sprightly

a. 活泼的, 愉快的 adv. 活泼地, 愉快地

发音

US /ˈspɹaɪtli/
UK /ˈspɹaɪtli/

词形变化

sprightlier 比较级 sprightlier sprightliest sprightliest 最高级

别名

sprightlie spritely

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Animated, gay, or vivacious; lively, spirited.

  2. 2.

    Of a person: full of life and vigour, especially with a light and springy step.

  3. 3.

    Of a person: full of life and vigour, especially with a light and springy step.

    Especially of an older person: energetic and in good health; spry.

  4. 4.

    Of or relating to a sprite; ghostly, spectral.

    废旧 罕用
adv.
  1. 1.

    In a lively and vigorous way; sprightlily.

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近义相关 1

spirited

词源

From spright + -ly (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘behaving like, having the nature of’). Spright is an obsolete variant of sprite (“a shade, spirit; elf, fairy, goblin; apparition, ghost”), from Middle English sprit (“principle of life; soul, especially at the point of death; immaterial being (angel, demon, apparition, ghost, etc.); divine inspiration; Holy Spirit; the mind, intellect, reason; mental faculties, senses; power of prophecy; character, disposition; courage, resolution; mood, state of mind; human will; breath; (alchemy) volatile substance”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman esprite, esprit and Middle French esprit, variants of Anglo-Norman, Middle French, Old French espirit, esperit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus (“air; breath; breathing; ghost, spirit”), from spīrō (“to breathe; to breathe out, exhale”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow; to breathe”)) + -tus (“suffix forming verbal nouns from verbs”).

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