jaunty
jaunty 英 [ˈdʒɔ:nti] 美 [ˈdʒɔnti]
adj. 快活的；活泼的；洋洋得意的；感到自信和自满的
- Jaunty combines ideas such as cheerful, spiffy, upbeat, and natty into one delightfully economical adjective that means all of those things at once!
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- adj. 快活的；活泼的；洋洋得意的；感到自信和自满的
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1. There are some useful colour diagrams and photographs, and the prose is jaunty.
书里有一些实用的彩图和照片，然而文字却是洋洋得意的口吻。
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2. With a pink lei on one shoulder and a jaunty cap on the other, the robot was surrounded by more than 100 young software engineers, each sitting with a wirelessly connected laptop.
100多位年轻的软件工程师，各自坐在一个无线连接的笔记本前，簇拥着这个肩上有个粉红色的花环，戴着一顶活泼帽子的机器人。
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3. The photos include a black-and-white headshot of the future Monroe wearing a jaunty beret, another of her in a halter top and a color picture of her smiling in a striped bikini on the sand.
此批照片包括两张黑白头像照，一张是“未来梦露”头戴活泼贝雷帽，另一张是她身着露背吊带衫；还包括一张她在沙滩身着条纹比基尼的微笑彩照（译注：实际有三张黑白照，第三张是梦露穿格子衬衫）。
- jaunty (adj.) also janty, jantee, etc., 1660s, "elegant, stylish," an imperfect or jocular attempt to render into English the contemporary pronunciation of French gentil "nice, pleasing," in Old French "noble" (see gentle). Meaning "easy and sprightly in manner" first attested 1670s. The same French word otherwise was Englished as genteel. Related: Jauntily; jauntiness.
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