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finesse

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++fi·nesse1 /fəˈnes/ noun [uncountable]  GOOD ATif you do something with finesse, you do it with a lot of skill and style 手段,策略,手腕 Dario played the sonata with great finesse. 达里奥以高超的技艺弹奏了这首奏鸣曲。
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finesseThe stats make her a strange hybrid of power and finesse, a combination that she resisted for a while.The game was a hard slog with no finesse, despite the promotion aspirations of both sides.Flame control: a certain amount of finesse is required to fine tune the heat output.It is the trick of the big-stage musical number but applied to circus with finesse and much tongue-in-cheek humour.
finesse2 verb [transitive]  1. DEAL WITHto handle a situation well, but in a way that is slightly deceitful 用巧妙的〔但略带欺骗性的〕手段处理2. American EnglishGOOD AT to do something with a lot of skill and style 巧妙地做
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finesseRoberts finessed his arrival, speaking to Fernandez privately about their shared responsibilities.Kemp uses his creativity to find excuses which are meant to finesse problematic moments.Mr Chen's approach is to finesse the problem of reunification through a mixture of goodwill and verbal subtlety.I had a miserable quantitative background and ended up copying some assignments and finessing the rest as best I could.The guard would know he was trying to get away and finesse the whole thing!Somehow, we hoped, when the test finally came, she would be able to finesse the written stuff.
Origin finesse1 (1500-1600) French fin; → FINE1
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finesse
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finesse1 /fəˈnes, fɪˈnes/ noun [uncountable]
 Date: 1500-1600
 Language: French
 Origin: fin; fine1
if you do something with finesse, you do it with a lot of skill and style:
    Dario played the sonata with great finesse.

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finesse2 verb [transitive]
1. to handle a situation well, but in a way that is slightly deceitful
2. American English to do something with a lot of skill and style


fi·nesseBrE /fɪˈnes/ 🔊NAmE /fɪˈnes/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] great skill in dealing with people or situations, especially in a delicate way 手腕;策略;手段
fi·nesseBrE /fɪˈnes/ 🔊NAmE /fɪˈnes/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they finesse BrE /fɪˈnes/ 🔊 NAmE /fɪˈnes/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it finesses BrE /fɪˈnesɪz/ 🔊 NAmE /fɪˈnesɪz/ 🔊past simple finessed BrE /fɪˈnest/ 🔊 NAmE /fɪˈnest/ 🔊past participle finessed BrE /fɪˈnest/ 🔊 NAmE /fɪˈnest/ 🔊 -ing form finessing BrE /fɪˈnesɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /fɪˈnesɪŋ/ 🔊(especially NAmE) ~ sth to deal with sth in a way that is clever but slightly dishonest 用策略对付某事to finesse a deal略施小计达成一桩交易~ sth to do sth with a lot of skill or style 巧妙地做;派头十足地做