dapper

英 ['d?p?] 美['d?p?]

TEM8GRE暢通詞匯

1. 諧音“戴袍、戴袍兒”-----穿金戴銀、穿金戴袍的人，當(dāng)然是衣冠楚楚的樣子了。
2. 諧音“短潑”----短小活潑。
3. 諧音“代跑，代跑兒”-----為什么請(qǐng)他代跑，因?yàn)樗艹C捷、敏捷、精悍，能夠替我跑出好成績。

dapper 整潔漂亮的，動(dòng)作敏捷的

來自PIE*dheb, 厚重的，固定的，引申詞義勇敢的，強(qiáng)壯的，后詞義進(jìn)一步褒義化，形容男人穩(wěn)重的，整潔漂亮的。

dapper: dapper: [15] Modern English dapper connotes neatness, alertness, and liveliness, but its etymological significance as revealed by distant relatives such as Old High German tapfar ‘heavy’, Old Prussian debīkan ‘large’, and Old Slavic debelu ‘thick’, is ‘heavy’. The notion of ‘weightiness’ spread to ‘firmness, endurance in battle’, and hence ‘courage’ (German tapfer and Dutch dapper both mean ‘brave’). English acquired the word, with an apparently ironical change of meaning, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German dapper ‘heavy, stout, bold’.
dapper (adj.): mid-15c., "elegant," from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German dapper "bold, strong, sturdy," later "quick, nimble," from Proto-Germanic *dapraz, perhaps with ironical shift of meaning (cognates: Old High German tapfar "heavy," German tapfer "brave"), from PIE root *dheb- "dense, firm, compressed."

1. He is a dapper little salesman in a business suit.: 他是一個(gè)穿西裝的矮小精悍的推銷員.

2. He was a dapper little Irishman, very vain, homely as a monkey.: 他是個(gè)短小精干的愛爾蘭人, 非常自負(fù), 丑得象只猴子.

3. His manner was aristocratic , his movements dapper and suave.: 他氣宇軒昂, 溫文爾雅,舉止瀟灑.

4. The once dapper , cheerful agent had become seedy looking and bitter.: 昔日風(fēng)度翩翩、容光煥發(fā)的經(jīng)紀(jì)人,今天變成了衣衫褸襤, 蓬頭垢面的人.

5. His dapper self - confidence seemed impenetrable to such hints.: 這類的暗示似乎動(dòng)搖不了他堅(jiān)定的自信.