niceties

英 [ˈnaɪsɪtiz]

美 [ˈnaɪsɪtiz]

n.  细节; 细微的差别; 精确; 准确; 严密; 仔细
nicety的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (尤指好的礼仪或得体的举止方面的)细节，小节
  The niceties ofa situation are its details, especially with regard to good manners or the appropriate behaviour for that situation.
  1. By the end of term, girls will have learnt the niceties of dinner party conversation...
     到学期结束，女生们将完成对晚宴谈话礼仪细节的学习。
  2. He wasted no time with social niceties.
     他没有在社交礼仪细节上浪费时间。
  3. ...the language of diplomatic niceties.
     外交礼仪细节语言

双语例句

• You spend little of your time in reflection – or sometimes in asocial niceties.
  你很少花时间来反思&或者偶尔花时间在自以为是的细枝末节中。
• Now there is no more time for niceties.
  现在没有更多时间来吹毛求疵了。
• Does he enjoy the job, I ask, instantly realising how silly the question must sound to someone born into a role where, despite his golf hobby, duty crowds out niceties such as work-life balance.
  我问他是否喜欢这份工作，但随即意识到，这个问题在他听来该有多么愚蠢尽管热爱高尔夫，但他天生就担负着的使命，让他无暇享受工作与生活平衡之类的美好事物。
• He became enmeshed in legal niceties.
  他被法律的细节所纠缠。
• We don't bother with all the social niceties here.
  我们不理会这里的一切繁文缛节。
• This was no time for bureaucratic niceties; it was a moment of peril.
  这不是体现官僚谨慎的时候，而是一个危险时刻。
• Having a bosom friend is one of the niceties of life.
  得一知己乃人生一大乐事。
• Sometimes I just want to stand up and scream in the middle of a restaurant, just because I'm tired of social niceties.
  有时候我在餐厅吃饭时真想站起来大喊一声，因为我厌倦了应酬。
• Many scientists simply did not have time to school themselves in diplomatic niceties.
  很多科学家根本没有时间用外交场合的那种很讲究的细微末节来约束自己。
• After the first month of adjustment, I learned that the place offered the niceties of home without the watchful eye of parents.
  在适应了新生活后的第一个月，我就体会到这个地方提供了一个没有父母监督的美好家园。