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词汇释义

jaunty  /ˈdʒɔːntɪ/  TEM8    GRE

adj, If you describe someone or something as jaunty, you mean that they are full of confidence and energy. 信心十足的，精力充沛的

外刊例句

1. There are marital jokes, impish rhymes and wilful metaphors that strain, in their jaunty inventiveness, against the harrow­ing subject matter.(The Guardian - Books)

2.In short, the office is a don's delight, and Mr Moynihan large sherry glass in hand, jaunty bow-tie not quite matching the breast-pocket handkerchief suits it perfectly. In this section A new but risky sort of war To fight or not to fight Dial one yourself Incident at Rifle River The incomparable Daniel Patrick ReprintsBut what of the politics?(The Economist)

3. He entered No 10 wearing the straw boater of jaunty comical arrogance; he recently tried the itchy woollen hat of humble public servitude; and now he wanders between micro-managed photo-opportunities – a milk-guzzling lamb, a paint-smeared child – without any hat at all, bareheaded in the storms.(The Guardian - Opinion)

4. Mario and Sonic made sense to western players, but lurking just beyond these palatable mascots was a world of entertainment too strange to ever secure an official European release: fascinating, crazy games full of talking octopuses and jaunty tunes.(The Guardian - Travel)

5. Unless they're cheering the intruder, who did cut quite the dash with his jaunty orange tie.(The Guardian)

6. On a larger scale, they have a 20-foot (six-metre) gilded section of a Pennsylvania movie theatre façade, period rooms with their chandeliers, wall panelling and rugs intact and a 1920s artist-designed children's bedroom with inventive furniture (such as the jaunty chair pictured).Quality matters, rarity is appreciated but beauty gives way to documentary value and particular era.(The Economist)

7. The tracks include two stand-out performances from Quarteto Em Cy, a girl group branded in the Brill Building mode, including the jaunty "Amaralina .The collection runs hot to cold, ardent red to lonesome blue it soothes and abrades.(The Economist)

8. For them, explosions are as common as a cock-crow. De-miners are rarely killed, but if they wear their helmets at a jaunty angle, the shock from a blast can break their necks.(The Economist)

9. An even greater distance divides the shadowy father of the early Christian church from the homes and department stores of America and northern Europe, where Santa now occupies centre-stage in the Christmas narrative, edging out the Nativity. This metamorphosis provides the theme for Jeremy Seal's jaunty, readable travelogue-cum-biography.(The Economist)

词汇搭配

jaunty + angle, tune, walk

词汇来源

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.

近义词

debonaire, rakish, spiffy, raffish, dapper, dashing

反义词

depressed, serious, sedate

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