ˈplɛz.ənt/
AU /ˈplez.ənt/

词形变化

pleasants 复数 pleasants more pleasant 比较级 pleasanter pleasantest pleasanter 比较级 most pleasant 最高级 pleasantest 最高级

别名

pleasaunt plesaunt

教材释义与例句

名词

(Pleasant)人名;(英)普莱曾特

形容词

令人愉快的,舒适的;讨人喜欢的,和蔼可亲的

enjoyable or attractive and making you feel happy

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.

    废旧

    1696, uncredited translator, The General History of the Quakers by Gerard Croese, London: John Dunton, Book 2, p. 96, Yea, in the Courts of Kings and Princes, their Fools, and Pleasants, which they kept to relax them from grief and pensiveness, could not show themselves more dexterously ridiculous, than by representing the Quakers, or aping the motions of their mouth, voice, gesture, and countenance:

adj. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.

    愉快

    We had a pleasant walk around the town.

    It wasn't so hot outside, but pleasant enough to have lunch in the garden.

  2. 2.

    Facetious, joking.

    废旧

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词源

From Middle English plesaunte, from Old French plaisant. By surface analysis, please + -ant. Related to Dutch plezant (“full of fun or pleasure”). Partly displaced Old English wynsum, which became Modern English winsome.

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