The state or quality of being agile; nimbleness. 敏捷;灵活敏捷的状态或品质;灵活
Limber or agile in movement. 行动灵便的在运动中轻柔或灵活的
Thanks to agile footwork he always managed to escape his pursuers. 他善於随机应变, 总能摆脱追踪他的人.
agile
[ adj ]
moving quickly and lightly
<adj.all> sleek and agile as a gymnast as nimble as a deer nimble fingers quick of foot the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it
mentally quick
<adj.all> an agile mind nimble wits
Agile \Ag"ile\, a. [F. agile, L. agilis, fr. agere to move. See {Agent}.] Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.
Shaking it with agile hand. --Cowper.
Syn: Active; alert; nimble; brisk; lively; quick.
There is at the moment no working machinery in Tokyo for agile deal-making with Mr. Gorbachev.
No. Eddie darts down the rungs fixed against the harbour wall and jumps, agile in knee-high wellingtons, into his little wooden boat, the Supreme.
Hundreds clung to a wire fence separating them from the motorcade, while the more agile scurried to keep up with the glassed-enclosed popemobile.
He is agile physically as he is mentally; he was an 800 metres runner, a former junior national indoor champion who once beat Steve Ovett. It was through athletics that he acquired his unusual fluency and wide knowledge.
Such a shift promises computers vastly more agile and powerful than today's machines.
If Siegfried Jerusalem was an unusually agile Loge (Wotan's chief counsel), the chief god himself was unusually inert.
I identify him with the system I've been fighting." Years ago, a chess analyst likened Kasparov's agile, bold style to the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Karpov's methodical, rigid style to former Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev.
The generally agile strings produce a slightly grainy sound when called for, and the winds can produce a fine edge.
In his final years, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew has turned his agile mind to erecting intellectual rationalizations for leaving his city-state a legacy of autocracy.
It creates a baffling paradox, one that American industry must resolve if it is to keep pace with the often smaller, more agile entrepreneurs of Southeast Asia.
We have to stay agile," he said.
Even as danced by four of ABT's most talented males, John Gardner, Robert Hill, Kevin McKenzie and the astonishingly agile Robert Wallace, Mr. Tippet's latest work is tough going.