nimble
英语
词源
源自中古英语 nymyl、nemel、nemyll、nymell (“敏捷的，迅捷的；准备就绪的；有能的”)，古英语 nǣmel (“善于学习的”)和古英语 numol (“能够拿稳的”)的合并形式，两者均源自niman (“拿，取”) + -el、-ol (联想后缀)，等价于nim + -le。对比德语 nehmen、哥特语 𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (niman)、古诺尔斯语 nema (“拿”)。详见nim。
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形容词
nimble（比较级 nimbler，最高级 nimblest）
- 擅长抓取的
- nimble fingers
- 抓东西灵活的指头
- 迅捷的，敏捷的
- He was too nimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp.
- 袭击者不敌他灵活的动作，他轻松挣脱了袭击者的手。
- 1988, The Economist (volume 306, issues 7532-7539, page 13)
- Attempts to introduce versions of "market communism" — in China, Hungary or Yugoslavia — have shown how hard it is to make mainly state-owned economies as nimble as mainly private ones.
- 机敏谨慎的
- She has a nimble mind and can improvise in any situation.
- 她非常机敏，在任何场合都能随机应变。
- 2020年5月20日，“Merriman praised over handling of TSC's 'virtual' transition”，出自 Rail, 页号12:
- "It requires you to be flexible and nimble in your thinking and Huw has already demonstrated that," said Greenwood, [...]
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反义词
- (敏捷)： sluggish
衍生词汇
动词
nimble（第三人称单数简单现在时 nimbles，现在分词 nimbling，一般过去时及过去分词 nimbled）
- (不及物) 敏捷地移动
- 2012，Caspar Henderson， The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, 页号72:
- Their teeth are regularly and assiduously cleaned by shrimp that nimble in and out of the moray's mouth like ballet dancers in the jaws of a mechanical stage dragon.
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异序词
- milneb
