adroitly [
ә'drɒitli]
ad. 灵巧地, 敏捷地
- She has not used chopsticks adroitly.
她用筷子还不熟练。 - He piloted the car adroitly through the traffic.
他熟练地驾车穿过来往的车辆。 - He displayed the cigarette holder grandly on every occasion and had learned to manipulate it adroitly.
他学会了一套用手灵巧地摆弄烟嘴的动作,一有机会就要拿它炫耀一番。
adroitly[ adv ]
with adroitness; in an adroit manner
<adv.all>
he handled the situation adroitly
Adroitly \A*droit"ly\, adv.
In an adroit manner.
- Khamenei and Rafsanjani have adroitly outmaneuvered the radicals in recent weeks.
- And the proximity to Mexico, so adroitly used by illegal aliens and drug runners, also makes shopping and sightseeing convenient for the Winter Texans.
- He does draw a $1,000-a-day salary, has profited nicely from personal transactions with the company and has traded Texas Air shares in the market adroitly.
- At the urging of Andrew Card, a former Republican legislator in Massachusetts and a former Reagan White House aide, the Bush national campaign has used Massachusetts adroitly to keep Dukakis on the defensive.
- Economist Barry Bosworth of the liberal-oriented Brookings Institution said Bush's accusations about Dole are specious, but said the vice president adroitly played to an issue of great sensitivity to people worried about their pocketbooks.
- A campaign manager adroitly compares the campaign to Mr. Roh's efforts to overcome the handicap of a broken finger that prevented him from gripping a tennis racket.
- "Over the years we've managed to avoid the malaise of the oil industry very adroitly, and I think we'll do likewise" in the HLT realm, Mr. Russell says.
- Added to this are excellent supporting performances by Bette Henritze as a mousy secretary and Paxton Whitehead as a pompous, befuddled lawyer, all adroitly directed by Michael Blakemore.
- At first, Mr. Gorbachev moved adroitly to turn the incident to his advantage, creating an impression of decisiveness by firing both his defense minister and air-defense chief.
- The 35-member Sinfonia played adroitly with a big, lush sound that belied its size.