Delicacy

(noun.) subtly skillful handling of a situation.

(noun.) smallness of stature.

(noun.) refined taste; tact.

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• The whole family were quick, brisk, loud-talking, kind-hearted, and not troubled with much delicacy of perception. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Well, no, said Sir James; I feel a delicacy in appearing to dictate. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Well THAT is an odd kind of delicacy! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• In this branch house of ours, Handel, we must have a-- I saw that his delicacy was avoiding the right word, so I said, A clerk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Mr Wegg,' said Venus, 'in a case of so much delicacy, I must trouble you to say what you mean. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But, I could not allow even him to dictate to me on a point of great delicacy, on which I feel very strongly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The good-natured Mrs. Moffat willingly did so, and had the delicacy not to make her a present of it immediately afterward. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• But, Cousin, consider that, if you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very faSt. Delicacy! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• This consisted of every rare delicacy, in and out of season. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• It requires a delicacy of feeling which they have not. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Their delicacy is not to be shocked, or hurt easily. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He had a woman's delicacy of feature, and was--as you may see, though you never saw her, said Herbert to me--exactly like his mother. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• There is no saying much for the delicacy of our good friends, the Eltons, was his next observation. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Isidore's homage was offered with great delicacy and respect. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Suppose I so repeated it to Mr Boffin, as to insinuate that my sensitive delicacy and honour--' 'Very good words, Sophronia. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The rivers flowed with wine and milk: The oaks yielded honey; and nature spontaneously produced her greatest delicacies. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I cannot enjoy delicacies; good things are wasted upon me. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He had newts, snails, and frogs--the two latter delicacies are still highly esteemed in Normandy and Brittany. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Neither would you approve of the delicacies, as they are thought, of Athenian confectionary? 柏拉图. 理想国.

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