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grace
英 [greɪs]美 [ɡres]
n. 優雅；恩惠；魅力；慈悲
vt. 使優美
n. (Grace)人名；(英)格雷斯，格雷絲 (女名)；(法)格拉斯
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1. 哥哥比賽真優雅(跑得那麼帥呀！).中文詞源
grace 優雅，恩寵
來自PIE*gwere, 恩惠，眷顧，進一步來自PIE*gher, 神恩，鼓勵，詞源同charisma, exhort. 原指神的恩寵，好感，感謝，神賜予的美德，美麗，後詞義通用化。
英語詞源
grace
grace: [12] Latin grātus meant ‘pleasing’. Its most obvious English descendants are grateful, gratify, gratuity, etc, but it is also responsible for grace (not to mention the even better disguised agree). Its derived noun grātia ‘pleasure, favour, thanks’ passed into English via Old French grace. Gracious [13] comes ultimately from Latin grātiōsus; grateful [15] is an English formation. (The apparently similar gracile ‘slender’ [17], incidentally, is not etymologically related; it comes from Latin gracilis ‘slender’.)
=> agree, grateful
Grace
fem. proper name, literally "favor, grace;" see grace (n.).
grace (n.)
late 12c., "God's unmerited favor, love, or help," from Old French grace "pardon, divine grace, mercy; favor, thanks; elegance, virtue" (12c., Modern French grâce), from Latin gratia "favor, esteem, regard; pleasing quality, good will, gratitude" (source of Italian grazia, Spanish gracia; in Church use translating Greek kharisma), from gratus "pleasing, agreeable," from PIE *gwreto-, suffixed form of root *gwere- (3) "to favor" (cognates: Sanskrit grnati "sings, praises, announces," Lithuanian giriu "to praise, celebrate," Avestan gar- "to praise").
Sense of "virtue" is early 14c., that of "beauty of form or movement, pleasing quality" is mid-14c. In classical sense, "one of the three sister goddesses (Latin Gratiæ, Greek Kharites), bestowers of beauty and charm," it is first recorded in English 1579 in Spenser. In music, "an embellishment not essential to the melody or harmony," 1650s. As the name of the short prayer that is said before or after a meal (early 13c.; until 16c. usually graces) has a sense of "gratitude." As a title of honor, c. 1500.
grace (v.)
c. 1200, "to thank," from Old French graciier "thank, give thanks to; praise," from grace "mercy, favor, thanks, virtue" (see grace (n.)). Meaning "to show favor" (mid-15c.) led to that of "to lend or add grace to something" (1580s, as in grace us with your presence), which is the root of the musical sense in grace notes (1650s). Related: Graced; gracing.
權威例句
1. Grace tapped on the bedroom door and went in.
格雷絲輕輕敲了敲臥室的門，走了進去。
2. Grace laid out the knives and forks at the lunch-table.
格雷絲把刀叉擺放在午餐桌上。
3. Grace allowed her mind to wander to other things.
格雷絲任由自己的思緒遊走。
4. It was only by the grace of God that no one died.
承蒙上帝保佑才無人死亡。
5. Grace Robertson started as a photographer with Picture Post in 1947.
格雷斯·羅伯遜於1947年參加工作，做了《圖片郵報》雜誌的一名攝影師。
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