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 finesse [fi'nes]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 策略, 手段, (桥牌中的)飞牌

vt. 用计谋处理, 出小牌

vi. 用计谋处理, 出小牌


  1. Paul handled the meeting with great finesse.
    保罗极其巧妙地掌握着会议。
  2. If their spade break4-1, I still have the diamond finesse to fall back on.
    如果他们的黑桃是4-1,分配,我就让一墩给那Q。
  3. Paul played the sonata with great finesse.
    保罗以丰富的技巧弹奏了这部奏鸣曲。


finesse
[ noun ]
subtly skillful handling of a situation
<noun.attribute>


Finesse \Fi`nesse"\ (? or ?), n. [F., fr. fin fine. See {Fine},
a.]
1. Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice;
stratagem.

This is the artificialest piece of finesse to
persuade men into slavery. --Milton.

2. (Whist Playing) The act of finessing. See {Finesse}, v.
i., 2.


Finesse \Fi*nesse"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Finessed}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Finessing}.]
1. To use artifice or stratagem. --Goldsmith.

2. (Whist Playing) To attempt, when second or third player,
to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when
an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its
being held by the opponent yet to play.

  1. Some Japanese investors own the stocks for 10 minutes or less, and just want to appear as holders of record on the right day to finesse certain Japanese accounting rules.
  2. This he managed with consummate finesse, allowing no assertion and no fact to go unchallenged.
  3. Yet anyone who presides over a political party as long as Wilson must have a talent to finesse. At the final cabinet meeting Tony Benn tried to take a photograph of the outgoing leader, but was deterred.
  4. As the mad, fly-eating Renfield, Eric Frederic gives a fine display of neurosis and pirouettes, and I was impressed by Rinat Imaev (a Bulgarian danseur) who played and danced Jonathan Harker with real finesse.
  5. Step out on to the gymnastics floor and achieve just a fraction of the grace and finesse of those small, young people trailing satin ribbons behind them.
  6. Now it more closely resembles football as played by Joe Montana and the San Francisco 49ers: Speed, finesse and game-breaking plays.
  7. One rarely gets a Herod of such finesse.
  8. My answer is yes." But presiding over the construction of a new system, without benefit of a blueprint, has required more finesse than leading the demolition of the old one.
  9. For instance, Mr. Salinas recently used military force rather than negotiating finesse to bust a recalcitrant union at Mexico's largest mine.
  10. The races may lack finesse, but their very existence is a surprise win in the long-odds prosperity stakes.
  11. "The whole system is designed around total balance and finesse," said Thill.
  12. Today's technique is based on pace rather than placement, on power instead of finesse.
  13. He elicits string playing of extraordinary finesse at the crux of Act two, and the work's melodic poetry comes over strongly.
  14. Americans have been saying that Japan wins because it plays by a different set of rules, but Japan will find it harder to finesse the laws of economics.
  15. After ten years the company was a world-beater. Since then it has, astonishingly, improved, in matter of physical finesse, and adaptability to the demands of many choreographers.
  16. It is about guile, finesse, and the civility to tolerate nincompoops who think it looks ridiculous.
  17. Front-end loader operator Walt Murch manipulated that large machine with infinite finesse, lifting the cervical vertebrae cast so that timbers could be placed underneath, giving the paleontologists room to work as they plastered the bottom holes.
  18. This blunt social comedy is treated dependably and wittily by The Birmingham Rep in a production which balances the finesse and the force of Brighouse's message. The play teems with Brighouse's own family connections and with familiar Lancashire life.
  19. 'But he lacks a little in finesse.
  20. For all of his salesmanship finesse, Pistner also has a reputation for a brash, impersonal management style that has alienated both top brass and sales clerks.
  21. But Mr. Banter says that what he lacks in power, he makes up for in pulling finesse, if there is such a thing.
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