nicer [
'naisə]
a. 更好的(nice的比较级)
- That would be nicer still/still nicer.
那就更好了. - Be nicer to him. You shouldn't mess around with him like that.
对他好些, 你不该对他那麽随便.
Nice \Nice\ (n[imac]s), a. [Compar. {Nicer} (n[imac]"s[~e]r);
superl. {Nicest}.] [OE., foolish, fr. OF. nice ignorant,
fool, fr. L. nescius ignorant; ne not + scius knowing, scire
to know. Perhaps influenced by E. nesh delicate, soft. See
{No}, and {Science}.]
1. Foolish; silly; simple; ignorant; also, weak; effeminate.
[Obs.] --Gower.
But say that we ben wise and nothing nice.
--Chaucer.
2. Of trifling moment; unimportant; trivial. [Obs.]
The letter was not nice, but full of charge
Of dear import. --Shak.
3. Overscrupulous or exacting; hard to please or satisfy;
fastidious in small matters.
Curious not knowing, not exact but nice. --Pope.
And to taste
Think not I shall be nice. --Milton.
4. Delicate; refined; dainty; pure.
Dear love, continue nice and chaste. --Donne.
A nice and subtile happiness. --Milton.
5. Apprehending slight differences or delicate distinctions;
distinguishing accurately or minutely; carefully
discriminating; as, a nice taste or judgment. ``Our author
happy in a judge so nice.'' --Pope. ``Nice verbal
criticism.'' --Coleridge.
6. Done or made with careful labor; suited to excite
admiration on account of exactness; evidencing great
skill; exact; fine; finished; as, nice proportions, nice
workmanship, a nice application; exactly or fastidiously
discriminated; requiring close discrimination; as, a nice
point of law, a nice distinction in philosophy.
The difference is too nice
Where ends the virtue, or begins the vice. --Pope.
7. Pleasing; agreeable; gratifying; delightful; good; as, a
nice party; a nice excursion; a nice day; a nice sauce,
etc. [Loosely & Colloquially]
8. Pleasant; kind; as, a nice person.
[PJC]
9. Hence: Well-mannered; well-behaved; as, nice children.
[PJC]
He's making a list, checking it twice.
Gonna find out who's naughty or nice
Santa Claus is coming to town. --Song.
{To make nice of}, to be scrupulous about. [Obs.] --Shak.
Syn: Dainty; delicate; exquisite; fine; accurate; exact;
correct; precise; particular; pleasant; kind;
scrupulous; punctilious; fastidious; squeamish; finical;
effeminate; silly; well-mannered; well-behaved.
- She only hopes that a post-apartheid government will make it just that little bit nicer.
- "People are nicer out here.
- "You couldn't ask for nicer, more generous venture people.
- But they were nicer back then compared to today," the maybe King says on the tape, which comes with the book.
- If you lived in a nice neighborhood, he'd be one of the nicer neighbors," said Peter Bernstein, senior analyst at Probe Research Inc. in Cedar Knolls, N.J.
- Many of the women believed they were being transferred to a nicer facility and some volunteered to go to Florida, said Fromme, who is serving a life term for attempting to kill then-President Gerald Ford in 1975.
- "It would be nicer to wait until something is a sure thing.
- "We couldn't possibly, this Christmas season, have a nicer gift," said Gov. Bill Clements, on hand for the pledge.
- "The Soviets couldn't be nicer.
- "This is one of the nicer ironies of our times," Thornburgh said. "We're now taking that money and turning it against those criminals from whom it was so justly taken.
- Mount says, "so if you knew you had to sit down with him you'd probably be a little nicer."
- Her grandmother is much nicer than the one depicted in "Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog."
- Key said Louisiana voters prefer "hell-of-a-fellow" candidates, with "an earthy, occasionally profane, rip-roaring appeal, colored by disrespect if not ridicule of the nicer people."
- The trustees trembled, and the Sainsbury family anted up for a nicer building without the crass protrusion.
- "It's a little bit unusual," the principal said. "It would be nicer to have a football game." Q: You say this pre-summit summit is not meant to bail out Mr. Gorbachev politically.
- "I used to drive all of my piano teachers crazy because I'd be playing Chopin or Beethoven, and I'd always think of what I thought was a nicer way of finishing a phrase," he says, recalling his precocious childhood.
- The boys were nicer, for a start; my favourite teacher had to marry the matron, but no one wrote a single ribald rhyme about him.
- I sort of attract nicer men," men who are not only interested in appearances, Helen said.
- It might be even nicer to have modally indifferent policies.
- You are feeling upset and nothing would be nicer than someone to take care of the details.
- What could be nicer for lunch in the garden when summer weather plays fair? A few choice meats and fish are usual.
- The press must be nicer to the House of Windsor, and the House of Windsor must be nicer to its poor relations. Dominic Lawson is editor of The Spectator.
- The press must be nicer to the House of Windsor, and the House of Windsor must be nicer to its poor relations. Dominic Lawson is editor of The Spectator.
- He says the federal money is needed to build a "much nicer project" with landscaping and eye-catching design features.
- I was nicer to people," she says.
- "It is a common fallacy among Americans to believe Europeans are nicer than Americans and more liberal than Americans," she said.
- A nicer part." Africans and expatriates are as often tied together by misunderstanding as by sympathy.
- But Mehta allowed that New York would be nicer if cabbies smiled.
- It will mean more free houses, which means more competition." "You're going to have much nicer pubs in which to drink," said John Turner, a property refurbisher.
- In Kingsley Amis' novel Lucky Jim, Jim Dixon expounds a theory that nice things are nicer than nasty ones.