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 dexterity [dek'steriti]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 灵巧, 机敏

  1. A juggler needs great dexterity.
    玩杂耍的人必须手指非常灵巧。
  2. The negotiations will call for considerable dexterity.
    进行这些谈判需要相当圆滑的手腕。
  3. Manual skill and dexterity in the execution of tricks; sleight of hand.
    手法敏捷变戏法时手法的熟练和敏捷;戏法


dexterity
[ noun ]
adroitness in using the hands
<noun.cognition>


Dexterity \Dex*ter"i*ty\, n. [L. dexteritas, fr. dexter: cf. F.
dext['e]rit['e]. See {Dexter}.]
1. Right-handedness.

2. Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease
in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as,
dexterity with the chisel.

In youth quick bearing and dexterity. --Shak.

3. Readiness in the use or control of the mental powers;
quickness and skill in managing any complicated or
difficult affair; adroitness.

His wisdom . . . was turned . . . into a dexterity
to deliver himself. --Bacon.

He had conducted his own defense with singular
boldness and dexterity. --Hallam.

Syn: Adroitness; activity; nimbleness; expertness; skill;
cleverness; art; ability; address; tact; facility;
aptness; aptitude; faculty. See {Skill}.

  1. But the machines' oversized paddle controls and large white-on-black graphics were deliberately included to help people with limited dexterity and vision.
  2. "Education is the opportunity, through studying a variety of subjects, to gain information and the dexterity to use your wits and your expression.
  3. For many occupations, there are standardized criteria for how much strength, dexterity and endurance it takes to do a job.
  4. Few artists catch the life and movement, the very spirit of the party with such wit and light dexterity. Geoffrey Humphries is another remarkable draughtsman of the figure, which remains his principal subject, in life-painting and portraiture.
  5. Until then Hofmann's situation is like that of a musician who has extraordinary manual dexterity and a deep understanding of his medium, but who can never quite get beyond making music in a secondhand way.
  6. But the elderly generally retain manual dexterity and can handle problem solving better, so those abilities were considered in designing new closures.
  7. In Novella Nelson's production, Taylor's hilarious and harrowing reinvention of the family drama for contemporary urban Black life exploded with imagination and verbal dexterity.
  8. Miss Sutherland, with her extraordinarily strong and pure high notes and amazing dexterity in trills and runs, quickly became an international sensation.
  9. And she suggests that compensatory skills are developed in body and mind to make up for loss of quickness or dexterity.
  10. "Impairment in an area like that can be a big problem." Why not test for dexterity and acuity, then, instead of evidence of past indulgence?
  11. In the Liszt Tarantella he achieved remarkable feats of dexterity and filigree fleetness.
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