The chairman's felicitous anecdote set everyone at ease. 主席说了得体的掌故使每个人心情轻松。
Except for the felicitous pretense of deafness I had not tried to pretend anything. 除了巧妙地假装耳聋之外,我一点也没有弄虚作假。
The three were eating breakfast on the terrace, a thousand and one felicitous birds in the garden trees. 三个人正在阳台上吃早餐,花园里的树上有千百只欢唱的鸟儿。
felicitous
[ adj ]
exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style
<adj.all> a felicitous speaker
marked by good fortune
<adj.all> a felicitous life a happy outcome
Felicitous \Fe*lic"i*tous\, a. Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skillful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate.
Felicitous words and images. --M. Arnold. -- {Fe*lic"i*tous*ly}, adv. -- {Fe*lic"i*tous*ness}, n.
How it is possible to stage Saint-Saens' witty, charming, infinitely felicitous score without a single atom of its many virtues rubbing off on to the dance, I do not know, but Mr Araiz has succeeded.
They note the easily felicitous yet sturdy prose; also that the narrative is packed with incident, and that almost every incident is memorable.